FINANCIER

Money makes the world go around

Financier, is an elegant term for a person who handles large sums of money, usually involving money lending, financing projects, large-scale investing, or large-scale money management. The term is French, and derives from finance or payment. The term financier has upscale and haughty connotations, and the stereotype portrayed by the term is typically of a wealthy and powerful person.

A financier today can be someone who makes their living from investments, particularly in investing in up and coming companies and businesses. A financier makes money through this process when his or her investment is paid back with interest or from a certain percentage of the company awarded to them as specified by the business deal. The word financier also is synonymous with someone who handles money in any form, noted especially for his or her skill in doing so. By today's standards both a personal accountant and a stockbroker could then be considered financiers.

NOTABLE FINANCIERS

Warren Buffett
Anthony J. Drexel
Jay Gould
Calouste Gulbenkian
Carl Icahn
Kirk Kerkorian
Edward Lampert
Michael Milken
J. P. Morgan
T. Boone Pickens
Nathan Mayer Rothschild
Rothschild banking family of France
Russell Sage
Jacob Schiff
Haym Solomon
George Soros
Ruben Vardanian
Rodrigo Aguirre Menezes
Shaukat Aziz
Sandiaga Uno

Job prerequisites

Officially, there are no degrees or schooling needed to be called a financier as it is a term to describe someone who handles money. Certain financier avenues do require degrees and licenses including stockbrokers, public treasurers, trust fund managers, and accountants. Investing, on the other hand, has no requirements and is open to all by means of the stock market or by word of mouth requests for money.

Types of financiers

• Accountants

• Stockbroker

• Treasurer

• Trust fund manager

REFERENCES and LINKS:

• Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship

• Entrepreneur Magazine, focused on starting and running small businesses

• About Listing of Famous Entrepreneurs

• About Listing of Entrepreneur Associations and Support Organizations

• Entrepreneur Interviews nPost.com

• University and College Entrepreneur Societies, a directory hosted by Rice University.

• Frontiers of Entrepreneurial Research, index of research in entrepreneurship

• Fadi Ghandour: A Rare New-Economy Entrepreneur - Dinar Standard Profile on ARAMEX CEO

• bCentral - Advice on planning and forming your own business in the UK

• Entrepreneur resources

• Business start-up resources

• Online Entrepreneur & Investor Matching Networks

• Entrepreneur Discussion Group, Moderated no spam allowed

• Singapore Entrepreneurs Blog, Moderated, Focus on Entrepreneurial Education

• Harvard Alumni Startups [2] Moderated email list for founders plus many offline events for entrepreneurs at all levels of experience. (No Harvard affiliation required to participate.)

• Angel Capital Association

• Online Angel Investor Matching

• European Business Angel Network

• University of New Hampshire Center for Venture Research

• Books about angel investing

MONEY FINDER

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