Section 1: SomeNotable Sites

• Yahoo Net Events for Finance and Investing
  http://events.yahoo.com/est5edt/Business_and_Economy/Finance_and_Investment/
  This site is a daily list of investment audio and visual on the internet.

• justQuotes
  http://www.justquotes.com/
  Enter ticker symbol or company name and you are linked to quotes, charts, news, profiles, earnings estimates, SEC Filings, analysts and research reports, magazine, newspaper and search engines and more...

• Personal Finance Information Source

  http://web.mnstate.edu/kalra/usefullinks/Research.htm

  Featuring financial articles, investment commentary, retirement advice, and more

• Investor Words
  http://www.investorwords.com/
  With over 4,000 investing terms and 15,000 links between related words, InvestorWords is the most comprehensive investing glossary you'll find anywhere, online or off.

• Investing in Bonds
  http://www.investinginbonds.com/
  Individuals interested in learning more about bond investing can tap into this new site, which enables investors to access a daily yield table for municipal bonds, closing Treasury prices compiled by GovPx, links to firms that provide pricing and general bond market information, a list of bond dealers who are members of the The Bond Market Association, booklets published by Association (including the full text of the Association's Investor's Guides to Municipal Bonds, Corporate Bonds, Mortgage Securities and Inflation-Indexed Securities), and links to other Internet sites where bond market information is available.

• Search Engine Watch
  http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
  Everything you ever wanted to know about Web search engines

• Big Charts
  http://www.bigcharts.com
  Big Charts is a comprehensive and easy to use, and free charting service. Build, save, and update your favorites.

• Fund Spot
  http://www.fundspot.com/
  Provides mutual fund family phone numbers and links, weekly news about mutual funds investing, a discussion board for posting questions and links to best general and mutual fund information sites, Roth IRA resources, including links to articles about Roth IRAs and worksheets and calculators for estimating benefits of converting to or opening a Roth IRA.

• RothIRA
  http://www.rothira.com
  The purpose of this site is to provide technical and planning information on Roth IRAs to practitioners and consumers.

• FundFinder
  http://www.pathfinder.com/money/funds/index.html
  Scour 7,500 stock and bond funds to find the best match for your portfolio based on objective,performance, expenses, holdings, risk, etc.

• 1998 Mutual Fund Fact Book from the Investment Company Institute
  http://www.ici.org/facts_figures/factbook98_toc.html
  

• An Introduction to Investment Theory
  http://viking.som.yale.edu/will/finman540/classnotes/notes.html
  An online investment text book by Yale Professor Will Goetzmann

• The Web Investor
  http://www.thewebinvestor.com/mfcomp.html
  Listing of Mutual Fund companies online.

• 100 Hot Financial Sites
  http://www.100hot.com/finance/fullscreen.html
  100hot Sites is a free directory to the most popular sites on the web.

• Anti-Money Laundering

http://risk.lexisnexis.com/investigate-money-laundering

• Roth IRA

Guide to Roth IRA-- how to invest in their Roth IRAs and pitfalls/tips & tricks of doing so

http://www.definerothira.com

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Section 2: Practitioner Daily Use Sites

• Starting Sites

  1. The Financial Data Finder- Ohio State University
     http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/overview.htm
     This page points to financial and economic data available on the Web and elsewhere. Other local resources include Department Home Page, The Journal of Finance, Educational Resources in Finance, Research Resources in Finance and the WWW Virtual Library: Finance.

  2. Web Resources for Financial Planning- Ohio State University
     http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu:80/dept/fin/overview.htm
     •Financial Planning Tools •Home Loan Calculator •Outline of Data Needed for Personal Financial Planning •Readings in Estate Planning •Readings on Long-Term Care Insurance •Readings in retirement planning •Readings in succession planning •Summary of tax provisions important for self-employed individuals) •TIAA-CREF software tools for retirement planning

  3. Investor Home
     http://www.investorhome.com/
     Investor Home includes links and background information for each step in the investment process and all of the major Asset Classes including Stocks, Bonds, Real Estate, Venture Capital, Alternative, and Tangible investments. You'll also find quotes and summaries of research from the industry's most respected sources.

