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Finance Career Resources

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  1. Search Engine Directories for Financial Engineering (also Risk Management, Financial Econometrics)
    1. Google Directories
      1. directory.google.com/Top/Science/Math/Applications/Mathematical_Economics_and_Financial_Mathematics/ 
      2. directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Business/Management/Risk_Management/ 
    2. Yahoo Directories
      1. dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business/Corporate_Services 
      2. dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business/Corporate_Services/Consulting/Risk_Management 
      3. dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Finance_and_Investment/Financing/Organizations/Credit_Risk_Management/Professional/ 
    3. Lycos Directories
      1. dir.lycos.com/Science/Math/Applications/Mathematical_Economics_and_Financial_Mathematics 
      2.     Mathematical_Economics_and_Financial_Mathematics/Companies/ 
    4. About Directories
      1. Risk Management - insurance.about.com/library/weekly/aariskmgmt021801.htm?terms=%22risk+management%22 
    5. FinanceWise - www.financewise.com -  the first search engine to focus on financial-only content.
  2. Professional Organizations
    1. Prmia - www.prmia.org - Professional Risk Managers' International Association
            
      Jobs Board - pprmia.org/jobs/index.php?Section=jobboard&Page=index - as of 03Oct14, ~100 jobs posted ($0 post fee) search not flexible, cannot submit resume
    2. International Association of Financial Engineers - www.iafe.org 
           National Financial Math Career Fair - www.finmathjobfair.org 
           Job Board - www.iafe.org/?id=jobboard - as of 03Oct14, 4 jobs posted ($300 post fee), cannot submit resume
    3. Society of Quantitative Analysts - www.sqa-us.org  
           Job Opportunities - www.sqa-us.org/Careers/Job_Opps.htm - as of 03Oct14, 10 jobs posted ($? post fee), cannot submit resume
    4. Global Association of Risk Professionals (Garp) - www.garp.com
            Newsletter - www.garp.com/newsletter 
            Career Center - careers.garp.com - as of 03Oct14, for Affiliated Member ($0 cost), 58 jobs posted ($? post fee), can submit resume (text and formatted).  Individual member ($100 cost), has full access to Career Center.
    5. New York Society of Security Analysts - www.nyssa.org 
    6. Market Technicians Association - www.mta.org 
    7. Stamford Society of Investement Analysts - www.ssia.org  
    8. SIAM - www.siam.org - Activity Group on Financial Math - siags/siagfme.htm
    9. Qwafafew - www.qwafafew.org - Quantitative Work Alliance For Applied Finance, Economics, and Wisdom
            NYC Chapter Admin: Herb Blank of QED International Associates - www.qedinternational.com 
                     Membership: Michael Carty mcarty@qwafafew.org  212-261-1843 
                              of  New Millennium Advisors - www.newmilladvisors.com 
    10. Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) - www.informs.org   
      1. Edelman Prize - www.informs.org/Prizes/EdelmanPrizeDetails.html - good discussion of applications
      2. ORMS Tomorrow - ormstomorrow.informs.org/ - online student newsletter
      3. NY Metro Chapter - nymetro.chapter.informs.org/ - has monthly meetings in NYC
      4. Resources - www.informs.org/Resources 
      5. ORChampions - www.orchampions.org - has tools to sell OR
      6. Roundtable - www.informs.org/site/roundtable
      7. High School OR - www.hsor.org
      8. IFORS - www.ifors.org - International Transactions in Operations Research 
  3. Academic Financial Engineering Programs
    1. NYU Courant Institute - www.math.nyu.edu 
             MS Math in Finance - www.math.nyu.edu/financial_mathematics 
             Finance Seminars - www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html  
    2. Polytechnic University - www.ite.poly.edu/fe
    3. Columbia - www.ieor.columbia.edu/ - 212-854-0757
             Computational Optimization Research Center - www.corc.ieor.columbia.edu - Optimization Day - Nov 3, 2003 
    4. Columbia - www.math.columbia.edu/ 
    5. Carnegie Mellon - web.gsia.cmu.edu 
    6. Cornell University - Financial Engineering Option - www.orie.cornell.edu/meng/brochure/tables/financial1.html 
             OR IE - www.orie.cornell.edu - has links to a few course websites 
    7. Princeton University - Operations Research and Financial Engineering - www.orfe.princeton.edu 
             MSE - www.orfe.princeton.edu/graduate/mse.html   
    8. Princeton University - Bendheim Center for Finance - www.princeton.edu/~bcf/ 
