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CFA Institute Enterprising Investor
We’re all familiar with the concept of return on investment (ROI). It’s something companies are always evaluating as they try to determine whether the money they put into various parts of their businesses is going to pay off. But ROI can mean so much more than that, particularly if the fear of negative ROI is holding a business back.
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CFA Chicago Society
Sept. 10, 2019
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
The Metropolitan
233 South Wacker Dr.
Join us for our September Distinguished Speaker Series luncheon on September 10. As Lincoln’s Chief Executive Officer of the Americas and a key driver of the firm’s growth from its beginnings, Brown has been instrumental in building its global footprint and a highly desirable culture that prioritizes attracting, retaining and engaging top talent at all levels.
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CFA Chicago Society
Sept. 12, 2019
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Palmer House Hilton
17 E. Monroe Street
Learn about the technologies of space exploration, the geopolitical landscape, and who will be the big winners and losers in the new space race.
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CFA Chicago Society
Sept. 17, 2019
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
University Club of Chicago
76 E. Monroe Street
The changing investment landscape and how investment platforms and interfaces need to evolve.
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Institutional Investor
Nearly 200,000 people braved the Charted Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute’s exams last June — a record high, according to data released Tuesday.
There were 4,149 more test takers for the first level than in June 2018, but just 38 additional passes. The level-one failure rate for hit a six-year high at 59 percent, data show.
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Built-in Chicago
You might not have heard for DFIN — but most of the companies on the Fortune 500 have. The Chicago-based company provides end-to-end risk and compliance solutions that help businesses manage their portfolios and analyze their data using AI and other forms of automation.
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ThinkAdvisor
The CFA Institute is seeing growth in the number of women taking its internationally recognized three-level Chartered Financial Analyst exam program, with Australia seeing the highest increase, 23%, in test-takers this year compared to 2018.
Over the past five-years, the number of female test takers in the CFA Program has more than doubled, and now accounts for 39% of candidates.
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Crain's Chicago Business
Soon before she’s set to deliver a speech on how to close a whopping city budget deficit, Mayor Lori Lightfoot has moved to employ an ever-ready financial cost-cutting tool: a hiring freeze.
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CNBC-TV
U.S. stock futures were pointing to a strong open on Wall Street, after President Donald Trump said at the G-7 summit that China called and said it’s ready to come back to the negotiating table to look for ways to end the yearlong trade war.
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Crain's Chicago Business
Against a backdrop of sexual and workplace harassment in the state capital, one of Illinois' most politically potent corporations is grappling with a #MeToo moment of its own.
According to internal documents obtained by Crain's, Chicago-based Exelon determined that David Fein, the company's senior vice president in charge of state government relations and its most visible executive in Springfield, violated its code of conduct in his interactions with several women at the company.
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Built-In Chicago
The health insurance industry is ripe with opportunity. Centerbridge Partners, a private wealth management firm, announced that it has made a “significant investment” to acquire a stake in health insurance platform GoHealth.
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Kiplinger's via Chicago Tribune
When the market gets jumpy, so do investors. In periods of volatility, anxious stock market investors can be tempted to take money off the table, fearing a potentially major slide in their portfolio.
You can hardly blame investors for wanting to avoid a bad day or two. Consider: From the beginning of the current bull market, stocks in Standard & Poor's 500-stock index have returned an annualized 15.1% (not including dividends).
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Crain's Chicago Business
SpotHero raised $50 million, its largest round of funding yet. The investment also is one of the largest rounds of venture funding for a local company announced recently.
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Dow Jones via Morning Star
The Chicago Fed National Activity Index, a measure of economic activity in the U.S., went into negative territory in July, 2019, driven by production-related indicators after it ticked up above zero before that.
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GuruFocus
Warren Buffett (Trades, Portfolio)’s partner, Charlie Munger (Trades, Portfolio), is widely viewed as one of the most successful and outspoken value investors of all time. Munger and Buffett, both disciples of Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing, share many of the same insights into what attributes are necessary for disciplined, successful long-term investing.
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