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Chicago Tribune
Are you quick to pull the trigger when you think the stock market is going to attack the money you've worked so hard to amass?
Then your behavior is probably costing you a fortune, and you might want to hesitate the next time you think you should grab your money and run for safety.
Boston financial research firm Dalbar has recently quantified what nervous investors have cost themselves.
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CFA Chicago
Special situations are corporate actions which could reveal an undervalued security and hence an investment opportunity. Some examples of Special Situations are spinoffs, liquidations, tender offers, restructurings, bankruptcy exits etc.
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CFA Chicago
After a strong run since the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the stock market has been "violently flat" since 2015. As markets digest the beginning of a Fed rate hike cycle, negative rates globally and an unprecedented political uncertainty, we're likely to see continued bouts of volatility.
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CFA Chicago
The Investment Exchange Forum is a stock-picking meeting of 10-15 CFA Chicago members. Each meeting features actionable ideas by presenting volunteers and a lively discussion of the topic at hand. The IEF is both an opportunity to learn how others present investment ideas concisely and a chance to practice stock pitches.
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CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor
A lot of retirees love the prospect of the U.S. Federal Reserve raising interest rates. With higher rates, there is less of a need to go beyond the risk curve to achieve a desired nominal return bogey, since a simple savings account should offer higher deposit interest rates.
But do higher interest rates actually lead to higher returns on savings?
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USA Today
Tech giant Microsoft said Monday that it had reached a deal to acquire professional social networking site LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in cash.
The deal values LinkedIn at $196 per share, representing a 49.5 percent premium over Friday's closing price.
The companies said their respective boards had unanimously approved the deal. LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner will keep the title and report to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
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ChicagoInno
It's one thing to raise venture capital. It's another thing to make good on that investment.
A recent PitchBook analysis found that Chicago companies offer the highest venture capital returns of any startup hub in the United States.
PitchBook analysts set out to discover which startup hubs had the most success.
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Crain's Chicago Business
Gov. Bruce Rauner has vetoed a bill to provide about $3.9 billion for higher education, mental health treatment and other programs during Illinois' nearly yearlong budget stalemate.
In a letter to lawmakers today, the Republican says Illinois needs "real solutions" to its financial problems.
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Bloomberg via Chicago Tribune
This has been a very noisy few months in terms of the information that investors have to think about.
The U.S elections have been a wild ride — surprising and, in many ways, unprecedented. The odds that Britain will leave the European Union, and all of the negative fallout it might generate, has careened up and down in the polls. The recovery in oil prices, the weakness of corporate earnings, swings in economic data, the Zika virus, Islamic State — all have dominated the news cycle at various times.
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Pensions & Investments
A number of money managers are taking risk off the table across portfolios, moving to a more cautious approach to investment and focusing on capital preservation as tail risks begin to rise. Some also are choosing to avoid assets that are being supported by central banks' extensive monetary policy actions.
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Crain's Chicago Business
The best money is free. A close second is money that finds you.
A Goldman Sachs investment fund came to SMS Assist with an offer to invest $150 million. Although his facilities maintenance company is profitable and he didn't necessarily need the cash, CEO Mike Rothman took Goldman up on the offer.
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Barron's
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, young Laertes was advised. In today’s world of zero or negative interest rates, to be a lender leaves one victim to what may be described as a Polonius assault.
“For a loan oft loses both itself and a friend,” the Bard wrote in Hamlet. Yet in today’s capital markets, lenders seem more than willing to lose by investing in bonds with negative yields — which by definition return less than the original investment.
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