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CFA Society Chicago Blog
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Impact Investing: A New Investing Paradigm
Jul 10, 2019
A large group of CFA charterholders and other interested investment professionals gathered at the Palmer House Hotel to hear the latest thoughts and techniques in Impact Investing from a distinguished panel on June 5. The moderator, Priya Parrish, is a leading proponent of impact investing in the Chicago community of investment managers and managing partner […]
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Big Data, Machine Learning & AI
Jul 03, 2019
Big Data, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are becoming some of the hottest topics in finance. A packed room of CFA charterholders gathered to hear a presentation by Weapons of Math Destruction author Cathy O’Neil and a panel discussion on that topic in early May. O’Neil began her discussion with Google’s autocomplete predictive search […]
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Wine Tasting: Emerging Market Wines
Jun 04, 2019
The marvelous thing about tasting wine is that two people can split a bottle and experience something completely different, yet both opinions, shaped by each individual’s personal experiences, can still be valid. On April 30th, CFA Society Chicago took in an educational wine tasting class presented by 40-under-40 Tastemaker Derrick Westbrook. After a stint as […]
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CFA Society Chicago News
CFA Society Chicago Board Member Kunal Kapoor, CFA, to replace Mansueto as Morningstar CEO
Morningstar named Kunal Kapoor as its next CEO, elevating an executive who has made his career at the Chicago investment research company since emigrating from India to attend college in Illinois. As Kapoor, 41, becomes CEO, Morningstar founder Joe Mansueto, 60, will give up that post but add “executive” to his chairman title. Both moves take effect Jan. 1, according to a statement from Morningstar. ( via Crain’s)
Institutional Investor’s 2016 All-America Fixed-Income Research Team includes CFA Society Chicago Board Member Alex Roever, CFA
CFA Society Chicago board member, Alex Roever, CFA, was named to Institutional Investor’s 2016 All-America Fixed-Income Research Team under the Fixed-Income Strategy and Short-Duration Strategy categories. To view the full list of individuals on the team and methodology for selection, please visit Institutional Advisor.