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This is something I've been wanting to post for a long time. I'm obviously not totally ignorant to these matters, but could still benefit alot from everyone else's help. Could we get a thread going on types of financial institutions (that includes acronyms), examples, and positions. If you can't contribute in a meaningful way, don't - let someone who can. I would rather let someone else get this started because my experience is limited to financial advisory. I'm looking for defining things like IB, BB, Buy side, Sell side, MM, etc.. and discussing the various roles within. You don't have to cover the whole industry, just what you know. This would really help me and probably many others as well. In all honesty, and I'm not sure if it's because a lot overlaps, this stuff gets confusing for me sometimes. Thanks, and sorry I have nothing to contribute.

An example of what I am looking for would be as following:

Investment Bank (aka IB, IBK?):

Definition, examples of IB's, and various postions.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 06:18PM by CFA_2_.
 
A couple of decent sources for you to learn about the industry:

http://www.efinancialcareers.com/ - has a bunch of stuff, you can find a couple of pdf's on the site for free that offer a pretty good overview of different job functions.

check out vault or WetFeet .com too. You can get at some of the info for free.
 
desk--a piece of furniture typically with a flat top for writing and a broad underside for wiping comets
 
Stand up desks are nice too... Rummy uses one.


But seriously... investopedia.com is good for terminology, efinancialcareers.com is good for categories of job descriptions. I've found a surprising amount of stuff on about.com as well.

If you're starting from almost zero, the Vault.com guides can help, but they're overpriced for what they are - if you're a recent grad, you can go to a university career center and look at them there, or trek over to a Barnes and Noble and skim some in the store.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 11:19AM by bchadwick.
 
You can also check out different IB websites - normally they have a breakdown of their different business units and what those units are responsible for.
 
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