Wall Street career resources, sorted by the path you want

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All 95 resources, grouped by career

Every link in the library is listed below under the careers it fits. Search or filter to narrow the list, or open a career page for a learning sequence.

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• Investment Banking & Recruiting

  Advise companies on mergers, acquisitions and raising money, and build the models and presentations behind each deal.

  Skills that help: Accounting and the three statements, Valuation: DCF, comparable companies, precedent deals, Excel speed and accuracy, Clear writing and presenting.

  17 resources

• Financial Modeling & Valuation

  Build the spreadsheets that estimate what a business is worth and how it would perform under different assumptions.

  Skills that help: Three-statement modeling, DCF and multiples, Excel and formula discipline, Reading filings.

  11 resources

• Private Equity & LBOs

  Buy companies using a mix of investor money and debt, improve them, and sell them later.

  Skills that help: LBO modeling, Reading a business quickly, Debt structures, Judgment about risk.

  9 resources

• Venture Capital & Growth

  Invest in young companies, negotiate the terms of each round, and support founders through growth.

  Skills that help: Evaluating markets and founders, Term sheets and ownership math, Writing investment memos, Networking in a startup community.

  9 resources

• Project & Infrastructure Finance

  Arrange the debt and equity that pay for large assets such as power plants, roads and airports.

  Skills that help: Cash flow waterfalls, Debt sizing and ratios, Contracts and risk allocation, Project modeling.

  9 resources

• Fixed Income & Bonds

  Issue, price, trade and research bonds and other interest-rate products for governments, companies and investors.

  Skills that help: Bond math: price, yield, duration, Reading yield curves, Market knowledge, Quick mental arithmetic.

  11 resources

• FX Rates & Trading

  Help clients buy, sell and hedge currencies and interest-rate exposure, and make prices in those markets.

  Skills that help: Derivatives basics: forwards, swaps, options, Macro awareness, Probability and quick math, Composure under pressure.

  7 resources

• Credit Leveraged Finance & Restructuring

  Lend to or advise companies that carry significant debt, and work out solutions when a borrower cannot pay.

  Skills that help: Credit analysis, Capital structure and legal priority, Financial modeling, Negotiation.

  6 resources

• Real Estate Finance

  Finance, buy and develop property using debt, equity and carefully modeled returns.

  Skills that help: Property underwriting, Cap rates and debt terms, Equity waterfalls, Market research.

  3 resources

• Corporate Banking & Treasury

  Lend to companies, or run a company's cash, payments, funding and financial risk from the inside.

  Skills that help: Credit and cash flow analysis, Working capital, Banking relationships, Attention to controls.

  4 resources

• Research & Data

  Gather and check the numbers behind pitches, reports and investment decisions.

  Skills that help: Finding primary sources, Reading filings, Spreadsheet analysis, Citing data correctly.

  7 resources

• Podcasts & Audio

  Hear practitioners describe how deals, markets and careers actually work.

  Skills that help: Active listening, Looking up unfamiliar terms, Taking notes on deals, Connecting stories to coursework.

  14 resources

Hidden gems

Lesser-known resources that are easy to miss: student club guides, official data and specialist courses.

• SFU Investment Club resources

  Recruiting, DCF and stock-pitch workshop decks and models.

  Hidden gemFreeWebsite & articles

• UCLA Bruin Finance Society resources

  Finance workshop PDFs, Excel sessions and interview orientation.

  Hidden gemFreeWebsite & articles

• Duke 35+ free IB resources

  Discover additional university-verified recruiting resources.

  Hidden gemFreeWebsite & articles

• Street of Walls training library

  Work through old but helpful banker-style accounting, paper LBO and valuation exercises.

  Hidden gemFreeCourse

• Multiple Expansion

  Explore PE and investment-banking modeling with an older archive.

  Hidden gemFreeWebsite & articles

• Searchfunder

  Learn about search funds and acquisition entrepreneurship.

  Hidden gemAccount-basedWebsite & articles

• Venture Deals free forms

  Study Series A term sheets and investor-rights documents.

  Hidden gemFreeModels & templates

• European Investment Bank EPEC PPP guide

  Study how public-private infrastructure transactions work.

  Hidden gemFreeWebsite & articles

• New York Fed primary dealer statistics

  Analyze dealer flows, positions and financing.

  Hidden gemFreeResearch & data

• New York Fed tri-party repo statistics

  Study secured funding markets, haircuts and collateral.

  Hidden gemFreeResearch & data

• EMMA municipal bond yield curves

  Study actual municipal yield curves and market levels.

  Hidden gemFreeResearch & data

• ICMA repo and bond market practice

  Explore repo, settlement, bond trading and collateral management.

  Hidden gemFree public materialsWebsite & articles

• CFTC Commitments of Traders and swaps data

  Explore public aggregated futures positioning by trader type.

  Hidden gemFreeResearch & data

• New York Fed Markets API

  Build rates and market data projects with APIs.

  Hidden gemFreeResearch & data

• Octus credit podcast network

  Listen to leveraged loans, CLOs, restructuring and credit issues.

  Hidden gemFree episodes and paid intelligencePodcast

• Structured Finance Association SFAcademy

  Learn securitization, ABS and transaction structures.

  Hidden gemFree public modulesCourse

• The Deal podcast network

  Learn real private equity deals, distressed M&A and restructuring.

  Hidden gemFreePodcast

• The Wall Street Lab

  Interviews across IB, PE, trading and asset management.

  Hidden gemFreePodcast

• Flirting with Models

  Learn how quantitative investment managers build strategies.

  Hidden gemFreePodcast

A study order that works

1. 1. Get the course basics right

   Time value of money, NPV, bond pricing and WACC are the base for every interview and every model. If a step feels shaky, fix it first. See the resources.

2. 2. Learn how a company is valued

   Work through a full valuation lecture and rebuild its spreadsheet from a blank page. See the resources.

3. 3. Choose a path to explore

   Read about banking, private equity, credit, venture or real estate and pick one to go deeper on for a month. See the resources.

4. 4. Practice the technical questions

   Answer questions out loud, then check where you hesitated. The pauses show what to study next. See the resources.

5. 5. Track real application windows

   Use a tracker, confirm every date with the employer, and set reminders two weeks before each deadline. See the resources.