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GUEST COMMENT: I passed all three levels of the CFA in 18 months. This is how I tackled Level III
I’ve already written about my tactics for passing CFA Levels I and II. Now I’d like to share my method of passing CFA Level III. As I’ve pointed out on previous occasions, I managed to pass all three levels in a period of 18 months. The big problem with Level III is complacency. You get [...]
GUEST COMMENT: The final countdown to the CFA Programme June Examinations
(Or The Final Countdown (you have to hum the tune as you read this) 4 WEEKS TO GO… By now you should have finished your first reading of the CFA curriculum. If you haven’t then get a move on, time is ticking away. Make a plan for the critical phase that’s coming up: revision. There [...]
GUEST COMMENT: The parable of the Great Analyst Cull of 2002-2003
Listen carefully, for I am going to tell you a tale: the tale of the Great Analyst Cull of 2002-2003. It is a parable of brutal culling, followed by years of dry pitching, followed bounteous riches. It may offer sustenance in the horrid years ahead. For those without the folk memory of the Great Cull, [...]
GUEST COMMENT: How I passed CFA Level II only four months after passing Level I
In January 2009 I passed the CFA Level 1 qualification, using the method I elaborated for you before. This gave me around four months to prepare for CFA Level II. Needless to say, CFA Level II is hard. In fact, it is very hard. To be frank, I thought I’d failed. I was mistaken. So, [...]
This is how good you’ll have to be to compete with the best students in Europe, the Middle East and Africa for a job as an analyst
Ever year, the CFA Institute runs the, ‘CFA Institute Investment Research Challenge (IRC)’. An annual competition for university students across the world, it requires students who enter to work in university-based teams and put together a presentation on a company in the style of an analyst working in an investment bank or fund management firm. [...]
These are the roles a CFA can help you attain in the Middle East
Since the financial crisis of 2008, the number of people in the Middle East seeking the security of a professional qualification has risen dramatically. More people are taking MBAs and finance-related MScs, but there’s also been a proliferation of financial professionals undertaking the Chartered Financial Analyst qualification. In 2008, there were around 645 CFA charterholders [...]
These are the jobs that CFA Charterholders do in the UAE and these are the financial services firms that employ them
Are you thinking of studying for the CFA Charter? Are you wondering whether the CFA is relevant to your profession and who might employ you when you’ve completed all three exams? The CFA Institute has all the answers. A new tool shows precisely how many people have gained the CFA Charter in each country, and what they [...]
The pass rate is down, the cheating is up, is the CFA worth the work?
Results to the December 2011 Level 1 CFA exam are out: 38% of people passed. This is a significant minority and a little depressing in light of the fact that as recently as 2009, 46% of December Level 1 candidates got through. Why do so few people pass? Maybe they’re just not good enough. Ed [...]
Why holding a CFA will greatly enhance your chances of getting a job at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
Relatively speaking, with around 1,000 charter-holders, the CFA is not a particularly prevalent qualification within the Middle East. If you have aspirations to work for the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund in world, however, you should consider undertaking it. The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority employs 93 CFA charter-holders, which is the largest number of any [...]
How beneficial is an MBA to your career prospects in the Middle East?
Until recently, an MBA gained in the Middle East was barely worth the paper it was written on. However, a proliferation of courses taught on-the-ground by top business schools over the last five years has helped salvage the qualification’s reputation in the region. The first thing to point out is that these qualifications don’t come [...]
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