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The Washington Post
Here’s one way to tell whether a tax code rewrite is headed in the right direction: Corporate lobbyists should be whining that their private breaks are getting squeezed too hard, and economists should be cheering because the trashing of those preferences is paying for lower overall rates that could fuel new growth.
Neither of those things is happening.
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CFA Society Chicago
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Since the dawn of the joint-stock corporation firms have struggled with the composition of boards and their proper role - and the consequences directors are made to suffer when they fail in that role. Similarly, investors have struggled with how to assess corporate governance and its impact on valuation and performance. Those issues have taken their most recent form in increased specialization and focus among board members, with aggressive clawbacks, say-on-pay rules, and pay-ratio reporting to compel their performance. From the investor's standpoint, mega managers and proxy services now act as defacto rule-making bodies and enforcers for governance standards. Plan sponsors with the help of emerging governance data and analysis providers are also acting aggressively by including ESG requirements in their mandates. Join CFA Society Chicago and assembled experts and thought leaders for an evening of learning and discussion about the state of corporate governance and what it means for you.
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CFA Society Chicago
Topic: BBX Capital Corporation (BBX)
Monday, December 4
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Special situations are corporate actions which could reveal an undervalued security and hence an investment opportunity. Some examples of Special Situations are spinoffs, liquidations, tender offers, restructurings, bankruptcy exits, etc. In the Special Situations Research Forum, we will discuss an investment situation decided 3 weeks in advance. Every participant in the Forum is expected to research the topic before attending the meeting.
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CFA Society Chicago
Tuesday, December 5
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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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CFA Institute Enterprising Investor
What can artificial intelligence (AI) do for the investment management industry? What can’t it do? As the asset management industry grows increasingly competitive, specialization is the key to survival for most investment firms. Finance is first and foremost a social science. By understanding the behavior of other market participants as well as their own, financial professionals can optimize their investments. This behavioral awareness is a rather recent phenomenon and IT-based decision support systems are helping to optimize it. AI is a special case, however.
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Reuters
Illinois, which sold $6 billion of bonds last month to raise money to pay overdue bills, will be back in the U.S. municipal market with another $750 million of debt. The deal tops the $12.2 billion of bonds and notes states, cities, schools and other issuers plan to sell in the last week of November, according to preliminary estimates by Thomson Reuters.
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Pensions & Investments
Chicago Transit Authority Employees Retirement Plan will interview three open-end private equity managers — Partners Group, Central Park Group and PPC Enterprises — at its Nov. 30 investment subcommittee meeting. It is anticipated that the investment subcommittee will recommend one of the three firms be hired at the Dec. 21 board meeting.
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Crain's Chicago Business
Cook County finally has a new budget. After weeks of wrangling, the county board voted 17-0 to enact the $5 billion spending plan, filling the $200 million hole they created with they repealed President Toni Preckwinkle's soda-pop tax with a variety of spending cuts and revenue tweaks. The action was expected. Probably the better story is some of the stuff that went on behind the scenes. Such as how the Public Guardian's office, which at one point had been targeted for massive cuts, managed in the end to come out OK.
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Bloomberg via Crain's Chicago Business
JPMorgan Chase is weighing whether to help clients bet on the price of bitcoin via the CME Group's proposed futures contracts, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The largest U.S. bank is gauging client demand and the potential risks of facilitating their trades, the person said, asking not to be identified talking about internal deliberations. Chicago-based CME Group has said it hopes to offer bitcoin futures by year-end.
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Crain's Chicago Business
Bitcoin backers have created one of the most volatile, active markets on earth—and Chicago's trading community wants in. CME Group and Cboe Global Markets—two of the biggest exchanges in the world—each proposed a new bitcoin futures contract in recent months. When the contracts launch, the Chicago companies will convert trading to fees.
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GreenBiz
As more people move to cities, urban farms now produce a fifth of the globe’s food. In the United States, urban farms are blossoming in Cleveland, Chicago and New York City. Vertical farming is one example of agtech. According to CB Insights, agtech companies around the world will disrupt how United States citizens eat for the first time since World War II.
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