


Capital Markets Series: Cryptocurrency – Institutionalization or just another fad?
Cryptocurrency represents the most volatile asset that comprises the capital markets in 2021. Price swings of greater than 10% in one week are common. At times it seems as though price action is driven primarily by the tweets of Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla who has added...
Distinguished Speaker Series: Ted Merz, CFA, Bloomberg
On December 1, 2020, CFA Society Chicago hosted another virtual meeting of its Distinguished Speaker Series featuring Ted Merz, CFA, Bloomberg’s Global Head of News Products. Merz oversees search and display for news and social media content on the Bloomberg...
The Impact of the Fed on the Corporate Bond ETF Market
In early March the financial markets were struggling with the impact of the pandemic on the economy. On March 23, 2020, the Federal Reserve Board (“Fed”) took the unprecedented action of announcing that it would directly purchase corporate debt and corporate bond...
The Path to Recovery in a Covid-19 World
The Covid-19 pandemic has inflicted a serious wound on the US economy. It will necessitate that a choice be made between a continued shelter-in-place lockdown and the re-opening of economic activity. There is little doubt that shelter-in-place has slowed the spread of...
Distinguished Speaker Series: Alec Litowitz, Magnetar Capital
Dude, Where’s My Alpha? CFA Society Chicago’s Distinguished Speaker Series hosted Alec Litowitz at the W City Center for a discussion of the history of asset management and its evolution with respect to the hedge fund industry. Litowitz has been managing assets for...