Global Research Fellowship Finance research mentorship for high-school students
For students already thinking in markets

Mentoring the future of Wall Street.

GRF is built for high-school students who keep asking finance questions after everyone else has moved on. Why do currencies snap? Why does sovereign debt look quiet for years, then become the whole story by Tuesday morning? Why do investors trust one country and punish another? Students work with finance, macro, academic, and research mentors to turn those questions into serious research.

Mentor quality is the product A strong mentor does more than check progress. They press the question, tighten the argument, and spot weak logic before a student mistakes tidy writing for good research.
Mentor background and commentary connected to
01 / Mentor bench

Work with people who push the thinking.

Students work with mentors across finance, macroeconomics, academia, and research. The point is judgment. Better questions. Cleaner logic. Less fluff.

02 / Research culture

Build a view, then defend it.

A topic is easy. A real argument takes work. Students learn to use evidence, handle feedback, and explain why their position holds under pressure.

03 / Finance focus

Finance gives the work a spine.

Macro, credit, FX, banking, geopolitics, energy, and capital flows give students a serious lane. Fewer random topics. Sharper work.

Mentor bench × finance desks

Built by finance minds for the next generation of Wall Street.

GRF was created for students who want to study finance before most people their age can even define it. Our mentors bring experience across macroeconomics, research, academia, and institutional finance, helping students build work in the language of markets, policy, capital, and risk.

Why GRF exists Good students do not need another generic research prompt. They need someone who can push the question, test the argument, and make the work sharper than they thought it could be.
Mentor bench Experience first

Mentor quality comes first.

BANK

Top banking background

Mentors with experience around markets, capital, risk, and the standards expected in serious financial work.

MACRO

Macroeconomists

People who understand cycles, policy, sovereign risk, currencies, inflation, and why capital moves when it does.

ACAD

Professors

Academic mentors who help students move past summary and into structure, evidence, methodology, and real revision.

RES

Researchers

Mentors who know how to turn a loose interest into a clean question, a source base, and a final argument with a point of view.

Research desks

Where students build
01 Macro

Macro strategy

Growth, inflation, rates, policy, debt cycles, and the forces that decide where capital moves next.

02 Credit

Credit markets

Private credit, refinancing pressure, covenant quality, liquidity risk, and stress beneath the surface.

03 FX

FX & sovereign risk

Currency regimes, reserve pressure, balance of payments, political risk, and sovereign fragility.

04 Geopolitics

Geopolitical finance

China, industrial policy, sanctions, trade routes, resource security, and how power shows up in markets.

05 Private

Private markets

Private equity, venture, private credit, tokenization, valuation opacity, and capital formation outside public markets.

06 Stability

Banking stress

Deposits, duration risk, regulation, financial stability, and the weak points that appear when cycles turn.