Finance Career Resources

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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
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.
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
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
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
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:
Leading Investment Firms and Banks - from http://www.cgu.edu/fineng/firms.htm
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)
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 .)