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Book Club – October 2021

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October’s book club selection is The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman. From the publisher: “Drawing on unprecedented access to Simons and dozens of current and former employees, Zuckerman tells the gripping story of how a world-class mathematician and former code breaker mastered the market. Simons…

Data Science in Asset Management

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Practical Applications of Data Science in Asset Management – Demonstration of Tools and Use Cases Session I - 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EST Come learn how data science and machine learning are used in practice for asset management and forecasting from two practitioners in the field. We will take an interactive deep dive into…

CFA Study Group – Level 2

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Join Level 2 CFA Program candidates for a member-organized CFA Exam Study Group! Esref, the study group coordinator, has prepared a few slides to review & virtually discuss the Level 2 reading material below. Study Group Topic: Reading 13 - Intercorporate Investments RSVP to Esref Mehmet Goksu & attend via Google Meet!

Navigating Biden’s Tax Proposals

Tower Club - Tyson's Corner 8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Vienna, VA, United States

They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Change might be the third. CFA Society Washington, DC is honored to welcome Mary Duffy, Managing Director of Andersen’s US National Tax office to the podium. Duffy will uncover some of these likely, if not certain, tax policy implications under the Biden Administration. In…

CFAW Golf Tournament

Pleasant Valley Golf Club 4715 Pleasant Valley Road, Chantilly, VA, United States

Emerge from your socially distant pods and join CFAW for the return of the Annual Golf Tournament. Back and better than ever, this 18-hole four-person scramble at Pleasant Valley Golf Club is the networking opportunity you’ve been waiting for all year! Designed by Tom Clark and Kevin Atkinson, the Pleasant Valley course in Chantilly, VA…

Master the Art of Public Speaking with John Bowe

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What would it mean for your team to make meetings less boring, customer interactions more positive, and projects easier to run? In a relatable, enlightening, humorous, but practical talk, author and writer John Bowe describes how the Ancient Greeks and Romans invented, then taught, speech for over two millennia. His simple, modernized explanation of the…

Financial & Valuation Modeling Boot Camp

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CFA Society Washington, DC is pleased to offer, in partnership with Wall Street Prep, one of Wall Street Prep’s most popular courses to equip busy professionals and students with the financial skills they need on the job. During this intensive 3-day training, participants will learn financial and valuation modeling in Excel using a hands-on, case-study approach.…

Book Club – August 2021

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August's book club selection is An Economist Walks Into A Brothel (And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk) by Allison Schrager. The author equips readers with five principles for dealing with risk, principles used by some of the world’s most interesting risk takers, including a professional poker player, a paparazzo in Manhattan, horse breeders in Kentucky,…

Emerging Markets Investment Outlook 2021

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The emerging markets equity landscape has greatly underperformed developed markets over the last decade despite higher rates of GDP growth. Many forces are challenging the development of these countries that didn’t exist 10 years ago such as environmental & human rights concerns, commodity price deflation, COVID-19, tariffs, and more. What is driving the potential for…

WIN Happy Hour – Transmitting Stimulus Beyond Wall Street to Main Street

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Come connect and reconnect with fellow WIN members at this month's virtual happy hour where our featured speaker, Nancy Davis, will discuss how monetary policy could better support fiscal policy to speed up the recovery. She will also share her views on how to close the wealth gap and address other topics, such as inflation…

Economic Outlook: Real Estate

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There is no doubt that 2020 was a transformative year in the commercial real estate industry. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the pace of many changes that were already under way and has forced investors and tenants to completely rethink the way that space is used and the way that their businesses are run. Looking into…

Certificate in ESG Investing

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Are you interested in accelerating your career? With the Certificate in ESG Investing, you can master real-world investing skills, incorporating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in your skillset. The Certificate in ESG Investing offers you both practical application and technical knowledge in the fast-growing field of ESG Investing - an opportunity to both accelerate…

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