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CFA Thoughts
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CFA Jobs
Posted in CFA, Finance, tagged CFA, Consulting, Hedge funds, Investment Bank, Jobs, Mutual Funds, Private Equity, Private wealth management on October 16, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Picked up from some blog …. not my creation 🙂
What are some examples of CFA related professions:
- Equity (stock) analysis
- Examples of companies are any major investment bank, Standard and Poors, Value Line, etc.
- Credit (bond) analysis
- Standard and Poors, Moody’s, Fitch Ratings, DBRS
- Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures
- Any major investment bank, namely Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, and Lehman Brothers. There are also a number of boutique M&A firms.
- Investment banking
- Conduct initial public offerings of stocks
- Conduct placements of bonds
- Trading
- View a list of investment banks on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Investment_Banks
- Private equity
- Carlyle group, Texas Pacific Group, Blackstone, KKR, Goldman Sachs
- List of the 50 largest Private Equity firms: http://www.peimedia.com/pei50
- Real estate investing
- Vornado, Equity Office Properties, Equity Residental,Brookfield Properties
- Pension & Endowment management/consulting
- Russell, Cambridge Associates, Ennis Knupp, Barclays Global
- Visit Pension and Investing online for a list of various P&I companies: http://www.pionline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=PENSIONFUNDDIRECTORY&IssueDate=20070122
- Private wealth management (private banking)
- All major investment banks, Mellon Financial, Stanford Financial, US Trust
- Hedge funds
- Bridgewater, D.E. Shaw, SAC Capital Partners, etc.
- Mutual funds
- Fidelity, American Funds (a Capital Group Company), Vanguard, etc.
- Economic consulting
- NERA, LECG
- Tax and transaction consulting (i.e., accounting firm)
- KPMG, Deloitte & Touche, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, Grant Thornton, etc.