Alumni Insights
Interview Prep Resources
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Wall Street Prep This link opens in a new window
Wall Street Prep has partnered with Kellogg School of Management to offer students unlimited access to Wall Street Prep’s entire catalog of online self-study courses, including Excel & PowerPoint crash courses, financial modeling and LBO modeling, and technical finance interview prep. Register for an account with your Kellogg email address to access the largest online catalog of Applied Finance courses used by over 150 investment banks, private equity firms, investment funds, and Fortune 1000 companies to train their finance professionals every year. Once you have registered for an account, view and select courses from the Full Course Library dashboard.Courses include Demystifying Asset Management, Buy-Side Financial Modeling, and more.
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Street of Walls: Finance Training CoursesIncludes Investment Banking Interview & Technical Training, Private Equity Training, and Hedge Fund & Quantitative Hedge Fund Training.
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Quant QuestionsTutorials & practice for core quant interview topics, including over 200 questions informed by real world interview experience with top finance firms.
Club Prep Materials
Quant Interview Prep Books - Available at CMC Library
Kellogg Faculty Publication
Analyst Reports: Industries
Impress a Recruiter With Your Industry Knowledge
Industry Analyst Reports: Investment Management
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IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Provides analyst reports for hundreds of US industries. Search by company name or industry keyword to find relevant reports.
Watch a brief
on how to find industry analyst reports
Don't see the one you need? Watch this 
to find out how find a specific industry report!
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Statista This link opens in a new window
Provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.
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Mergent Market Atlas This link opens in a new window
Corporate information covering over 50,000 US and foreign public companies, current and historical (past 15 years). Company profiles include key company statistics, financials, ratios, business segments, ESG/sustainability info, stock market values and ownership data, executive compensation data, and downloadable company reports.
Access SEC and SEDAR filings, LSEG stock rating reports, ESG rating reports, Key Comparisons for ICB Industries, FTSE Russell ICB Industry Reports, Russell US Indexes, Economic Leading Indicators analysis, US Economic Snapshot & Advance Retail Sales for 3-Year, 10-Year, and 20-Year data, and Dun & Bradstreet's Country Insight reports.
Investment Research
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Bloomberg Terminals
Locate historical and real-time global market and economic data and news and historical and current financial information for U.S. and international public companies
Available in the Student Computing Lab 2415 (Global Hub, second floor across from CMC Library)
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Capital IQ This link opens in a new window
Features detailed financial data on public and private companies, investment firms, M&A, private equity, and capital transactions, as well as extensive information on people. Screener tool allows you to screen for companies, equities, transactions, people and more, based on more than 5,000 financial and 3,000 qualitative data points.
- Create your own account using your Kellogg email address. SSO is not available for this resource.
- Capital IQ is available ONLY to Kellogg students, faculty and staff with an active Kellogg email address.
- Capital IQ Use Agreement: Capital IQ is for academic and career research purposes only.
- The Excel plug-in is not available under the Kellogg access to this platform.
NOTE: You must use GlobalProtect VPN to access the database if you are connecting from off-campus.
Access information for FTMBA students
Access information for Evening & Weekend MBA students
Access information for Executive MBA students
If you've already created an account, log in at CapiltalIQ.com
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FRED Economic Data This link opens in a new window
Short for Federal Reserve Economic Data, FRED is an online database consisting of economic data time series from national, international, public, and private sources. Download, graph, and track 819,000 US and international time series from 110 sources.
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Morningstar Investing Center This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive stock database that includes independent data and analysis on stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded products, and companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ®, and the American Stock Exchange.
Online access is for one simultaneous user, please click on "Sign Out" at the top right, then close your browser to end your session.
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Value Line This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks in 97 industries, the stock market, and the economy.
Access to traditional online subscription to Value Line Investment Survey (Historical Reports) also available.
Some features do not function for off campus and wireless users. Use of Google Chrome browser provides a better experience.
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FinMasters: Investing Industry PrimersThis series of articles looks at specific industries and at industry-specific factors that affect investments. The goals are to highlight specific risks, clarify confusing terminology and explain industry-specific metrics for valuation.
Industry Pathways and Trends
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MBA-Exchange: Financial Services Industry Report
Industry-specific insights and recent recruiting data, including top employers, hiring trends, jobs by job area, and jobs by location. You must create your MBA-Exchange account with your Kellogg email address to view.
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Barings ViewpointsRead, watch and listen to the latest insights from the Barings global investment teams.
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Berkshire Hathaway Letters to ShareholdersThirty years of thinking from the most successful investor in the world
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CB Insights: What is a SPAC?You must first create your CB Insights account to access the research.
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Moody's Global Risk Analysis InsightsResearch and actionable insights to bring clarity to decision-making for market participants.
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Preqin Primer: Family Offices in 2024: Lessons on Investing in AlternativesCreate a free Preqin account to access the report.
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Preqin Report: Alternatives in 2025This complimentary report explores the impact of macroeconomic headwinds and market volatility on alternative assets this year and beyond, drawing on key points from the industry’s most comprehensive annual review. Create a free Preqin account to access the report.
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Preqin Report: Women in Alternatives 2024Preqin's Women in Alternatives 2024 report draws on over 350,000 profiles across the asset classes to measure the trends among active fund managers and investors. We aim to provide greater transparency around workplace demographics and to amplify the conversations about women in the industry, the importance of representation, and how companies can best support DEI efforts.
Create a free Preqin account to access the report.
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WallStreetMojo: Free Video TutorialsFree video tutorials on Investment Banking, Financial Modeling, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Accounting, and Excel, with a strong focus on theory, application, and career prospects.
Vault Resources - Investment Management
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Vault This link opens in a new window
Vault.com provides in-depth intelligence on what it's really like to work in an industry, company or profession—and how to position yourself to land that job.
Browse company rankings, career guides, valuable career and industry insights, and find the career advice you need to launch your career. Guides provide insider insight into various roles within industry sectors. Register for an account with your Kellogg email address.
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Vault Career Guide to Wealth Management, Fourth EditionRegister for an account with your Kellogg email address to access.
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Vault Investment Management GuidesRegister for an account with your Kellogg email address to access.
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Vault: Best Internships for FinanceRegister for an account with your Kellogg email address to access.
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Vault: The Best Accounting Firms to Work ForRegister for an account with your Kellogg email address to access.