Mentoring the future of Wall Street.
GRF is for high-school students who are genuinely curious about finance and markets. Choose the small-group Research Desk Cohort or private 1:1 mentorship, and work with a practitioner mentor on real market questions — currencies, sovereign debt, credit, capital flows — building research you can defend.
Research mentorship was built for the lab. We built it for the markets.
Most research programs treat finance as a small part of economics, supervised by academics who study the markets from the outside. GRF is built entirely around finance — the mentors, the questions, and the standard the work is held to.
- Mentors who have worked in markets. Students learn from people who have actually worked in finance, not only studied it.
- Real market questions. Students research live topics like sovereign risk, FX, credit, and capital flows, rather than generic assignments.
- A selective, one-on-one fellowship. Each student works directly with a mentor to produce a paper they can stand behind.
Students are mentored by people who have worked in the markets they study.
Our mentors trained at Ivy League and top-ranked universities and built their careers in finance — at firms like J.P. Morgan — with market commentary featured across national press. That level of supervision is what gives a student's research real weight.
Why research helps you stand out in admissions.
Selective colleges read thousands of strong applications. What's rarer is evidence that a student can take on a real question and see it through to a conclusion. That is exactly what independent research shows, and it is the kind of work college asks for.
It shows initiative grades can't.
Strong grades show a student can do the work they're given. A research project shows they can find a question of their own and follow it through — the kind of initiative admissions officers look for and rarely see.
Finance research is rare.
Most high-school research is in the sciences. A serious finance project stands out simply because so few students attempt one.
Good supervision makes it credible.
Research guided by mentors from Wall Street and top universities reads as the real thing — closer to a genuine credential than a school assignment.
Learn from people who know the field.
Every student is paired with a mentor who understands finance and research. They help you ask better questions and build a clearer, more rigorous argument.
Form a view, then learn to defend it.
Choosing a topic is the easy part. Over the program, students learn to work with evidence, take feedback, and explain why their conclusions hold up.
A real focus on finance.
Students work in macro, credit, FX, banking, geopolitics, energy, and capital flows — genuine areas of finance, rather than scattered, unrelated topics.