  4. NuWire

     http://www.nuwireinvestor.com

     Publishes several articles each day on investment news

  5. justQuotes
     http://www.justquotes.com/
     Enter ticker symbol or company name and you are linked to quotes, charts, news, profiles, earnings estimates, SEC Filings, analysts and research reports, magazine, newspaper and search engines and more...

  6. Faqfinder
     http://infolab.cs.uchicago.edu/faqfinder/
     Site that scans the Internet for FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) files and indexes them.

  7. streetEYE
     http://www.efrontier.com/
     Index and search engine provide comprehensive access to all resources of interest to investors and investment professionals. We are committed to keeping it as complete, relevant, and up-to-date as possible. You can participate in our commitment to a comprehensive and up-to-date resource by submitting your favorite links.

  8. Internet Finance Resources
     http://www.lib.lsu.edu/bus/finance.html
     "This is a great site which constantly screens and finds new financial site on the Internet."

  9. Investorama
     http://www.investorama.com
     "Another site which I use to keep current with Internet sites in the field of finance."

  10. The Syndicate
      http://www.moneypages.com/syndicate
      "Another great site to keep up with the world of finance on the web."

  11. WACHOWICZ'S WEB WORLD:Web Sites for Discerning
      Finance Students
      http://web.utk.edu/~jwachowi/wacho_world.html
      "The following financial management web sites are grouped to correspond with the major topic headings in  Fundamentals of Financial Management, 10th ed., Prentice-Hall (1998) by James Van Horne and John Wachowicz." It is a fine example of using a web site to complement and enhance a hard copy publication.

  12. Forums

      • Financial Planning Forum
        http://www.fponline.com
        First, you need to register with them at the above site, then follow to the forum.

      • Green Jungle
        http://www.greenjungle.com/pub/

      • AdvisorWorks -- Peter W. Johnson
        http://www.advisorworks.com
        A site exclusively for investment professionals, AdvisorWorks is a password-protected site that offers a Web bulletin board system for advisors to discuss practice-related issues, as well as extensive libraries and links.

  13. E-mail lists

      • The Economist-Business This week
        To start receiving Business This Week, send an email with the message "join economist-business" to newscaster@postbox.co.uk

      • The Economist- News this week
        To start receiving Politics This Week, send an email with the message "join economist-politics" to newscaster@postbox.co.uk

      • Money Daily
        To sign up for Money Daily, point your browser to:
        http://pathfinder.com/@@74YGNgUA1zRZrYeu/money
        /moneydaily/latest/

      • WORTH
        To sign up for WORTH Weekly, point your browser to:
        http://www.worth.com

      • Financial Economists Network (part of Social Science Research Network [SSRN])
        http://www.SSRN.Com/
        Financial Economists Network working paper and published paper series. Every week they send out abstracts of newly published and working papers that they've become aware of. These are divided into "journals" which are devoted to various topics and come complete with e-mail addresses of the authors. For many it's a great way of keeping up with the cutting edge. The problem with the working papers is that there's no quality control.

  14. Tracking the Markets

      • Instant Updates:
        These are sites that one can view during the day to get updated
        on the financial markets:

        • Bloomberg
          http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/wei.html
          This is a list of current domestic and international market
          indexes, both major and minor indices as well as exotic markets

        • DBC News & Commentary
          http://www.dbc.com/cgi-bin/htx.exe/newsroom
          /newsroom.html?SOURCE=newsroom
          This site provides business news including market commentary, as well as breaking business stories.

        • The Wall Street Journal
          http://interactive2.wsj.com/edition/current
          /summaries/front.htm
          This site provides an updated version of The Wall Street Journal. It includes all stories in the U.S., Asian and European edition. In addition, it provides a Personal Journal which allows one to customize news reports. This site also just began charging. Costs for Journal subscribers is $29.95 per year.

        • Financial Times of London Internet Edition
          http://www.ft.com/
          This site is where you view selections from the Financial Times of London. Wide ranging international business coverage. Good business book reviews.

