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Reuters
A continued surge in interest rates could sink a plan under consideration by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration for a massive bond sale to boost pension funding, a city official said on Thursday. Carole Brown, the city’s chief financial officer, said a securitization was still on the table while she keeps a watchful eye on rates.
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CFA Society Chicago
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
CFA Society Chicago, 33 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 910, Chicago, IL 60602
The Investment Exchange Forum is a stock-picking meeting held by CFA Society 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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CFA Society Chicago
Thursday, November 08, 2018
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
33 N. LaSalle Street, Vault (Lower Level), Chicago, IL 60602
Program Description:
Looking for an additional edge in your investment process? Want to retain more of your research alpha? By changing the paradigm for the implementation process, learn how you can leverage your alpha profiles to build informed execution strategies, ushering in a new era of smart implementation. This will lead ultimately to better portfolio outcomes. In the presentation, we reveal a few practical tips that show how you can save millions of dollars in execution costs.
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CFA Society Chicago
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
JW Marriott, 151 W. Adams Street, Chicago, IL 60603
Program Description:
The questionable accounting, excessive leverage and deficient creditor protections that inflate the private equity bubble.
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CFA Institute Enterprising Investor
The global payments industry is dramatically improving due to technology. Mobile has changed everything. Payments are getting faster and smarter. Payment options are constantly evolving. Competition is intense. And payments are revolutionizing markets in the developing world even faster than in the developed world.
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Bankrate
Does your family talk about investments at the dinner table? If not, you might want to start.
A new report by the FINRA Investor Education Foundation and the CFA Institute brings new light to the investing impact that boomer parents have had on their millennial children. Open conversations of financial and investment knowledge have helped shaped young adults into savvy investors early on — and it’s a conversation that future generations should take note of.
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Chicago Tribune
As Americans head to the polls this month, it's probably safe to say that the outcome of the 2018 midterm elections will be among the most closely watched in memory. But, politics aside, what should investors be on the lookout for?
If history is a guide, Americans can expect a power shift in Congress. But history also shows that whether your party is victorious or not, your portfolio is likely to survive the midterms unscathed — and maybe a little ahead.
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Bloomberg
The heads of Blackstone Group LP and BlackRock Inc. are the latest global business leaders to cancel plans to attend an investment conference in Saudi Arabia in the wake of the mysterious disappearance of a prominent government critic in Turkey, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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Forbes
In most businesses, having an investor can be very beneficial. Being able to leverage an investor's knowledge, expertise, network and capital can really give your business the acceleration it needs to scale quickly.
But how do you get your first investors to believe in you? What are they looking for? When is the right time to approach investors, and where do you find them?
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Chicago Tribune
It’s naive to think Illinois will ever see real pension reform. At least not as long as state politicians continue to get big pensions from the same retirement plans they’re supposed to fix.
It’s a clear conflict of interest. If Illinoisans ever want to see change, they’ll have to demand an end to legislative pensions. Fortunately, the idea isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds.
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