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CFA Institute Enterprising Investor
What does it take to succeed in business and investing?
Differentiation is among the key ingredients. To be successful in your business, you need to offer a product that differs from the competition in a way that clients recognize as added value.
If you want to beat the market as an investor, the first thing you need to do is something different from all other investors.
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CFA Chicago Society
Nov. 14, 2019
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
The Vault
33 N. LaSalle Street (Lower Level)
Many investors believe early stage biotech companies are a gamble. As a result, most managers avoid the industry entirely or employ a diversified basket approach for exposure, hoping that a few big winners can offset losing positions. We believe a better approach exists to capitalize on the exciting opportunity-set in therapeutics over the next decades.
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CFA Society Chicago
Nov. 18, 2019
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Vault
33 N. LaSalle Street (Lower Level)
Looking to work in investment management as a portfolio manager or research analyst? Realistically, jumping directly from education into a decision-making position in asset management is becoming increasingly difficult. As the investment management business consolidates, especially in Chicago, anyone aspiring to enter the field needs to be creative and open about the path they follow to reach that goal as the route is often circuitous.
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CFA Society Chicago
Nov. 20, 2019
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
The Chicago Club
81 E. Van Buren
Related Midwest, the Chicago office of Related Companies, is the city’s preeminent developer of luxury condominium and rental homes, affordable housing communities and mixed-use properties. Known for innovative, market-defining projects, including 500 Lake Shore Drive, OneEleven and Landmark West Loop, Related Midwest is also recognized for its leadership in property management, historic preservation, urban planning, environmental sustainability and community hiring.
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MarketWatch
Any way you slice it, investors are crazy for fixed-income exchange-traded funds.
An analysis from CFRA offers some perspective: from the beginning of the year through late October, $121 billion had flowed into bond ETFs, already beating the $101 billion they collected throughout all of 2018. Those inflows made up more than half of all money coming into ETFs this year, even though fixed-income funds account for only a fraction of the $4 trillion ETF universe.
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No matter the depth of your accounting background, you can become a versatile business professional with an online master’s in accounting at Gies Business. Earn a certificate or full degree. Through our highly engaging, online, global classrooms, you’ll learn to gather and analyze critical information for informed strategic decisions
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Forbes
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton is not happy with the limited access retail investors have to private companies. “If the growth opportunities have shifted… into our private markets and ordinary investors don’t have access to them, that’s not good,” Clayton said recently. “The question is, what do we do about it?” he asked, suggesting in very general terms “appropriately structured funds.”
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The Wall Street Journal
Humble CEOs don’t inspire much confidence among financial analysts—but that might be good news for people who invest in the CEOs’ companies.
A new study accepted for publication in the Strategic Management Journal found that analysts tend to significantly underestimate the earnings potential of companies run by humble chief executive officers. That leads to artificially low earnings forecasts from the analysts, which the firms can then more easily meet or beat.
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MarketWatch
Ray Dalio, the founder of hedge-fund behemoth Bridgewater Associates, believes investors haven’t necessarily been investing on a firm footing and that’s a condition that will eventually have to be rectified. The prominent investor, during a particularly downbeat CNBC interview on Tuesday, suggested investors are flush with cash because of monetary policy but haven’t been discerning about selecting investment strategies.
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The Wall Street Journal
Nervous investors have socked $3.4 trillion away in cash. But stocks are rising and their nerves are calming, leading bulls to view the huge cash pile as fuel that could drive markets higher still.
Assets in money-market funds have grown by $1 trillion over the last three years to their highest level in around a decade, according to Lipper data.
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Kiplinger
The end of 2019 is in sight, but there is still plenty of time left to make a number of financial moves that will help improve your retirement savings, reduce your tax bill and benefit your community.
You don’t have to be wealthy to get tangible benefits. If you have a job, you can contribute to a retirement savings plan, while any parent or grandparent can contribute to a child’s college education plan. And each group can receive tax breaks.
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