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Bloomberg
Chicago's public pension debt is $36 billion and growing, it's facing $550 million in budget deficits over the next three years and this summer the state had to bail out a school system that was flirting with insolvency.
Yet next month, the nation's third-largest city — whose bonds were downgraded to junk by Moody's Investors Service two years ago — will start selling as much as $3 billion of debt that another rating company considers as safe as U.S. Treasuries.
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Next City
Every day, says Chicago City Treasurer Kurt Summers, a small business owner comes into his downtown office asking for help. The request is almost always about accessing capital. Last month, Summers announced another tool that will strengthen that kind of support for entrepreneurs looking to tap funds online. Early on in his tenure as city treasurer, Summers toured all 77 of Chicago's neighborhoods, and those visits generated around 200 ideas, Summers says. Some 40 percent of those ideas had to do with access to capital.
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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
Now that you have prepared and practiced for the CFA® exam, you are ready to perform and put your skills and knowledge to the test. The Live Schweser Mock Exam is as close to the actual CFA exam in format, difficulty, and length as we can make it. The Mock Exam helps develop your test-taking skills, identify your weak areas, and demonstrate your mastery of the CFA curriculum. Afterward, view answer explanations, check your score compared to those of other candidates, and drill deeper into each question with our Mock Exam Tutorial.
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CFA Society Chicago
Meet local authors, explore and debate timely industry events and get to know like-minded financial literature enthusiasts. The CFA Society Chicago Book Club embraces discussion of a wide range of themes in the informal environment provided by the book club. From tried and true classics to cutting-edge industry ideas, well-known leaders and niche topics in between, we have something for everyone.
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CFA Institute Enterprising Investor
"I don't connect with clients on social media." That's the response many investment advisers give when I ask what they are doing around social. It can feel uncomfortable to risk messing up and getting it wrong, and finance is an industry where compliance rules abound. Yet my advice is to focus on what can go right with social media, not on what can go wrong.
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Forbes
Chicago is one of the largest metro areas in the country and the only primary market in the Midwest. Is the Chicago property market a risky bet or a good deal? We took a look at some stats, and here's what we found.
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CNBC
The major futures exchanges believe in the development of cryptocurrency trading and will push on with launching exchange traded funds that allow investors to trade in them, chief operating officer and president of Cboe Global Markets said recently.
Speaking on a conference call after the company's third quarter results, Chris Concannon and other executives declined to say when they expected regulatory approval for a bitcoin exchange traded fund they announced earlier this year.
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Pensions & Investments
Institutional investors want to increase their allocations to infrastructure over the medium term, with an emphasis on emerging market infrastructure, shows a new survey by the Global Infrastructure Hub.
The survey found the most optimism about the pipeline of projects in emerging markets, with 85 percent of survey respondents believing it will grow.
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Chicago Tribune
Two of the three China-based bidders for the Chicago Stock Exchange have withdrawn from a group trying to acquire the market, officials said recently.
American investors would own 71 percent of the exchange under an amended proposal submitted to the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission. Chinese investors would own a 29 percent stake, according to Drew Mauck, a spokesman for the exchange at 3Points Communications.
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Crain's Chicago Business
CBOE Global Markets sees bitcoin exchange-traded funds on the horizon.
The Chicago-based exchange operator is competing with local rival CME Group to introduce bitcoin futures. CBOE announced in August that it wanted to offer the contracts, which would use Gemini bitcoin market data, by the end of this year or early next year. Each company needs approval from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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