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Chicago Tribune
Jason Baron uses an unusual metric for sizing up stocks: Women. From his perch at U.S. Trust in Boston, Baron works in a small but growing part of the money-management business that's trying to sell the idea that when it comes to investing, gender pays.
The basic argument, backed up by research, is that companies with a relatively high percentage of women in power perform better than those dominated by men.
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CFA Chicago
Kurt A. Summers, Chicago's newest City Treasurer, is the steward of the city's $7 billion dollar investment portfolio and is responsible for maintaining records and accounts of the city's finances while ensuring transparency and accountability for all transactions. Treasurer Summers also serves as an advocate to empower young people, workers and small business owners, as well as programs that promote economic growth and financial education.
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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. In order to keep the quality of the stock picks as high as possible, we encourage attendance by members who are actively involved in investment management.
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Ranked 6th in the U.S. and 33rd globally by Financial Times, the M.S. Finance program at IIT Stuart School of Business in Chicago is a leading choice for professionals looking to pursue careers in the financial markets. Learn more about how a Master’s degree or Certificate program can advance your professional opportunities.
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CFA Chicago
Build a fully integrated financial statement projection model with income statement projections, a self-balancing balance sheet, an automated cash flow statement, and the balancing cash flow sweep/debt schedule. While knowledge of advanced accounting concepts is not required for this course, you should possess knowledge of basic accounting ratios and a basic understanding of how the major financial statements are inter-related.
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The Motley Fool
In most investors' eyes, the stock market gets all the attention. Given how the right stocks can multiply your money many times over, the relative calm of fixed income investments seems boring by comparison. Yet for smart investors who use asset allocation strategies to ensure they have the short-term liquidity they need, making the most of the fixed income market is a key component of your overall investing plan. Let's look at the challenges of fixed income investing with an eye toward helping you earn more from this part of your portfolio.
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CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor
After the hiatus of the credit crunch, when private equity investors were rudely reminded that illiquidity can magnify downside risks, PE is now back in favor, with fundraising at record levels. According to the Towers Watson/Financial Times Global Alternatives Survey 2015, PE assets are catching up with real estate for second place when comparing the assets under management of the top 100 alternative asset managers.
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Crain's Chicago Business
Financial futures guru Richard Sandor has a history of popping out big ideas, and he's got another one.
With backing from Chicago Board Options Exchange parent CBOE Holdings, Sandor announced in a statement the creation of the American Financial Exchange, an electronic marketplace where small and midsized banks — mainly those with about $1 billion to $50 billion in assets — will be able to lend and borrow short-term funds.
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Bloomberg via Chicago Tribune
Remember last February, when former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Greece would leave the euro and that the common currency would collapse? Remember that a month later, investor-philanthropist George Soros said Greece was going down the drain? Or that just this July, the president of the German Institute for Economic Research, Marcel Fratzscher, characterized Greece as a "political and economic catastrophe" that would revert to the drachma in desperation?
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Bloomberg
On a deserted trading floor, at the Tokyo headquarters of a Swiss bank, Tom Hayes sat rapt before a bank of eight computer screens. Collar askew, pale features pinched, blond hair mussed from a habit of pulling at it when he was deep in thought, the British trader was even more disheveled than usual. It was Sept. 15, 2008, and it looked, he would later recall, like the end of the world.
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Bloomberg
While economists are almost equally divided on whether the Federal Reserve will raise U.S. interest rates, the bond market suggests policy makers will wait.
The probability of a move at the Fed’s Sept. 16-17 meeting is about 49 percent, Mohamed A. El-Erian, the chief economic adviser at Allianz SE, wrote in a Bloomberg column. While the U.S. economy is improving, slowing growth elsewhere combined with rising financial-market volatility are reasons to hold off, he wrote.
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Barron's
Howard Marks writes: In 2011, as I was putting the finishing touches on my book The Most Important Thing, I was fortunate to have one of my occasional lunches with Charlie Munger. As it ended and I got up to go, he said something about investing that I keep going back to: “It’s not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.”
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