Upcoming Events

CFA Society Seattle Movie Night – Dumb Money

Hodl your popcorn and Raisinets! Come enjoy the highly anticipated premier of “Dumb Money” at CFA Society Seattle’s first movie night! All members, non-members, spouses, significant others, friends, and kids are welcome!

Dumb Money recounts the battle between the retail traders of Reddit who orchestrated the GameStop short squeeze and meteoric rise of the meme stocks vs. the Wall Street behemoths. The high-profile cast includes Paul Dano (Keith “Roaring Kitty” Gill), Pete Davidson (Kevin Gill), Seth Rogen (Gabe Plotkin), and more!

Watch the official trailer here!

Capacity is limited so sign up today to reserve your spot!

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CFA Society Seattle Mentorship Program - 2023 Conclusion Event

CFA Society Seattle’s Mentor Program will hold its final event for 2023 on October 19th.

Scottland Jacobson, Director of Talent Development at Russell Investments and head of its mentorship program, will speak on mentorship. He will talk about how Russell uses its mentorship program to develop young talent and the program’s importance in its workspace.

We invite those who are interested in the program for next year to attend the event. The program lets participants establish a professional mentor-mentee relationship by pairing experienced investment professionals with those who are less experienced in their respective industry. This is a great opportunity for participants to get to know their peers and become more involved with the CFA Society Seattle.

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SAVE THE DATE! 1st Annual CFA Society Seattle Octoberfest!

Join us for Bier, Brats, and Bocce ball at Rhein Haus Seattle. Our society's first Oktoberfest will be a networking event with a brief presentation/update on values investing and ESG themes. More information is coming soon, so save this date on your calendar. We look forward to seeing you there. Prost!

Speaker: Mark Carhart

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CFA Seattle Book Club: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty Ch 6-15

The book is a sweeping attempt to explain the gut-wrenching poverty that leaves 1.29 billion people in the developing world struggling to live on less than $1.25 a day. It focuses on the processes of institutional drift that produce political and economic institutions that can be either inclusive — focused on power-sharing, productivity, education, technological advances and the well-being of the nation as a whole; or extractive — bent on grabbing wealth and resources away from one part of society to benefit another. It argues that some nations are wealthier and more prosperous than others because of their political and economic institutions (e.g. government, market system), and not because of their climates, geography or culture. Essentially, good (inclusive) institutions enable investment and a sense of security in the government and the economic system and so nations prosper, but bad (extractive) institutions do not. Virtuous circles of innovation, expansion and peace are formed from inclusive institutions which form a cycle of increasing prosperity.

This book is particularly interesting because it explains the theory with a huge range of historical examples from the past 200 years plus, focusing not just on the traditional western Europe and the USA vs. African developing nations, but touching on places across the world such as Asia, South America and Eastern Europe. It is especially interesting for anyone who is interested in the sources of poverty and inequality, along with the history of colonialism and feudalism.  

 

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