        • Pensions and Investments - The International Newspaper of Money Management
          http://www.pionline.com
          P&I Online is the source for performance data on separate account managers

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Section 3: Financial Planning Resources - College Costs

1. College Board's Online College Savings Adviser
   http://www.collegeboard.org/css/html/save.html

2. Fidelity ONline Investors Center - College Cost Calculator
   http://personal.fidelity.com/decisions/college/college_quiz.html

3. Gabelli Funds Inc. College Savings Calculator
   http://www.gabelli.com/Gab_phtml/mfund/saving2.html

4. College Savings Bank's "Create Your Own College Plan
   http://www.collegesavings.com/create1.html

• Insurance

  1. Quotesmith.com
     http://www.quotesmith.com
     Insurance price comparison service

  2. Insurance News Network
     http://www.insure.com/ratings
     Letter-grade ratings that are used by consumers, investors and other interested parties from Standard & Poor's and Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. The ratings you'll see here are called Claims Paying Ability ratings - judgments of the insurers' ability to pay policyholder claims.

• Estate and Gift Tax Law

  1. Legal Information Institute Estate and Gift Tax Law Materials
     http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/estate_
     gift_tax.html

  2. KPMG Tax Act Highlights
     http://www.us.kpmg.com/taxact/taxhigh.html
     KPMG provides a quick glance at the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 tax cuts and revenue raisers.

  3. Internal Revenue Service
     http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/cover.html
     Links to federal tax forms, IRS publications, and related information.

  4. U.S. Congress- Pending Legislation
     http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas2.html
     A summary of legislation pending before Congress is available here. This page is actually quite informative for a site maintained by the government.

  5. U.S. Government Information Sources
     http://iridium.nttc.edu/gov_res.html
     Want to locate the web site for a branch or agency of the U.S. Government? Then the U.S. Government Information Sources is the place to start. A search feature compliments an extensive list of agencies and departments.

  6. State Government Information Sources
     http://www.piperinfo.com/state/states.html
     Thousands of links to state, county, and city web sites.

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• Research Resources in Finance -- Ohio State University
  http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/~fin/journal/jofsites.htm

  1. Finance Research Centers
     http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu:80/~fin/resources_ research/rsctr.htm

  2. Research Journals
     http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu:80/~fin/resources_ research/rsjnl.htm

  3. Research Papers Online
     http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/~fin/journal/ jofsites.htm

  4. Data
     http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu:80/~fin/osudata.htm

  5. Software
     Statistical Software
     http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu:80/~fin/resources_ research/rssoft.htm

  6. Books in Financial Economics
     http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu:80/~fin/resources_ research/rsbooks.htm

  7. Locating Finance Researchers --
     a World-Wide Directory of Finance Faculty
     http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu:80/~fin/finhome.htm

  8. Upcoming Conferences and Events
     http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu:80/~fin/resources_ research/rsconf.htm

  9. Other Related Sites
     http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/~fin/journal/ jofsites.htm
     Contains: Other journals, institutional working papers sites, personal working paper sites, The Financial Professional, link collections, asset pricing & investments, derivatives, corporate finance and government, financial institutions, educational resources of interest to students and some "cool sites."

• CARL UnCover
  http://www.medlib.iupui.edu/carl.html
  CARL UnCover has references and tables of contents to over 10,000 journals in numerous disciplines. You can use UnCover to locate, order and receive articles via fax, and charge article cost to your Mastercard or VISA account. UnCover is especially useful for browsing and for identifying recent articles--over 1,000,000 articles published since Fall 1988 are already in the database and descriptions of 2000 to 3000 newly published articles are generated daily. UnCover is made available and supported by CARL Systems Inc., a marketing and support organization of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries.