             Master in Finance - www.princeton.edu/~bcf/master.htm - the above program was transitioned into the new Master in Finance (?)
    9. Wharton - www.wharton.upenn.edu 
    10. MIT - Financial Technology Option - web.mit.edu/fto/ 
             MIT - Laboratory for Financial Engineering - web.mit.edu/lfe 
             web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2001/ocw.html - free class material  
    11. NYU Stern - www.stern.nyu.edu 
      1. MS in Statistics with specialization in Financial Engineering - www.stern.nyu.edu/sor/ms_fin.html - as of 03Sep18, no longer active
      2. Syllabi - www.stern.nyu.edu/Academic/Syllabi
      3. Faculty Working Papers - www.stern.nyu.edu/Faculty/workingpapers
      4. CIIO Working Papers - www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/workingpapers
  4. Financial Industry Info
    1. Paul Wilmott - www.wilmott.com  - has many Quantitative Finance forums
    2. Financial Engineering News - www.fenews.com - is the bi-monthly newspaper
           Financial Engr Library - www.fenews.com/fen32/special_feature/special_feature.html#III 
           Number one: Options, Futures and Other Derivatives, John C. Hull, Prentice Hall College Div; 5th edition 0-130-09056-5
           Fin Engr Software Firms - www.fenews.com/fen27/FENSoftwareFirms.html   
    3. Investopedia - www.investopedia.com 
    4. J. P. Morgan - www.jpmorgan.com/cgi-bin/Indices 
    5. J. P. Morgan - RiskMetrics Group - www.riskmetrics.com/  
           Tech Documents - www.riskmetrics.com/techdoc.html - Documents: (i) Long Run (ii) Technical Document (iii) Risk Management
           (iv) Clear Horizon (v) and CreditMetrics - rated fifth for Fin Engr's Library 
    6. Financial Engineering Associates - www.fea.com 
    7. FinMath - www.finmath.com - Financial Engineering & Risk Management Workshop
    8. Bob's Guide - www.bobsguide.com 
  5. Financial Engineering Career Resources
    1. National Financial Math Career Fair - www.finmathjobfair.org 
        Participating Organizations:
      1. AIG
      2. BlackRock
      3. BNP Paribas
      4. Citigroup - Careers - careers.citigroup.com 
      5. Clinton Group
      6. Credit Suisse First Boston
      7. D.E. Shaw
      8. Deutsche Bank
      9. Garrison Associates, LLC
      10. Goldman Sachs
      11. Grady Levkov & Company
      12. JPMorgan Chase - Careers - careers.jpmorganchase.com 
      13. Lime Brokerage
      14. Lord, Abbett & Co.
      15. Merrill Lynch
      16. Morgan Stanley
      17. Oliver, Wyman & Co.
      18. Paloma Partners
      19. SAC Capital Advisors
      20. The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp
    2. Top Ten Employers of CFA® Charterholders - from NY Society of Security Analysts - www.nyssa.org 
      This list was provided by the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR), compiled from data supplied by their members.  Click on the link to view the career section of these companies’ web sites:
      1. Bank of America
      2. CIBC World Markets
      3. Fidelity Investments
      4. Goldman Sachs
      5. Merrill Lynch & Co. 
      6. Morgan Stanley
      7. Prudential Capital 
      8. Putnam Investment Management
      9. RBC Dominion Securities Inc.
      10. Salomon Smith Barney
  6. Leading Investment Firms and Banks - from http://www.cgu.edu/fineng/firms.htm 
    1. A G Edwards & Sons
    2. Bear Stearns & Co Inc
    3. Credit Suisse/First Boston
    4. Deutsche Bank
    5. Goldman Sachs & Co
    6. J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc.
    7. Lehman Brothers
    8. Merrill Lynch
    9. Morgan Stanley
    10. Prudential Securities Inc
    11. Salomon Smith Barney
  7. Financial Data and Information
    1. Bloomberg - about.bloomberg.com/careers/index.html 
    2. Reuters - about.reuters.com/careers 
    3. Standard & Poor's 
    4. Compustat - Standard & Poor's, Institutional Market Services, Denver, Colorado
    5. CRSP - (Center for Research in Security Prices) at University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.
    6. Fame
    7. Lim
    8. Primark Financial Information (Datastream)
  8. Financial Software - Major Companies
    1. Algorithmics
    2. Credit Suisse/First Boston
    3. FinancialCAD Corporation
    4. FNX Limited
    5. Leading Market Technologies  (EXPO)
    6. Mathworks   (MatLab, Financial Toolbox)
    7. Misys
    8. NumeriX
    9. RiskMetrics Group
    10. SciComp, Inc. (SciFinance) - Austin, Texas
    11. Sungard
    12. TIBCO Software Inc. - Palo Alto, CA
    13. Iris Financial Engineering and Systems - www.irisfinancial.com - develops custom trading software systems
    14. Barra - www.barra.com - headquarters in Berkeley, California

                       (This page was last edited on April 22, 2009 .)