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Forbes
A common criticism of clean energy technologies like wind and solar is that they impose undue costs on consumers and the wider economy. A new working paper from the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute points out as much, stating that renewable energy technologies and the state-level policies that support them, have resulted in $125 billion in added electricity costs nationwide over nearly a decade.
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CFA Society Chicago
Friday, May 10, 2019
12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
CFA Society Chicago, 33 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 910, Chicago, IL 60602
The CFA Society Chicago Job Seekers Forum series provides members with potential new opportunities and resources to find employment. The forum encourages open dialogue and will have a member of the Professional Development Advisory Group as a host.
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CFA Society Chicago
Saturday, May 18, 2019
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, 2233 S Martin L. King Dr., Chicago, IL 60616
Now that you have prepared and practiced for the CFA® exam, you are ready to perform and put your skills and knowledge to the test. The Live Schweser Mock Exam is as close to the actual CFA exam in format, difficulty and length as we can make it.
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CFA Society Chicago
Thursday, May 23, 2019
5:00 p.m.
Location: TBD
Join your colleagues and unwind from your work day for a networking happy hour.
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CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor
Dual-class share structures take a lot of heat from practitioners and academics alike. When Snap Inc., was preparing for its initial public offering (IPO) in 2017, CalPERS and other institutional investors harshly criticized the company’s move to create a new share class with no voting power. Similarly, before Lyft went public this year, a group of institutional investors unsuccessfully lobbied its board to abandon a proposed dual-class structure.
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Forbes
Emily Klein admits she had a bad case of the jitters. With four of her M.B.A. classmates at the University of Vermont, the 26-year-old found herself on a stage in front of an audience of impact investors boiling down a couple of hundred hours of work into a brief seven-minute presentation on May 2.
“The opportunity to present in front of 300 people in the industry who had worked on this for many years was definitely nerve-wracking,” says Klein. “Beyond the stage jitters, I was confident in my team and my friends. So while I was definitely nervous, it was a mix of excitement and nerves.”
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Financial Times
Nancy Prior is one of the most powerful bond managers in the world. As president of Fidelity Investments’ fixed-income group she oversees $1.1 trillion — a pool of capital that ranks alongside BlackRock, Pimco and Vanguard — yet many people in the industry have not heard of her.
The 17-year company veteran keeps a low profile compared with peers such as one-time bond king Bill Gross or DoubleLine’s Jeffrey Gundlach. Search the web and all you will find is a smattering of press mentions and TV interviews: Providing soundbites and courting celebrity is not Ms Prior’s style.
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Los Angeles Times
As the global recession deepened in 2008, Tom Barrack was in his element. Over the course of two decades, the chief executive of Los Angeles-based Colony Capital had carved out a reputation as a real estate investor who placed winning bets when others ran scared. So, at the bidding of a longtime associate, Barrack set off for Las Vegas to meet Michael Jackson.
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Chicago Tribune
These are heady days for dividend lovers. Dozens of companies with excellent track records are providing investors with annual payouts that exceed yields on five- and even 10-year Treasury bonds.
But are dividend-paying stocks really superior? Had you invested solely in stocks that make regular payouts to shareholders, you would have missed some of the market's biggest successes. Alphabet, Amazon.com, Berkshire Hathaway and Facebook — four of the six largest companies by market capitalization — pay no dividends. Rather than handing money to their shareholders ever
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Chicago Inno
Chicago tech and startup companies raised at least $97 million in venture capital throughout the month of April, according to data compiled by Chicago Inno.
The month’s financings were down compared to March, when Chicago startups raised at least $136 million. April’s fundings were led by Fast Radius, which raised $48 million and Hireology, which raised $27 million.
Below are 11 Chicago tech and startup companies that raised money in April.
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Crain's Chicago Business
Chicago's two big global financial exchange companies, CME Group and Cboe, both reported this week that first-quarter earnings suffered due to a decline in volatility.
CME’s Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange, as well as Cboe’s Chicago Board Options Exchange, benefit from volatile swings in market prices because that encourages investors and commercial entities to seek to protect their exposures via the companies’ futures and options contracts.
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Cook County Record
The city of Chicago has filed suit against the Illinois state Comptroller’s office and pension boards for its police officers and other city workers, accusing the pension funds and the comptroller of wrongly intercepting state grant funds otherwise owed to the city because the pension funds say the city has shorted its pension contributions.
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Bloomberg via Crain's Chicago Business
Chicago billionaire Ken Griffin declared his commitment to Chicago, saying he wouldn’t let the city’s crime, political cronyism or other problems drive him or his family out.
In a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg TV from the sidelines of the finance-focused Milken Institute conference in Beverly Hills, California, Griffin told anchor Erik Schatzker that he would stay in Chicago despite several “incidents of gang battles with guns” near his children’s school on the city’s South Side.
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