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Crain's Chicago Business
Adams Street Partners, one of the biggest asset management firms in the city, gets a new leader this summer, and he has a fresh business plan in mind.
Jeff Diehl, who will become managing partner in July, shepherded six firm investments to IPOs last year. He is aiming for more of that type of venture investing, as opposed to the firm's mainstay of investing with other managers.
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CFA Chicago
In the first part of this course, we will present a detailed primer on analyzing banks and their financial statements. Balance sheet based companies, such as banks, play by different rules and methodologies based on the unique nature of their business. Focus is placed on our commercial banks financial statements primer which dives deep into a bank's unique financial statement terminology and drivers.
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CFA Chicago
In today's investment industry, putting your head down, working hard, and expecting to move forward is not always sufficient. To succeed, you must put the same level of energy into strategically mapping your career as you do into daily investment research.
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CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor
Back in the 1930s, an up-and-coming 26-year-old named Ronald Coase took on and largely vanquished the theory of one of his mentors, an older economist named Frank Knight. Coase went on to win a Nobel while Knight faded into near obscurity.
It’s time for a rematch.
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Reuters
A bill to give Chicago some financial breathing room by restructuring its contributions to retirement funds for city public safety workers headed to a final vote in the Illinois Legislature after passing the full House and a Senate committee on Saturday.
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Pensions&Investments
New money going into global tactical asset allocation is slowing to a trickle after years of substantial inflows. For the first quarter of this year, the strategy attracted only $1.74 billion in net inflows, vs. $14.4 billion for the first quarter of 2014, according to eVestment LLC, Marietta, Georgia.
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POLITICO
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who was indicted for allegedly covering up the withdrawal of $1.7 million in hush money, embarked on what appeared to be a lucrative post-congressional career that involved multiple sources of income.
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Chicago Tribune
BMO Financial Group, the Canadian owner of Chicago's second-biggest bank, is in cost-cutting mode that will include "things like thinning out the management ranks," it told analysts. "We're keeping a close check on expense growth," Chief Executive Bill Downe said while discussing second-quarter results.
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Chicago Tribune
In a measure of how serious Chicago's financial woes have become, the city will pay unusually high interest rates on a $674 million borrowing deal reached — the first since a major debt rating agency lowered Chicago's creditworthiness to junk status this month. A Tribune analysis estimated Chicago is paying at least $70 million more to borrow the money than if the city were rated at the higher level it was just 15 months ago.
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Forbes
Nominal wages in 2015 have finally showed some substantive increases for the first time since the Great Recession.
An important question for economists is why it has taken so long for wages to rise, despite the rapid improvements in the labor market.
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