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Chicago Sun Times
Phil Kadner was on the money with his assessment of the tax problems of our state.
A key factor in all taxation is to make it fair. Unfortunately as Kadner pointed out, those who are in the position to pay the most toward government goods and services control the government to manipulate the tax laws so that they can pay small amounts or nothing at all. Under the latest federal tax revisions, the corporate tax was reduced from 35% to 21%. In actuality, hardly any corporations were paying 35% taxes. Most paid around 19%, so now they will pay significantly less.
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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 Society Chicago
Wednesday, June 05, 2019
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Palmer House Hilton, 17 E. Monroe Street, Chicago, IL 60603
Impact investing refers to investments that seek to generate beneficial, measurable social and environmental impact in addition to a financial return.
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CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor
Think back to your education. Remember your university or secondary school days. What did you learn then that you still use today? Does any of it help you in your professional life? And before you moan about how nothing you learned in school has any application in real life, let me assure you that this is not true. All of us are shaped by our education and we all picked up things in school that we still use today. So, try again and think about what you learned.
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GuruFocus.com
Speaking at a recent event at Chicago’s CFA Society, Oaktree Capital founder Howard Marks (Trades, Portfolio) had some remarks on how to invest in a low-return world. Since the financial crash of 2008, central banks around the world have brought down interest rates, forcing investors to take more risks in order to generate an acceptable return on investments. Gone are the days when Treasury bonds could yield between 4% and 5%. For the last 10 years, investors have had to look to riskier assets in lieu of fixed income securities. How does one prosper in such an environment? Marks has the answer.
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City A.M.
The threat of cybersecurity and data-privacy attacks is under-estimated and growing, and organisations and individuals should proceed with extreme care in respect of digital information security, according to a Switzerland-based expert.
David Basin, Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, used a seminar at the 72nd CFA Institute Annual Conference to urge the audience to exercise “caution and conservatism” with online security and privacy.
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AsianInvestor
Asia’s tech-savvy financial experts are world leaders in adopting fintech solutions but for superior investment advice, clients are looking for human intelligence, coupled with machine learning.
Fintech is changing the landscape of investment management. In 2017, global funding for the sector was estimated to be around $31 billion, a more than tenfold increase from $2.8 billion five years according to KPMG’s Pulse of Fintech report.
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Chicago Tribune via Associated Press News
The state of Illinois should spend $33 million for community leaders to spread word about the 2020 census, the Chicago Urban League said in a report.
Illinois could lose billions of dollars in federal funding and one or two congressional seats if there’s an undercount next year, the Chicago Tribune reported. An undercount happens when the census counts a smaller number of people or homes in a population than shown by an independent estimate.
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Chicago Sun Times
What would it take to retire at 50 or 40, or even 30? It seems almost unrealistic to spill ink over that idea when many Americans are already so behind on saving for retirement.
But there’s a movement growing in popularity, especially among younger adults, that preaches extreme saving, side hustles, long work hours and aggressive investing to achieve FIRE – financial independence/retire early – on an accelerated timeframe, often within 10 to 15 years.
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USAPP American Politics and Policy
Recently, President Trump and Democratic Congressional leaders met to discuss a $2 trillion deal to rebuild and modernize the nation’s infrastructure. While the talks did not specify how projects will be financed, private finance capital is well-positioned to play a central role in a public works program given strong bipartisan support for public-private partnerships (P3s).
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Chicago Sun Times
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s chief financial officer said she was asked to stay on under Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot, but declined the offer, paving the way for her counterpart at Chicago Public Schools to make the jump to City Hall.
“When Mayor Emanuel asked me to take the job four years ago, I told him I’m from the private sector and that’s why I always planned on returning to the private sector,” said Carole Brown, a chief proponent of Emanuel’s stalled plan for $10 billion in pension borrowing.
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WMAQ-TV
The terms "Illinois budget" and "extra revenue" are rarely heard in the same sentence. But now that they are, "spending agreement" is the elusive terminology.
Lawmakers and Gov. J.B. Pritzker learned that the state's income tax take in April was a stunning $4 billion , 38% more than the year before and some $1.5 billion more than projected.
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Bisnow
Chicago has undergone a tremendous demographic shift since the 1990s. Former industrial districts like Fulton Market now teem with thousands of office workers each day, many of whom live nearby in glittering new apartment towers. Downtown itself transformed into a true residential neighborhood with grocery stores and entertainment venues like Millennium Park.
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Crain's Chicago Business
CME Group, the 171-year-old Chicago company that operates the largest futures exchange in the world, rolled out its most successful new product ever this week.
The company said that in the first four days of trading this week market participants bought and sold nearly 2 million of its new micro e-mini futures contracts; there are four of them, with each tracking one of the four big U.S. stock indexes. The contracts are smaller versions of CME’s popular e-mini contract, which was rolled out in the late 1990s as a smaller version of a larger contract tracking the S&P 500 stock index.
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