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,
- Pension & Endowment management/consulting
- Russell,
- 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
- 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
If you are unfamiliar with any of these visit www.investopedia.com or www.wikipedia.com Investopedia’s definition of Private equity is lacking. Wikipedia has a good explanation of private equity, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_equity
Top CFA employers by region:
http://cfachicago.org/pdf/pcr_top_employers.pdf
Efinancial News' Guide to Careers in Financial Markets Your Guide to Finding a Job in Securities and Banking:
http://www.efinancialcareers.com/images/fuseads/inhouse/cifm_us.pdf
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You missed a few obvious ones here:
- Strategy consulting firms
- Commercial banks (treasury, risk, etc)
- Corp finance depts of large multinationals
See here for a great diagram to help you with FCFE and FCFE valuation!
http://bit.ly/Valuation
Thanks!
Rustin
Looking forward, apprehensively, to the Chartered Financial Analyst exam later this year. Only sitting for the level 1 so there's still a ways to go but I'm eager to get stuck in.
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