CFA Jobs

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.

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