• Dr. Ed Yardeni's ECONOMICS NETWORK
  http://www.yardeni.com/
  Web site compiled by Ed Yardini, Chief Economist of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in New York . Access the online chart rooms, collections of charts, economic indicators, weekly economic analysis and briefing, topical studies and monetary and fiscal policies. Most charts are read through Adobe Acrobat

• Resources for Economists
  http://econwpa.wustl.edu/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html

• List of Economic Journals
  http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/Journals.html#f

• Web Finance Online
  http://www.webfinance.net/

• Asset Allocation

  1. Efficient Frontier - An Online Journal of Practical Asset Allocation
     http://www.efficientfrontier.com/
     Edited by William J. Bernstein

  2. THE INTELLIGENT ASSET ALLOCATOR -
     Portfolio Theory For the Small Investor
     http://www.coos.or.us/~wbern/BOOK/title.shtml
     by William J. Bernstein

  3. Ibbotson Associates Research Library
     http://www.ibbotson.com/Research/Default.asp
     Includes articles like:

     • Taming Your Optimizer: The Role of Asset Allocation in Portfolio Management
       http://www.ibbotson.com/research/papers/Taming_Your_Optimizer/page0000.asp
       Scott L. Lummer, Ph.D., CFA; Mark W. Riepe, CFA; Laurence B. Siegel

     • The Role of Returns-Based Style Analysis: Understanding, Implementing, and Interpreting the Technique http://www.ibbotson.com/Research/papers/Returns_Based_Style_Analysis/default.asp
       Lori Lucas, CFA, Manager-Product Development, Ibbotson Associates Mark W. Riepe, Vice President, Ibbotson Associates

     • Hitting the Target: How to Implement an Optimal Portfolio Using Mutual Funds http://www.ibbotson.com/Research/papers/Hitting_the_Target/default.asp
       Lori Lucas, CFA, Ibbotson Associates

     • Are Enhanced Mutual Funds Worthy of Their Name? http://www.ibbotson.com/Research/papers/Enhanced_Index_Mutual_Funds/default.asp
       Mark W. Riepe Vice President, Ibbotson Associates Matthew Werner, Consultant, Ibbotson Associates

     • Stocks, Brady Bonds, and Currencies: Investment Opportunities in Latin America http://www.ibbotson.com/Research/papers/Stocks_Bradys_Currencies/default.asp
       Paul D. Kaplan, Vice President and Chief Economist, Ibbotson Associates

  1. William F. Sharpe's OnLine Articles and Papers http://www-sharpe.stanford.edu/art.htm

     • Asset Allocation: Management Style and Performance Measurement. http://www-sharpe.stanford.edu/sa.htm Reprinted with permission from The Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 1992. Presents the method now generally known as Returns-based Style Analysis and shows results obtained from the analysis of U.S. mutual funds.

     • The Styles and Performance of Large Seasoned U.S. Mutual Funds http://www-sharpe.stanford.edu/ls100.htm Published on the World Wide Web, March 1995. A study of the style and performance of 100 large, seasoned U.S. mutual funds. Tests the hypothesis that "winners repeat".

     • Setting the Record Straight on Style Analysis http://www-sharpe.stanford.edu/fa.htm Reprinted with permission from Dow-Jones Fee Advisor, November/December 1995. An extensive interview with Barry Vinocur that deals with a number of questions about this technique.

     • Financial Economists Roundtable Statment on Risk Disclosure by Mutual Funds http://www-sharpe.stanford.edu/fer96.htm A statement issued in 1996 concerning risk disclosure by mutual funds.

     • Morningstar's Performance Measures http://www-sharpe.stanford.edu/stars0.htm A study (in progress) on Morningstar's performance measures and alternative measures used in academic and other industry analyses.  

• Mutual Funds

  1. amgdata.com
     http://www.amgdata.com
     For years the AMG customer base of Broker/Dealers, Mutual Fund Companies and other Money Managers have utilized information relating to mutual fund flows as a proxy for investor demand sentiment. AMG is now offering more information and a larger selection of perspectives relating to market liquidity to its customers and future customers.

  2. Investment Company Institute
     http://www.ici.org
     National association of the investment company industry. This site gives current statistical information about the mutual fund industry.

  3. Lipper Analytical Services
     http://www.lippernet.com

  4. Morningstar
     http://www.morningstar.net

  5. Mutual Fund Due-Diligence
     http://www.fortitude.com/essays.htm
     A series of essays on mutual fund investing

  6. Mutual Fund Phone Numbers
     http://www.itlnet.com/moneypages/syndicate/faq/phone.htm
     "A ready reference to call your favorite fund company."

