Finance Library — Index

Finance foundations across corporate, markets, derivatives, investments, accounting, insurance, real estate. Sister to Economics/, Law/, EnergyMarkets/.

Tier 1 — Deep notes (6 done)

TopicFile
Corporate finance & marketscorporate-finance-and-markets
Derivatives & quant financederivatives-and-quant-finance
Investments & portfolio managementinvestments-and-portfolio-management
Accounting foundationsaccounting-foundations
Insurance & actuarialinsurance-and-actuarial
Real estate financereal-estate-finance

Tier 2 — Specialty (15 done)

ESG/impact content is consolidated in esg-and-sustainable-finance-deep — the former esg-investing-and-impact note was merged into it on 2026-05-31. The two structured-products notes split cleanly: structured-products-deep is the canonical owner of the securitization/ABS/MBS/CLO/CDO/structured-note/pricing material, while structured-products-and-distressed-debt is rescoped to distressed debt and restructuring (its filename is kept to preserve inbound links).

TopicFile
ESG & sustainable finance (deep)esg-and-sustainable-finance-deep
Structured products (deep) — securitization, ABS/MBS, CLOs/CDOs, structured notes, pricingstructured-products-deep
Distressed debt & restructuring (filename retained: structured-products-and-distressed-debt)structured-products-and-distressed-debt
Market microstructure & HFTmarket-microstructure-and-hft
Options pricing (deep)options-pricing-deep
Fixed income (deep)fixed-income-deep
Portfolio construction & risk (deep)portfolio-construction-and-risk-deep
Financial risk managementrisk-management-and-var
Fintech architecture (deep)fintech-architecture-deep
Market making & liquidity provision (deep)market-making-and-liquidity-provision-deep
Crypto & tokenization structures (deep)crypto-and-tokenization-structures-deep
Private equity & venture capitalprivate-equity-and-venture-capital
US financial regulation (Fed/OCC/FDIC/SEC/CFTC/CFPB; Basel III; Volcker)finance-regulation
SEC disclosure regime (registration, periodic reporting, IPO process)sec-disclosure-regime
International tax & Pillar Twointernational-tax-and-pillar-two

Tier 3 — Family indexes

TopicFile
Index_index
Derivatives & instruments catalogderivatives-and-instruments-catalog
Fund types & index methodologyfund-types-and-index-methodology
Accounting frameworks & payment networksaccounting-frameworks-and-payment-networks

How to study this library

  • Learning paths_learn_next — “if you’ve read X, learn Y next” recommendation graph plus five named multi-step tracks (Quant trader, Investment banker, Portfolio manager, Actuary / insurance, Fintech founder).
  • Cross-cutting comparisons — two _compare_* notes that span the library: _compare_pricing-models, _compare_risk-measures.

Adjacent libraries

  • Economics — micro + macro + monetary underpinnings
  • Law — securities regulation + M&A practice
  • Math — quant finance underpinnings (stochastic calculus, time-series, copulas)
  • EnergyMarkets — commodities + carbon markets

25 items under this folder.