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Hoodline
Chicago-based insurance company Snapsheet has secured $28 million in Series E funding, according to company database Crunchbase, topping the city’s recent funding headlines. The cash infusion was announced May 20 and led by Tola Capital.
According to its Crunchbase profile, "Snapsheet delivers the best claims experiences globally. We provide unmatched technology and processes that improve customer engagement, provide organizational agility and realize real transformational benefits for more than 75 clients around the world.
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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 Society Chicago
Monday, June 10, 2019
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
The Palmer House Hilton, 17 E. Monroe Street, Chicago, IL 60603
Whether you need to build critical relationships at more senior levels or are positioning yourself to shine so you can be sponsored, Carol’s real-life stories provide the insights into how to build trusted relationships to increase your leadership impact.
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CFA Society Chicago
Thursday, June 13, 2019
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
The Chicago Club, 81 E. Van Buren Street, Chicago, IL 60605
Hear from Northern Trust's new chairman and CEO, Mike O’Grady, on his views on the key themes that are shaping our industry and Northern Trust strategy.
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Forbes
Inside a four-story, sumptuously restored 19th-century town house in the historic Mount Vernon district of Baltimore, three of Wall Street’s best stock pickers are roasting each other in a wood-paneled boardroom as sunlight streams through stained-glass windows.
“Usually when we’re getting rid of something [in the portfolio], we’re getting rid of Kempton’s mistakes,” booms Keith Lee with a laugh, referring to Kempton Ingersol, a Brown Capital Management portfolio manager and the son-in-law of the firm’s CEO and founder, Eddie Brown.
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WCAV-TV
One of Charlottesville's largest employers is making diversity and inclusion a top priority with the creation of a new position.
Dr. Kelli Palmer is CFA Institute's first head of global diversity and inclusion and corporate citizenship.
“I think what we're saying through the commitment to this role to diversity and inclusion is that we care, and we want to be intentional in all the ways that we operate our business to be welcoming and to be maximizing of the value of the individual,” Palmer said.
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The Associated Press
The Illinois General Assembly commenced its spring session in January with a bold directive from new Gov. J.B. Pritzker for a balanced budget, legalized marijuana and sports betting, a revamped income tax system and a multibillion-dollar state construction program.
It enters its final week with most of that work uncompleted.
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Urban Institute via Next City
A new Urban Institute report looked at public, private and mission-driven investment in Chicago’s single-family, multifamily, commercial and industrial real estate from the years 2011 to 2017. The report’s conclusions? Money isn’t going where it’s needed.
Low-poverty neighborhoods received more than four times as much private investment per household than high-poverty neighborhoods, the report found.
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CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor
So why does emotion so often outweigh logic in decision making? Our unconscious mind is a major culprit: It filters out unpleasant information as it is received to reduce the sheer volume of data coming in, according to Richard Taffler and David Tuckett’s research. That means our conscious mind does not always receive all the pertinent information it needs to make the best decision.
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Advisor's Edge
A study conducted in the early 2000s asked MBA students at Johns Hopkins to fill out risk tolerance forms for six different financial firms. The point was to determine how consistently the questionnaires, which the study noted “differ widely” in terms of what was asked, assessed the same person. The answer: not consistently. “It is not appropriate to attempt to assess the personal nature of risk aversion with some arbitrarily designed questions,” the authors concluded.
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Dividend.com
There is truly no shortage of statistics about this generation born between 1981 and 1996, according to Pew Research. With all of the noise, however, sometimes it is hard to cut through the clutter and uncover the real truths about this popular demographic.
While there are certainly many facts about millennials, uncovering the myths about millennials is very important as this generation often gets a bad rap and they really shouldn’t.
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Livewire Markets
Why should investors in smaller companies expect a higher return? What are the risks involved? And what are the opportunities? In this four part series, we set out the historic strong performance of smaller companies, describe the fundamental drivers of their above-market returns and the risks involved. We explain the different risk exposures that create the opportunity to add value through portfolio diversification.
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Seeking Alpha
Renewable energy, however defined, is widely seen as a sustainable and socially responsible (and, if the investing is done right, very profitable) addition to one's portfolio.
Indeed, such entities as the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, an Ohio based research-and-analysis shop, exist to show that renewables are the asset class of the near future and that the wise and nimble will climb aboard.
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ETF Trends
With U.S.-China trade deal negotiations going into a state of uncertainty, investors are seeing volatility return to the capital markets. The latest market movements emphasize the need for smart beta strategies – an extension of the overarching theme for investors to get strategic in 2019.
But what exactly is smart beta?
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