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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: CFA – never again…
You remember that scene in I-Robot where Will Smith chases “Sonny the killer robot” into a warehouse of 1,000 look-alike robots waiting in rows? You do? You now understand the vista at London’s Excel centre on CFA exam day. To continue this metaphor, you might recall that the 1,000 “ordinary robots” were mindless automatons, with [...]
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 qualifications that will get you a financial services job in the UK today
Back in January, we looked at the financial services qualifications that were most in demand in the UK, and the jobs you could do with them. Two months on, some things are unchanged: based on job adverts on eFinancialCareers, ACAs are still the most in-demand qualifications in the UK, followed by ACCAs, followed by CIMAs. [...]
Late Lunchtime Links: In 2007, a 27 year old hedge fund manager earned more than $10m. Your chances of unemployment appear reduced by a CFA Charter
In yet another rumination upon the fact that things aren’t what they used to be, the Times has spoken to a hedge fund manager who laments his lost lifestyle. Jamie (not his real name), says he was earning more than $10m aged 27. He allegedly attended his local state school before Oxbridge, before working for [...]
If you study the CFA, you will have a 38% chance of earning more than £80k
As a follow-up to our recent article on the difficulty of passing the CFA and our previous article on pay per qualification, we’d like to follow-up with a closer look at the compensation enjoyed by those who pass the CFA exams. This has long been something of a mystery. The last time the CFA Institute [...]
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 [...]
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