Bonds and Fixed Income Securities
      *Bradynet - quotes, analysis and instrument descriptions on selected Emerging Market Debt.
      *Grants Interest Rate Observer provides some of the best economic commentary on Wall Street. Widely read in the buy side community.
      *Salomon Brothers has a nice section on fixed-income research and analysis.
      *Buying Treasury securities
      *The Journal of Fixed Income features contributions by leading practitioners and academics on mortgage-backed securities, corporate bonds, asset-backed securities, high-yield bonds, international bond markets, futures, swaps, options, caps, florrs and much more. The journal is published quarterly under the editorial direction of Douglas Breeden, Professor of Finance, at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and president of Smith Breeden Associates, an investment advisory firm. The Journal of Fixed Income is published by Institutional Investor, Inc. To subscribe call (212) 303-3185 or fax your order to (212) 3033-3527. The subscription rate is $160 a year.

    CD's (Certificates of Deposit)
      *Bank Rate Monitor. Find out who is paying the most on deposits, CDs and who is giving the best loans in your area.
      *Cyberbank - scans for highest CD rates.

    Commodities and Futures
      *Understanding Opportunities and Risks in Futures Trading
      *A Guide to Futures and Options Quotations
      *Wall Street Direct-great resource for investors
      *South African Futures Exchange
      *Huang's Weekly Futures Market Report
      *O' Connor and Co. - mainly services an institutional clientele
      *International Finance and Commodities Institute
      *HedgeHog Online Market Advisory
      *Daily Petroleum Price Report
      *Investors Galleria
      *How to Become a Realtime Commodities Futures Trader
      *Investment News Online
      Featured on the I-no site on the World-Wide Web will be futures exchanges and their members, managed futures firms, futures commission merchants, industry magazines, newsletters and news services, as well as prices, charts and a research library. The Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) who have already signed up to join together administer over $2 billion in managed futures.
      *Chicago Mercantile Exchange
      *Corcoran's Futures Hotline
      *Olsen & Associates. O&A is a leading developer of on-line predictive information systems for the financial community.
      *Montgomery Investment Technology. We market and develop software that prices options and other derivative securities.
      *Worldwide Weather Reports for Commodities Investors
      *Glossary of Futures & Options Terms from Wall Street Direct
      *Collectibles Gold and Currency Exchange

    Asset-backed Securities, Swaps, Risk Management and Derivatives
      *Sallie Mae-Student Loan Market Corp
      *Derivatives Center from NUMA
      *Robert's Online Option Pricer
      *JP Morgan
      *The Benefits and Risks of Derivatives by Rajna Gibson and Heinz Zimmerman

    Global Investment Opportunities
      *FMS FMS is a Frankfurt-based money newsletter reporting each week on Bundesbank, German interest rates, and European Monetary Union.
      *Nomura Research Institute
      *Nikko Securities
      *Daiwa Institute of Research
      Daiwa's Information Bank The Daiwa Securities Group now provides a new Worldwide Web page to summarize first-half financial reports of listed and OTC Japanese companies. This new service is part of Daiwa's Corporate Information Bank (CIB) and will summarize midterm financial reports on the day following their release. It will also provide updated company forecasts of fiscal-year results.
      *Asia Inc. Online
      *ShareNet We offer access to Live Johannesburg Stock Exchange Prices, Live SA Futures Exchange prices, Unit Trust prices and gilts. There is also a daily download service available and a small graphing program. The service is on a subscription basis, but some info is available free on our home page.
      *Italian Stock Prices
      *Canadian Financial Network provides a window on Canadian financial markets.
      *Global Stock Market Report
      *Asian Stock Exchanges
      *Language Translator. Financial Terms are defined in several languages.
      *East African Financial Markets Newsletter
      *Bradynet - quotes, analysis and instrument descriptions on selected Emerging Market Debt.
      *Internet Securities. Internet Securities is a leading provider of on-line financial, market and economic data for investors in selected emerging markets of Eastern & Central Europe and Russia.
      *Center for Latin American Capital Markets Research
      *Euromoney is a leading magazine covering developments in international finance with research guides, statistical rankings, interviews and in-depth articles. The usual cost of Euromoney is $370 a year. It is available to students and professors at a discount. To receive more information contact Euromoney at 011-44-0-71-779-8536 in London (fax: 011-44-0-71-779-8617). You may also reach them by mail at Euromoney Publications PLC, Nestor House, Playhouse Yard, London EC4V 5EX, United Kingdom.

    Technical Analysis Methods
      *Cyberinvesting Get speculation on the future from Mark Leibovit, one of Rukeyser's elves. Market Timing and Investment Information. Uses QuickTime and RealAudio.
      *inSight inFormation Trading Advisory
      *Technical Analysis Challenge
      *Investor's Advantage Now you can chart Individual Stocks, Futures, Options, Mutual Funds and General Market Trends on your PC, using proven technical market indicators. Investor's Advantage for Windows also provides a weekly report of all the stocks being tracked, sorted strongest to weakest by a strength rating. This rating is calculated based on the price performance of each individual stock. The more stocks you track, the better your chances of including the strongest stocks in your portfolio.
      *Books on Neural Networks and Chaos
      *Wall Street Direct-great resource for investors
      *Olsen & Associates Trading Research and Advisory
      *New York Institute of Finance Bookstore

    Fundamental Analysis Methods
      *Wall Street News Forecasts of News
      *BARRA Global Investment Technology. Provides innovative analytical models, software and services to enable you to make superior investment and trading decisions.
      *Warren Buffett Page
      *Accelerating Growth StockSelector
      *Researchmag - Financial information to investors, including: 5400 S&P Research Reports, 2200 S&P Mutual Fund Reports, Company Profiles, Fact Sheets, and Wall Street Screens.
      *SEC EDGAR Database
      *Three Islands Investments. An electronic investment analyzer. Will compare ratios of two companies.

