If you have a history in this business or seeking to pursue it, have read any of the popular finance books, or simply sat back and enjoyed some of the classic Wall Street movies, you will certainly appreciate this well-crafted and first hand perspective of the finance...
Around the time we read this book, a major global growth scare was negatively impacting the financial markets. Examples were the China slowdown which weakened emerging market exports, Japan’s ability to stimulate demand after two lost decades, and the low inflation...
The CFA Society Chicago book club met on Oct 20th, 2015 to discuss The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies written by MIT professors Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. The book discusses the digital age and how it...
The CFA Society Chicago book club met for their monthly meeting on June 16, 2015 to discuss “The Billion Dollar Mistake” by Stephen Weiss. Mr. Weiss brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table as he has spent nearly 25 years on Wall Street working at...
Following the CFA Society Chicago 2015 Annual Conference held on May 7th which focused on emerging opportunities in Latin America, the CFA Society Chicago book club met on May 19th to discuss “How Latin America Weathered the Global Financial Crisis” by Jose De...
The CFA Society Chicago Book Club met for their monthly meeting on April 21, 2015 to discuss The Forgotten Depression, by James Grant. We went around the room and shared our backgrounds and kicked off our discussion on the 1920-1921 “Forgotten Depression”. About a...
The CFA Society Chicago Book Club met on March 17 to discuss Greece and how the debt crisis came to be and the outlook going forward. Matthew Lynn’s 2011 book, Bust; Greece, the Euro, and the Sovereign Debt Crisis was a fantastic read and encouraged a very in depth...
The CFA Chicago Book Club met on Feb. 17 to discuss The End of Copycat China: The Rise of Creativity, Innovation, and Individualism in Asia by Shaun Rein. Below is a summary of the discussion based on the reading: The End of Copycat China by Shaun Rein is a sound...