  7. Morningstar Mutual Funds on Demand
     http://www.investools.com/cgi-bin/Library/msmf.pl
     Morningstar's full-page reports make it easy to find the funds that best fit a portfolio. The complete, unabridged reports are provided here -- the same as you would get as a print subscriber -- with up to 500 statistics per page. Morningstar Reports are available not just for international but for all reports, domestic, intl or closed end.

  8. Mutual Fund Explorer
     http://www.manhattanlink.com
     Mutual Fund Explorer could be a new competitor to Morningstar, possibly with faster updates, but without commentary.

  9. Mutual Fund Café
     http://www.mfcafe.com/
     This site gives current statistic information about the mutual fund industry.

  10. quote.com
      http://www.quote.com/
      Morningstar statistics-FREE reports & ratings on over 7,000 funds!

  11. BES, Inc.'s Mutual Funds Interactive
      http://www.brill.com
      This site claims that content is what makes them different. Site is built around around exclusive information and insights you won't find anywhere else, with original material and references to other Internet resources.

  12. Advisorsw.com
      http://www.advisorsw.com
      Current returns-based style analysis for mutual funds

  13. Standard and Poor's Global Ratings Book
      http://www.ratings.standardpoor.com/funds
      Standard & Poor's Managed Funds Ratings group rates money market funds, bond funds, local government investment pools and unit investment trusts. Standard & Poor's Managed Funds Ratings also provides a customized portfolio monitoring service designed for use by fiduciaries and fund management. Standard & Poor's has been rating money market and bond funds since 1984. Assets under management for Standard & Poor's rated funds exceeds $200 billion.
      
      

• Securities - Stocks

  1. Stock Screener
     http://www.stockscreener.com/
     You can search using up to 20 performance criteria! Define your search as narrowly as possible.

  2. Online Money
     http://money.com/zacks
     Provides a distribution of brokers recommendations for company by ticker or company name, a list of positive and negative earnings surprises, on target earnings, and earnings reporting dates for each company. Data provided by Zacks Research.

  3. Hoovers Online
     http://www.hoovers.com
     "The ultimate source for company information"-subscription

  4. Quote.com
     http://www.quote.com/
     First Call Earnings estimates, company specific news and research.

  5. NYSE Listed Companies
     http://www.nyse.com/public/listed/3c/3cix.htm
     Links to listed companies homepages

  6. Amex Listed Companies
     http://www.amex.com/stocks/stk_txt1.htm
     Links to listed companies quotes

  7. NASDAQ Listed Companies
     http://www.nasdaq.com/scripts/html3/
     comlookup.idc?srch=name&contain=0&mkt=nnm&key=Microsoft
     Links to listed companies quotes. Can then link to EDGAR for public filings information...

  8. EDGAR
     http://www.sec.gov/
     Database of corporate information

  9. MIT Stock Database
     http://www.stockmaster.com/

  10. Stockguide
      http://www.stockguide.com/alpha.html
      A quote server for pink sheet and otc stocks. It also helps you find ticker symbols for hard to find stocks.

  11. Quotes
      http://www.rtquotes.com/
      This site provides delayed quotes on stocks.

  12. Online Money
      http://money.com/zacks
      Provides a distribution of brokers recommendations for company by ticker or company name, a list of positive and negative earnings surprises, on target earnings, and earnings reporting dates for each company. Data provided by Zacks Research.

