Anyone heard about this course? I'm sure that if u are interesting in financial & investment area, you should know about this .
anyone take the course or planning to take this course ? I'm going to take this course next year. so, hope can get some material from the guy/girl who already take CFA level 1. i dont mind to buy from you . But, I will appreciate if u r interesting in taking cfa, perhaps here are the place for us to discuss.

Thanks

Great thread.. Im interested in taking CFA as well... Im currently still on the way of getting my degree, planning to do CFA after my degree.. Would it be better if we have some working experience first before taking CFA..?? Which is the best coll/institution in msia providing the best lecturer for CFA..??

Can anybody explain further about this CFA? I heard about CFP before, but not CFA. How much the fee to take the course? Any requirement to take this exam? How long the duration of courses?

FTMS provides this course
Anywhere, if you r qualified with CFA, what is the career path???

FTMS does provide CFA, but only at their singapore division..
In malaysia, kasturi is the best institution that provide CFA.. For more details please visit Kasturi (CFA)

ANybody who is taking up CFA or successfully obtain CFA tittle would like to give some comment here..??

hi

I used to do be very interested in getting a CFA later on, so did a mini research in it. Hopefully my memory din fail me.

CFA is just another professional cert like ACCA, CPA etc. but difference is that CFA is specific to financial personnels and ACCA to accountants. Thing is, you don't really necessarily hav a degree in finance or some other biz related degree to take it. Pre-req is to hav at least 3 years exp in the financial field. It's usually a passport 4 ppl 2 the higher management of a company and it's not that easy to pass with passing rate less than 30% per year (not sure of the exact figure but one thing is certain, passing rate is low).

The way to obtain CFA is a bit similar 2 ACCA in the sense that you've got 2 pass paper 1 before you go on to take paper 2. There're 3 papers you'll need 2 pass before you can get the cert. If you fail, then you retake next year. If you didn't fail any of these paper, then you'll complete everythin in 3 years time. There's still one step away from puttin the CFA designation in your name card. My fren's bro passed his CFA but he still can't use his designation because of something but I can't remember. Oh ya, and accounting forms the 'meat' of the CFA curriculum (that's wat a Singapore university lecturer told me bout CFA. He's from Nanyang Technological University)

Btw, CFA isn't the only way. You can take an MBA specialisin finance or take up a post grad in quantitative finance. Quantitative finance is a very computational subject, so ur math gotta be good la. From wat i research, seemed like quite a lot will go into hedge funds after that. But then again, it highly depends on yourself. For more info, you can google it or search in wikipedia.

Hope this helps. Cheers!

btw, if ur really plannin 2 go far in the finance field, I think what counts is your exp, not so much of your formal education (but having a professional cert does give u an edge). Plus, to really go high, it is really very demanding and you'll practically hav no life esp in the beginning...

They say that finance is still not that big in Asia as compared to in US. So if you really wanna go ultra high, the market is in the US. You can see the country which produces the most CFA is north america. otherwise settling as a financial analyst in a company would do oso. depends on you mostly.

Nice details.
No experience required as I am a Uni student and I am taking paper 1 now.
Passing rate for Paper 1 is not that low, but I am not sure about the following papers.
If I am not wrong there are 5 papers, not 3.

yeah... it's either you've got a 4-year bachelor or 4 years of relevant working exp. and there's 3 levels of study in the CFA prog, used the wrong word. sorry.

This post has been edited by singularity: Oct 31 2006, 09:27 PM

thanx for sharing.. great info..
Im currently doing my ACCA n found that im interested n good at finance area.. Thats y im considering of CFA after my ACCA... Will it be much different between MBA specializing in finance (or instead, Master of Finance) n CFA..?? Which will be more preferred..?? Dont talk on their difficulties, the most important is, which (MBA v CFA) will have better future prospect..??

Hi, mind to let us know where are u taking ur CFA.?? AFAIK, most of the CFA courses are part-time, am i correct.??

Err, ACCA is 3years.. N my bachelor (collaboration with ACCA from OBU) is 2years..

Is only 3 Level what I'm sure

TO singularity,
Your friend's brother can not use the CFA designation in his name card even though pass all 3 level is because of he still need at least 4 years ( last time is 3 years) related working experience.

Great to see all of you are so excited in this thread, btw, hope that for those already took CFA Level 1, 2, 3 can share your knowledge and experience with all our junior (include me lah ). appreciate that....

hey,
i'm planning to take tis course next year,
V2- do u mind to tell me u enrolled to which college.

Well, in term of recognition. Unless you are getting MBA frm a reputable university such as harvard, oxford, and etc

else CFA would be a better recognise piece of cert. This is because the standard is being set & recognise globally.

erm, ya... but CFA is much tuffer.. then how about a phD vs CFA..?? btw, do we have any phD for business..??

hmm.. can i noe CFA stand for wat?

Chartered Financial Analyst.. Those in biz field would definately know this.. For more info, herez the link CFA webpage

thx bro... wil go n hv a look wif it.. hehe

I am taking this in my Uni, and I am a full-time student.

Is this being secretive or good to be brief..?? which uni in malaysia provide CFA course..??

Sorry.
Manchester Metropolitan University