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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: 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 jobs that CFA Charterholders do in Ireland 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 [...]
If you want to get a job in Irish financial services in future, you will probably need to be qualified
A change is underway in Irish financial services recruitment. As of last month, the Central Bank of Ireland has begun implementing new fitness and probity regulations that will affect the way firms hire staff. The regulations won’t be fully implemented until December 2012, but with 11 months to go, it’s worth preparing for their arrival. Under [...]
The exceedingly popular government asset management jobs
The National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF) is on the hunt for a new investment director, and NAMA is in the process of building its portfolio management team. Comparatively speaking, this is a flurry of hiring activity for the country’s asset management sector, and recruiters are expecting competition to be stiff. In a rather understated job [...]
Guest comment: The CFA charter is the gold standard
John Bowman, CFA head of educational products tells us why having ‘Chartered Financial Analyst’ (CFA) after your name will make all the difference to your career. While supervising the examination in Los Angeles last Saturday, it struck me how much growth the CFA Program has experienced in the last decade. Over 126,000 candidates in more [...]
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