  13. Health Quote 360

http://www.healthquote360.com

• Bonds

1. US Government Bonds
   GovPX http://www.panix.com/~govpx
   Composite 3:30 pm quotations for U.S. government securities. Lists each Treasury Bond, Note and Bill, with its CUSIP number, coupon and maturity. Lists the bid, ask, change from the prior trading day, and yield for "skip-day" delivery.
   QuoteCom Street Pricing
   http://www.quote.com/info/street.html
   Quotes on U.S. Treasury securities and on government agency securities are provided as part of the Street Pricing service by Street Software Technology, Inc., from data supplied by a major Broker Dealer in these securities. There are three types of quotes available: 1.Interest rate and spread fixed pages 2.Quotes on active U.S. Treasuries 3.Quotes on government agency securities (FNMA, GNMA, etc.) The cost is $9.95 per month for basic service.
   U.S. Treasury Yield Curve
   http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/C13.html

2. Other Issues
   Bonds Online
   http://www.bonds-online.com/

3. Moody's Outlook on Municipals
   http://www.bondsonline.com/moodys.html

4. Municipal Resource Center
   http://www.municipal.com

5. National Muni Bond Yields
   http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/psamuni.html

6. Nuveen Research
   http://www.nuveenresearch.com/research.htm
   
   

• Real Estate

  1. The DealMakers Commercial & Retail Real Estate Referral DataBase.
     http://www.property.com/
     Providing insight & information on all Aspects of Real Estate Dealmaking & Networking

  2. Case Shiller Weiss, Inc.
     http://www.cswv.com/
     Residential Real Estate Price Information from individual home valuations to overall market trends, CSW can provide you with the tools to answer your real estate questions. CSW has price information for thousands of cities and ZIP Codes across the U.S.
     
     

• Alternative Investments-General

  1. Investor Home Alternative Investments Links Page
     http://www.investorhome.com/alternat.htm
     Links to many useful Alternative Investment-related sites.
     
     

• Venture Capital

  1. Investor Home Venture Capital Links Page
     http://www.investorhome.com/vc.htm
     Links to many useful Venture Capital-related sites.

  2. Venture Capital and Private Equity
     http://www.people.hbs.edu/jlerner/vcpe.html
     Useful educational material from a professor at Harvard Business School.

  3. National Venture Capital Association
     http://www.nvca.org/
     The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) was founded in 1973 and is comprised of approximately 200 professional venture capital organizations. It is organized to broaden the understanding of the importance of venture capital to the vitality of the United States economy. NVCA also works to stimulate the flow of equity capital to emerging growth and developing companies. NVCA seeks to improve communication among venture capitalists throughout the country and to improve the general level of knowledge of the venturing process in government, in the universities and in the business community.

  4. America's Business Funding Directory
     http://www.businessfinance.com
     Access to networks of "accredited private investors."

  5. Price Waterhouse's Venture Capital Survey
     http://www.pw.com/vc/
     A quarterly study of venture capital investments throughout the United States.
     
     

• Initial Public Offerings(IPOs)/Private Placements

  1. Investor home IPO Links Page
     http://www.investorhome.com/ipo.htm
     Links to many useful IPO-related sites.

  2. IPO - The Initial Public Offerings (IPO) Resource Page
     http://linux.agsm.ucla.edu/ipo/
     Useful educational material on IPOs.

  3. IPOnet
     http://www.zanax.com/iponet/
     Run by brokerage firm W.J. Gallagher, it has received approval from the SEC to sell private-placement investments.
     
     

• Hedge Funds

  1. VAN HEDGE FUND ADVISORS
     http://www.nashville.net/~vanhedge/
     Useful educational material on Hedge Funds and Hedge Fund performance information.

  2. MARHEDGE
     http://www.marhedge.com
     Useful educational material on Hedge Funds and Hedge Fund performance information.
     
     

• International

  1. Local Newspapers...Online

     • Yahoo Online Newspaper Directory
       http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Newspapers/Browse_By_Region/Countries/
       A listing of countries, and newspapers based in those countries with a Web site.

  2. riskview.com
     http://www.riskview.com
     Riskview.com allows you to look at investment return, estimate risk, and potentially improve your investment performance. It is a free source of global equity data and risk analytics. It allows you to measure total returns and estimate risks with the same sophisticated tools used by investment banks and institutional fund managers. . . at no charge to you.

