Selected Websites - Finance

Annual Reports

Annual Report Gallery

This site offers free annual reports (in PDF format).

Annual Reports (Investor Relations Information Network)

Company annual reports. Full text with graphics (in PDF format). Also, request free printed annual reports for many companies via E-mail.

Annual Reports Library

The Library contains over 1.45 million original copies of Annual Reports (and proxies) from corporations, foundations, banks, mutual funds and public institutions located around the world. This is a for fee service, but the site also has a useful collection of links to other annual report sites.

EdgarScan

An excellent (and free) Internet resource provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers, EdgarScan is an interface to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (SEC EDGAR) database.

Guide to filings

From the Securities Exchange Commission, this site explains each form.

Public Register's Annual Report Service

Searchable by industry or alphabetically by company name, this service provides free access to annual reports via an online order form.

Securities and Exchange Commission

This site links to the EDGAR database of of SEC filings, information about the SEC, and related sites.

General

Financewise

A search engine specifically designed for finance information.

Financial Data Finder

This page points to financial and economic data available on the Web and elsewhere. From the Department of Finance at Ohio State University.

FINWEB

Internet resources providing substantive information concerning economics and finance-related topics.

Ibbotson Associates' Knowledge Center

A collection of sites for various purposes related to investing.

IPO Central

Find IPOs by industry, underwriter, state or metro area. Or, browse IPOs alphabetically or chronologically by filing date. Includes prospectuses, analyses, news, and more.

National Association of Stock Dealers

Use this site for information on gaining membership. Also includes other useful links.

PriceWaterhouse Coopers National Venture Capital Study

"The Price Waterhouse Survey Research Center contacts more than 1,000 venture capital firms to gather data on each firm's investments during the prior quarter. The information collected and analyzed by Price Waterhouse includes investment by sector (for example, software, hardware & peripherals, semiconductors & equipment, and biotechnology & medical instrumentation), the investment round, total amount of the round and the co-investors."

Yahoo Finance

A wide selection of sources including Quotes, News, Reference Sources, and specific company information, SEC filings, and much more.

Fixed Income

Guide to Researching Bonds in the Watson Library

Use this as a guide to print and electronic resources for Bond research supplemented by the sites below.

Bond Market Association

The bond market trade association.

Bondsonline

Bonds news and resources including a useful FAQ entitled "The Bond Professor".

Brady Net, Inc.

Emerging Markets Companion

This site has asset pricing, research, news, and more for brady bonds, euro and non-euro bonds and more.

Federal Reserve

Select Domestic and International Research -- Statistics: Releases and historical data. There are weekly, monthly, and annual rates going back to 1977.

Investing in Bonds

Choose the Bond Market Gateway for research and resources on various types of bonds.

"Your Source for Emerging Markets Bond Information through the Internet".

Investing in Bonds

Investing in Bonds was created by the Bond Market Association to educate investors about the benefits of bonds investing. The Investor's Guide to Bond Basics educates investors about the types of bonds available, criteria for evaluating a bond, a guide to buying bonds, bond investment strategies and a glossary of bond market terms.

Hedge Funds

Baker Library Guide to Hedge Funds

For great background information as well as suggestions on sources. Check CLIO for Columbia's holdings of suggested titles.

Hedge Fund Association

Links to resources relevant to HF managers.

HFR - Hedge Fund Research

Maintains an internal database of 2500 hedge funds (U.S. and International). Publishes Money Manager Directory, which is entirely hedge funds. Also publishes a quarterly journal.

Magnum Funds

This site has links to articles, fund descriptions and more.

Managed Funds Association

The Association for Investment Professionals in Futures, Hedge Funds and other alternative investments.

MAR Hedge Fund

This site provides articles and rankings.

Investment Firms

Goldman Sachs

Morgan Stanley Technology Research/News

This site includes a number of useful full text research sources, including the Technology and Internet IPO Yearbook.

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Links to information about survey reports and other online publications.

Smith Barney

Includes links to quotes, and a glossary

Standard & Poor's

Includes detailed information (current and historical) on all of S&P's indices, including their individual components. Also provides up to the minute company news, as well as news on S&P’s credit ratings and indices.

Banking

American Bankers Association

Useful resources include BankersMart which is a free electronic marketplace that links bankers, suppliers and the ABA. BankersMart users can browse hundreds of product and service categories from hundreds of suppliers.

Bank Credit Analyst Research Group

This site provides links to information about BCA publictions, (the library subscribes to several of these), information about emerging markets, and more.

Bank for International Settlements

Link to publications, including conference, economic, working and policy papers, links to central banks, press releases, activities, and more.

Bank Rate Monitor

Check current rates on deposits, loans and credit card balances, along with news items on banks and banking.

The Beige Book

This site provides the full text of the latest issue of Current Economic Conditions, known as the "Beige Book," which is a summary of commentary by the Federal Reserve district banks on economic conditions in each district.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Statistics on Banking

The FDIC Statistics on Banking is a "quarterly publication that provides aggregate financial and structure information on FDIC-insured institutions, with summary totals by state and charter type." The latest figures for third quarter 1997 are now available.

Federal Reserve System

Links to the district banks of the Federal Reserve System. From the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Articles from the Federal Reserve Bulletin.

Commodities/Futures

Chicago Board of Trade

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Includes press releases, committments of traders, enforcement, speeches, and more.

Futures Magazine

Includes current issue and other resources.

Mutual Funds

Mutual Funds Links

This site has a good selection of resources for mutual funds-related research including articles, companies, research, financial calculators, fund families, glossaries, money market funds, and more.

Morningstar Mutual Funds

A great collection of resources on mutual funds.

Mutal Funds Interactive

A collection of resources including news, columns, and quotes.

Mutual Fund Connection

From the Investment Company Institute, this site has links to facts and figures, trends, issues, information about mutual funds and mutual fund shareholders and much more.

Stocks

ADR.com

From J.P. Morgan, this site offers a comprehensive presentation of the international American depositary receipts [shares of non-US companies trading in US] market.

Big Charts

Free intraday and historical charts, quotes and research on over 34,000 stocks, mutual funds, and indexes.

Depositary Receipts - Bank of New York

From the Bank of New York this website offers a comprehensive listing of American depositary receipts.

The HedgeHog's Small Cap and Penny Stock Page

Resources include IPO's, Weekly Market Overview, Wilshire and Russell indices, and links.

Historical Stock Price Data

Get the 52 week history for a stock by ticker. From Expert Software Systems.

MSN Money - Stock Screener

Screen for stocks based on industry, P/E ratio, market cap and more.

PC Quote

Stock quotations (delayed by 20 minutes) for shares traded in the U.S. and Canada. Arrow down the page to input companies ticker symbols & find their stock prices. This page includes links to a ticker-symbol lookup, and to real-time quotations for the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Pink Sheets

Pricing and financial information for the over-the-counter (OTC) securities markets.

StockMaster

This site includes one-year price and volume charts of all stocks listed on the NYSE, AMEX or NASDAQ, updated daily, and mutual fund charts. From Marketplace.net, Inc.

Stock Markets

African Stock Exchanges Association (ASEA)

Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges (FEAS)

Federation of European Stock Exchanges (FESE)

Ibero - American Federation of Stock Exchanges (FIABV) - Buenos Aires

International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)

Stock Markets (U.S.)

Collection of links to U.S. stock exchange home pages, and sources of current stock quotes, historical stock market data, and information about stock market indices. From Lousiana State University, which also provides Stock Markets (International).

Stock Markets of the World

Arranged geographically, links to individual exchange pages.

World Federation of Exchanges