Why not go check out the CFA Institute's website instead of listening to hearsay? If you continue to follow hearsay, I doubt you are capable to take on the CFA Program.

Here is the reference

"Enroll & Register
1. Meet the entrance requirements:
•Have a bachelor's (or equivalent) degree ◦ or be in the final year of your bachelor's degree program at the time of registration*
◦or have four years of professional work experience (does not have to be investment related)
◦or have a combination of professional work and college experience that totals at least four years. Part-time positions do not qualify, and the four-year total must be accrued prior to enrollment. "
http://www.cfainstitute.org/programs/cfapr...ages/index.aspx

"Become a CFA Charterholder
To earn a CFA charter, you must:
•Have four years of qualified investment work experience,
•Become a member of CFA Institute, "
http://www.cfainstitute.org/programs/cfapr...ages/index.aspx

"Work Experience Guidelines
http://www.cfainstitute.org/about/membersh...ence.aspx"

Those who told you "it could be in any line of work" is only applicable when you are registering to be the candidate of the CFA Program, not to be the CFA Charter. And to become a CFA charter, having 4 years of working experience in financial line is not sufficient, you need to further prove that your 4-year financial experience is related to investment decision making.

I just got the CFA Charter. My experience is 2 years in corporate finance, 1 year in corporate advisory, 8 months in financial modelling, 6 months in equty research and 3 years in IT business consultant. With that more than 50% of my work experience qualified in "Directly involved in the investment decision-making process" and "Engaged in responsibilities and/or producing a work product that informs or adds value to that process".

So for your case, I think you still can try to appeal to prove that out of your 4-year experience which was 50% directly involved in the investment decision-making (i.e. 2 years).

This post has been edited by kinwing: Apr 2 2013, 11:09 PM

Do you recommend me take both hardcopy and softcopy or only harcopy?

depends what kind of person are u? prefer to read a hard copy book or prefer reading article in pc?

pick which ever version can make you focus and study....

Both softcopy and original copy are the same study sources?

Any different between softcpoy and original copy?

Currently, im gonna complete in my degree. I'm still consider to take or not to take CFA. Any recommendation?

This post has been edited by reeve-826: Apr 6 2013, 09:11 PM

the difference is just, one is printed version, the other one is softcopy ...everything is the same...

have you read all over 60 pages of this CFA thread? it helps... also, try search cfa/equity research/investment banking in job careeer section, will give you a rough idea wat u wana be, and does CFA is the paper i wana pursue..

I chose both. Mainly to read it on my iPad and do exercise on the hardcopy.

Currently, im a degree student, I wish to start revision before registration. Anyone mind share their CFA softcopy to me =D

Hi,

I am new in this forum

Plan to take CFA L1 in Kasturi College.

Looking for any potential classmate that is going to Kasturi as well.

Need some companion to fight the war together.

Kasturi just release their timetable. PM me if you want to have a look at it.

Need some advice? Is that possible to score more than 70% in each subject in L1 paper as I plan to get back the rebate offer by Kasturi

Yes, it's possible to get more than 70% for each subject (Source: Done that myself).

Been quite a while since I heard from students from Kasturi in this forum. Lol

Hi all, I'm taking the Dec 2013 L1 exam Gonna buy calculator soon; In lowyat it's RM168 for Texas Instruments BAII plus. Is it a good price?? Anywhere else selling?

Also, anyone have any idea on the Schweser online study packages? They include video instruction in there too. Was wondering if anyone knows how's the teaching compared to the teaching in the centres around KL.

The price is reasonable. For the centers in KL (i.e. Kasturi, Noesis & Sunway), you can check out the reviews in this thread. Never tried Schweser videos before so can't tell. You doing December exam?

Ok thanks Yup December exam. I heard for L1 it's not good to do December exam?? Cos of timing issues with L2 and L3 or something like that. Is this true?

If you do the December exam, you'll only get your results at the end of January, leaving you to only start studying for Level II in February (that's about 4 months). But it can be done, have seen lots doing that.

Oh ok. The reason I registered for the December exam was that I was pass the first deadline for the June 2013 exam (there are three deadlines, first deadline was in Sept 2012 I think), so I would have to pay more. If I will receive my results next January, does that mean I'll have to pay extra for the June 2014 L2 exam since I'm registering quite late for it?? Or are there no 1st, 2nd, or 3rd deadlines for L2 onwards?

You'll miss the 1st deadline at that time.

In lowyat means lowyat forum, garage sales or lowyat complex or wat? lol. Hope RM168 is not second hand.. hahaha...
you can try go sek 14 there to buy. here is the address

3 Two Square, Suite A-28-06, No 2 Jalan 19/1, 46300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. company name is statworks








kinda sucks that i couldnt find any job in stockbroking/asset management industry with cfa lvl1 (not even an interview for associate position and local boutique as well)

current job is too bored, and i m looking forward for july to register lv2... thats my aim for now..

This post has been edited by siew14: May 10 2013, 08:09 AM

Potential CFA level 1 candidate here.
Engineer without any relevant finance experience or knowledge taking CFA examinations.

As the exams are in early December, thus I'm down to 5.5 months of material studying and 1 month of revision before the final date.

What i want to know is that is there an effective and cheap way to actually nail this exam? Coz currently i'm kinda lost in my syllabus and reluctant to go for classes as they costs a bomb, which is something i cannot afford.

Please someone help me out. Anyone with similar experiences?

You probably should start now given you do not have any prior knowledge. I think the difficult part about CFA is the breath of the materials covered.

There are video lectures prepared by kaplan schweser which I think is kinda comprehensive. Watch those video lectures, then study the notes. I think the part that made all the differences to me was the question bank - It's a software by kaplan whereby you can take topic by topic practice questions on your PC and each questions are supplied with detailed answer explanations. You will know where to find these materials

I don't find reading the textbook useful. In fact, there are so many non-critical information stuffed in the book I find hard to understand anything from the book.

If you have no previous knowledge on finance, I would recommend that you read through the textbooks at least once.