  3. Evaluate Political and Economic Risks

     • PRS Online
       http://www.prsgroup.com/
       International Investment Restrictions[ Regimes And Probabilities ] [ Investment Restrictions ] [ Equity Restrictions ] [ Operations Restrictions ] [ Taxation Discrimination ] [ Repatriation Restrictions ] [ Exchange Controls ]
       Five-Year Forecasts[ Political And Economic ] [ Turmoil ] [ Investment Restrictions ] [ Trade Restrictions ] [ Domestic Economic Problems ] [ International Economic Problems ]

     • Strategic Forecasting
       http://www.stratfor.com/
       Money managers evaluating international investment markets may be wise to consider the views of political risk analysts, area specialists, and even military affairs experts. Political stability is as important as economic opportunity when investing outside their domestic markets.

     • Online Intelligence Project
       http://www.icg.org/intelweb/index.html
       The Online Intelligence Project is oriented to individuals and professionals with an interest in international news, commerce, and references. It uses an intelligence service model to array Internet resources into departments and regional desks. 

  4. BradyNet
     http://www.bradynet.com/

  5. Exchange Rates
     New York Federal Reserve
     http://www.ny.frb.org/pihome/mktrates/forex10.shtml
     Daily 10 a.m. midpoint foreign exchange rates from the New York interbank market, certified by the New York Federal Reserve Bank for customs purposes.
     Pacific Exchange Rate Service
     http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/xr/
     Some historical rates back to 1971. Easy to use.
     Universal Currency Converter
     http://www.xe.net/currency
     Interactive calculator and daily update by email.

  6. Stocks

  7. Stock Markets of the World
     http://www.internationalist.com/SERVICE/Stocks.html
     Links to many International investment exchanges-stock and bond markets

     • Morningstar International Stocks OnDemand
       http://www.investools.com/cgi-bin/Library/msis.pl
       Morningstar International Stocks OnDemand is your passport to more than 36 promising markets around the globe. Search the database of more than 700 global stocks to find the one that best fits your portfolio.

  8. U.K. Business Net
     http://www.ukbusinessnet.com/datafile/markets.htm
     Links to many International investment exchanges

  9. Internet Securities, Inc. Emerging Markets Service
     http://www.securities.com/
     ISI Emerging Markets provides hard-to-get information about emerging markets economies including financial, economic and political news and information, and transmits that data through the Internet. Full-text news articles, financial statements, industry analyses, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific information, which are derived directly from local information providers, appear in both English and the local language.

  10. Emerging Markets Companion
      http://www.emgmkts.com/
      A convenient window into the emerging economies of Asia, Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe, with content contributed by premier market participants and news organizations,and access to economic and political events, market activity, and investment strategies.

• Investment Banks and Other Sources

  1. Salomon Brothers: Bond Market Roundup: Abstract World Wide Web site http://www.salomon.com/efir/
     Mainly password protected for Salomon clients.

  2. JP Morgan: Bond Market Roundup: Abstract World Wide Web site
     http://www.jpmorgan.com/MarketDataInd/
     Research/IntroInflaProtectBond/IntroInfa-pro_
     bonds.htm

  3. JP Morgan: Value-At-Risk Calculator
     http://www.jpmorgan.com/RiskManagement/VaR/VaRcalc.html
     Uses JP Morgan's VaR data setfor currency risk forecasts.

  4. Morgan Stanley: Global Economics Forum
     http://www.ms.com/GEFdata/digests/latest-digest.html

  5. SEI Investment Review
     http://www.seic.com/investmentreview
     "This site provides SEI's monthly report on the economy, markets, asset allocation and indices. It can be especially helpful for recent past return data."

  6. Research -- Global Financial Base
     http://www.gim.net/gfc/res.html
     "This site provide links to various research but international and domestic including daily reports from the Federal Reserve and international statistics."
     

• Management Consulting Firms

  1. McKinsey & Company
     http://www.mckinsey.com/publications_frame.html

  2. AT Kearney Intellectual Capital
     http://www.atkearney.com

  3. Hewitt Associates
     http://www.hewittassoc.com
     
     

• Humor

  1. Jokes about economists and economics
     http://netec.wustl.edu/JokEc.html

  2. Dilbert
     http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/

  3. CartoonBank
     http://www.cartoonbank.com
     THE source for cartoons from the New Yorker...

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