    Portfolio Analysis
      *Toronto Dominion Wealth Allocation Model
      *Macro-Investment Analysis. This is a work in progress written by William F.Sharpe, of Stanford.
      *Syllabus of Course on Empirical Research in Finance. Has a great reading list on modern asset pricing.
      *Conscious Investing Home Page uses MPT to help analyze your portfolio.
      *Investments: A Visual Approach. This product has been developed by John O'Brien and Sanjay Srivastava of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie-Mellon University and is published by South-Western College Publishing. This disk is part of the larger FAST program at Carnegie-Mellon. The program includes three modules (CAPM Tutor, Options Tutor, Bond Tutor) that run under Windows. The Real Time Trading (RTS) system available for license by CMU allows students to engage in real time trading and is based on Reuters terminals and a network of Windows machines. This systems allows students to both learn the financial markets and financial theory in a real time setting. For more information contact John O'Brien at Carnegie-Mellon at (412) 268-7582.
      *BARRA Global Investment Technology. Provides innovative analytical models, software and services to enable you to make superior investment and trading decisions.
      *The Journal of Portfolio Management is a leading journal for researchers and practitioners in the field of equity and fixed income portfolio management. It is available from Institutional Investor, Inc. To subscribe call (212) 303-3185 or fax your order to (212) 3033-3527. The subscription rate is $180 a year.

    Money Managers
      * BZW Investment Management Hong Kong Limited
      *Piper Jaffray
      *Money Manager Performance Data
      *JP Morgan
      *LENS is a leader in the field of corporate governance. The LENS Web site provides information on the LENS Fund and serves as a center for discussion of corporate-governance issues.
      *Wells Fargo/Nikko Advisors. A leading money manager with over $150 billion under management. You will find that you can follow your 401(k) account and performance of investment accounts here. Very nicely done.
      *Wuesthoff | Wickham Investment Counsel
      *Alliance International Corporation. Alliance International Corporation provides offshore asset protection and investment diversification through a consortium of US and international financial advisors, attorneys, and tax accountants.
      *Altamira
      *Money Management as a Career

    Trust Services
      *Investors Bank and Trust Investors Bank & Trust provides customized securities processing services for individual and pooled financial products (e.g., mutual funds) domestically and globally. Services include: Domestic & Foreign Custody, Multicurrency Fund Accounting, Hub and Spoke(r) Processing, Mutual Fund Administration, Offshore Fund Accounting, Institutional Transfer Agency, Securities Lending, and Private Banking Services.

    Trading Simulations and Financial Games
      *University of Iowa Electronic Market
      *PAWWS - Portfolio Accounting World Wide
      *Gigabucks Stock Market Simulation

    Foreign Exchange
      *Olsen & Associate Exchange Rates
      *ICC, Interest and Currency Consultants, are the first consultants in the world to give their views on the development of the interest and currency rates on the Internet.
      *Parkview Financial
      *Quotes from the Czech National Bank

    Insurance
      *Atlanta Internet Insurance Group. Information on individual and Group Life/Health/Disability/Dental/401(k)/ SEP plans.
      *Ye Olde Insurance Shoppe
      *Yahoo Insurance Page
      *Careers in Insurance
      *Premier Insurance

    Real Estate
      *Yahoo Real Estate Page
      *Crown NorthCorp. Real estate workouts, bond asset management and loan restructurings.
      *Consumer Mortgage Information Network is dedicated to providing home buyers with timely and unbiased information relating to residential financing. At this stage the site has three primary components:
      1. Mortgage Information Library (e.g. Fannie Mae Programs & Publications, Farmer's Home Loan Association, Historical ARM Indexes)
      2. Free Mortgage Analysis Software which creates an on-screen financing estimate and calculates closing costs, cash required at closing, and the minimum monthly income required under Fannie Mae Guidelines.
      4. Links to popular real estate residential listing sites and other sites related to real estate sales, investment and financing.
      *How Much Home Can I Buy?
      *Mortgage Payment Calculator
      *Homeowners Real Estate Page
      *Creative Financing Real Estate
      *Mortgage Market Information Service Inc. is one of the nations leading publishers of home finance information. Currenlty they publish mortgage information in over 300 newspapers across the country together with the radio and televison media.
      *Coldwell Banker
      *RealWorks Real Estate Forum
      *The VA Loan Program
      *Mortgage Strategies. This report will show how you can save $50,000 to $100,000 of unnecessary mortgage interest and pay your loan off 33%-50% sooner.

    Glossary of Corporate Finance Terms
      *Glossary of Corporate Finance Terms
      *Finance Glossary from Campbell Harvey at Duke University.
      *International Financial Encyclopeadia
      *Glossary of Trading and Investment Terms - Lots of info on technical analysis
      *Definitions of Trading Terms from Investors Galleria
      *Telescan Enyclopaedia of Fundamental and Technical Indicators
    *OSU Virtual Finance Library
    *Financial Data Finder
    *Business Job Finder
    *Ohio State Department of Finance Home Page
    *Fisher College of Business Homepage

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