Meta-Sites
Investor Links:
A comprehensive resource with links and descriptions for over 12,000 financial web sites. Organized into 16 major categories and numerous sub-categories.
General Sites
Yahoo! Finance: Provides historical stock price information, resources related to investing, market news & commentary, banking, lending, insurance and small business.
Corporate Finance and Valuation
Edgar: Provides access to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulatory company filings, including quarterly reports (10-Q), annual reports (10-K), significant events such as sales of business units (8-K), and shareholder disclosures (13-D).
PRARS: The Public Register's Annual Report Service mails annual
company reports, prospectuses and 10K's within 24 hours at no charge, for over 3,600 public companies.
Asset Management (Investments)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC): Site resources include SEC rules and regulatory information, news and press releases, litigation information, tools and publications for the individual investor.
BigCharts:
Commercial site with user-friendly tools for researching and charting historical price data. Covers over 50,000 stocks, mutual funds and market indexes, 1985-present.
CBS Marketwatch: Commercial site providing access to market news, analysis, commentary and data.
BusinessWire: International newswire service providing full-text commercial news releases, and annual reports.
PR Newswire: Electronic newswire service, with RSS feeds available.
Fortune: Access to the Fortune 500, Fortune 1,000 and Global 500 lists.
Forbes:
Access to Forbes ranked lists, including the 200 Best Small Companies, the 400 Best Big Companies and the World's 2,000 Largest Companies.
Risk Management
Commodity Futures Trading Commission:
Federal agency site includes exchange, product and regulatory information for commodity futures, as well as access to market research reports and other publications.
Banking
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System: Web site of the central bank of the United States. Includes information on U.S. monetary policy, banking structure and regulations, financial research, data and more.
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (U.S. Dept. of the Treasury):
Charters, regulates, and supervises all national banks. Also supervises the federal branches and agencies of foreign banks.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC):
Independent federal agency that insures deposits in banks and thrift institutions. Also monitors and addresses risks to deposit insurance funds, such as bank or thrift institution failures.
Federal Housing Finance Board:
Independent federal agency that regulates the 12 FHL Banks created in 1932 to improve the supply of funds to local lenders that finance loans for home mortgages.
Office of Thrift Supervision (U.S. Dept. of the Treasury):
Federal agency that regulates federally-chartered and state-chartered savings associations, their subsidiaries, and their registered savings and loan holding companies.
National Credit Union Administration:
Independent federal agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions and manages the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund (NCUSIF).
International Financial Institutions Research Site: Links to
basic references, books and monographs, published articles and recent working papers on the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank Group and other international financial institutions.
European Central Bank:
Implements the monetary policy of the European Community and maintains the European System of Central Banks.
Currency Converter: Perform current or historical conversions for 164 world currencies.
Insurance
Insurance Information Institute:
Source of information and industry statistics for automobile, home, business, life, health, disability and other insurance products.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety:
A nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing automobile-related deaths, injuries, and property damage. Vehicle safety research, regulations and ratings, as well as insurance loss statistics.
Insurance Services Office (ISO): Major research organization for insurance company risk management and loss prevention. Site provides free access to reports and analyses, while other resources are subscription basis only.
Insure.com: Consumer insurance information service, widely considered one of the best resources for online insurance information.
Real Estate
Freddie Mac: A quasi-governmental organization chartered by the U.S. Congress in 1970 to promote an affordable housing market. Site provides information on mortgage products, debt securities, and real estate education.
Ginnie Mae: A government corporation operated by the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Site provides real estate information from both the consumer and investor perspectives.
U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development: Consumer-oriented federal site
with information relating to real estate and housing issues.
International Real Estate Digest (Ired):
Commercial meta-site providing over 50,000 real estate-related links of interest to real estate professionals.
NuWireInvestor: Commercial site devoted to investment news and analysis of domestic and international real estate, tax liens, deeds, more.
Organizations
American Banker's Association (ABA) :
The largest banking trade association in the country. Represents banks of all sizes, including community, regional and money center banks and holding companies, savings associations, trust companies and savings banks.
American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) : An independent, non-profit association promotes individual investor education in the areas of investment basics, financial planning and retirement, mutual fund evaluation, stock market investing and portfolio management.
National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD): The private-sector regulatory organization for the securities industry. Registers and oversees the activities of brokerage firms and securities representatives. Site provides regulatory and educational information.
National Association of Realtors (NAR): Association boasts over 1 million members worldwide. Engages in research, education and lobbying on behalf of the realty profession. |
