Inc.'s 500/5,000 List Turns up Job-Search Gems

By Kyle Stock, August 23, 2009

It's hard to tell how healthy a finance shop is these days.

Some of the best are laying people off (i.e. Barclay's), while some of the shakiest have been shopping for talent (GMAC).

Inc. magazine's new 500/5000 list, released today, may prove to be a good barometer.

The roster ranks companies by revenue growth over the past four years. The list can be sliced a number of ways, including by industry, revenue, number of employees and location.

You won't find many bulge-bracket banks on there. Rather, Inc.'s methodology turns up surging start-ups and little-known firms that are cashing in on wrinkles in the market, like Graduate Leverage LLC, a Boston-area company that helps students land loans, or Parsam Technologies LLC (dubbed uMonitor), a Tennessee-based company that builds customized software platforms for finance firms.

National Retirement Partners, a California-based advisor to institutional investors, topped the 200 "financial services" companies on the list with revenue climbing from $351,000 in 2005 to $47.4 million in 2008.

BancVue Ltd., a Texas-based firm that makes online products for community banks, was No. 2 on the finance list (No. 23 overall).

No. 1 on the roster was Northern Capital Insurance Group, a Miami-based underwriter that pumped up revenues from $477,000 in 2005 to $95 million last year. Some 62 other insurers made the cut.

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