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The Bond Buyer
Chicago’s new sales tax securitization financing structure received AAA ratings from Kroll Bond Rating Agency and Fitch Ratings. S&P Global Ratings assigned its AA rating to the bonds. All three assign a stable outlook. The City Council last month signed off on the creation of the Sales Tax Securitization Corp. with the goal of bypassing the city’s weak bond ratings and its steep yield penalties to lower costs on up to $3 billion of existing sales tax backed and GO bonds.
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ValueWalk
Predicting a market crash is considered a low-win percentage endeavor, but nonetheless Crispin Odey soldiers on. In a September 29 letter to investors, Odey sang a familiar tone, criticizing central bank quantitative easing and warning the bubble will burst. He just doesn’t know when it will happen. He noted investors think the markets could continue higher for a few more years, a view expressed by Carlyle Group founder David Rubenstein at a CFA Society Chicago event Wednesday night.
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CFA Society Chicago
The Investment Exchange Forum is a stock-picking meeting of 10-15 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.
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CFA Society Chicago
Risk management is far more important than is stock selection or average returns in enhancing terminal wealth. Compound returns produce terminal wealth, what the investor consumes, not average returns or measuring performance success relative to a benchmark. Risk management entails mitigating large draw down or tail losses and participating in upside tail gains.
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CFA Society Chicago
Looking for a new job? Want to gather insight on various job search strategies, techniques and skills necessary to land the job you are looking for? The CFA Society Chicago Job Seeker's Forum series is a supportive environment to provide members with potential new opportunities and resources to find employment. The forum will be designed to encourage open dialogue amongst attendees and will have a member of the Professional Development Advisory Group who serves as a host. The cost to attend is free to all CFA Chicago Members and will be limited to 15 people per meeting.
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CFA Institute Enterprising Investor
“The future of finance depends critically on meeting the challenge of gender diversity going forwards,” says Roger Urwin, global head of investment content at Willis Towers and co-founder of the Thinking Ahead Group. That’s all very well, but what research lies behind that statement? And why aren’t there more women in this profession?
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Crain's Chicago Business
After marching higher for nearly eight years, the Chicago commercial real estate market is shifting from go-go to slow-go. Vacancies in local office, industrial and retail buildings are rising again, and hotels are a little emptier than they were last year. A construction wave threatens to undermine the best downtown apartment market in decades. And sales of Chicago-area commercial properties have dropped amid signs that prices have peaked.
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Chicago Tribune
With the price of bitcoin soaring, the CME Group announced plans to launch a futures contract on the digital currency by year’s end, offering a trading platform for investors — and perhaps some legitimacy for skeptics. The new contract, pending regulatory approval, will be based on the daily bitcoin reference rate, which is up 500 percent for the year, drawing increasing interest from traders, according to Chicago-based CME, the world’s leading derivatives marketplace.
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Forbes
Commercial real estate financing in Chicago dropped 13% in the first six months of 2017, CrediFi found in a recent report on Chicago lending. Windy City loan originations for commercial properties slumped from $12 billion in the first half of 2016 to $11 billion in the first half of this year.
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Black Enterprise
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is investing over $2 million in minority-owned businesses in Chicago as part of a $40 million commitment to build underserved communities and boost local economies in neighborhoods located on the South Side and West Side. The investment will be allocated to fund six nonprofits that empower entrepreneurs of color and female founders with access to capital, mentorship, and networking opportunities.
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Chicago Inno
Chicago tech companies saw a steady stream of investments throughout October, collectively raising more than $94 million this month. However, the figure was fairly flat compared to September. October fundings dropped 75 percent from last month, when Chicago tech companies raised more than $385 million.
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Hedgeweek
Total volume traded on Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE) year to date in 2017 has exceeded the total volume of all contracts traded on CFE in 2016. Total volume traded on CFE in all of 2016 was 60.2 million contracts, total volume traded on CFE through October 2017 is 61.9 million contracts.
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