CFA

Dear reyansh,
Hi,
One, is the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) or the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation more difficult to obtain?
First, be aware that the CFA and CFP designations usually attract different students.
The CFA tends towards those interested in financially analytical careers. For example, investment analyst, portfolio management, and corporate treasury functions desire CFAs.
The CFP designation is geared towards people wanting to provide financial planning advice to individual clients.
Most people with a CFP title will do become Financial Planner or Independent Financial Advisor. Therefore, you can work for a bank, an investment firm or an insurance company. While you can get a job in other type of companies, the above mentioned will be the bigger employer for CFP.
Most jobs requiring a CFA title will obviously include an analytical part where you have to work with spread sheet, graphs and other data. The most common jobs are trader or financial analyst (concentrating on a specific investment category or industry)
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Hi Roni,
CFA (Chartered Financial Analysts) is a professional qualification offered by the CFA Institute to financial analysts. A CFA qualification validates your knowledge of security types and investment along with the knowledge of quantitative methodologies for analyzing securities that is assessing their value and identifying their underlying risks.
Eligibility:
For CFA:
One must have a bachelor's (or equivalent) degree or be in the final year of your bachelor's degree program at the time of registration.
You can refer the link for more required information:
https://www.cfainstitute.org/programs/cfaprogram/register/Pages/index.aspx
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Hi Roni,
CFA (Chartered Financial Analysts) is a professional qualification offered by the CFA Institute to financial analysts. A CFA qualification validates your knowledge of security types and investment along with the knowledge of quantitative methodologies for analyzing securities that is assessing their value and identifying their underlying risks.
Eligibility:
For CFA:
One must have a bachelor's (or equivalent) degree or be in the final year of your bachelor's degree program at the time of registration.
Career Prospects:
Apart from Banking, Insurance, Corporate Sectors and Finance, Leasing Companies, CFA charter-holders have openings in sectors like Railways, Reserve Bank of India and Financial Institutions like ICICI, IDBI, IFCI and UTI, etc.
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Dear Ravi,
After acquiring CFA, portfolio managers, research analysts and executives are the most popular career areas in which there are a lot of career prospects. The further jobs roles are listed below:
1. Portfolio Manager
2. Research Analyst
3. Chief Executive
4. Consultant
5. Corporate Financial Analyst
6. Financial Advisor
7. Relationship Managers, Sales, & Marketing
8. Risk Manager
9. Investment Banking Analyst
10. Manager of Managers
11. Accountant/Auditor
12. Strategist
13. Trader
14. Broker
15. Performance Measurement Specialist
16. Private Banker
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Hi Lavisha,
CFA (Chartered Financial Analysts) is a professional qualification offered by the CFA Institute to financial analysts. A CFA qualification validates your knowledge of security types and investment along with the knowledge of quantitative methodologies for analyzing securities that is assessing their value and identifying their underlying risks.
Eligibility:
One must 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.
Career Prospects:
Apart from Banking, Insurance, Corporate Sectors and Finance, Leasing Companies, CFA charter-holders have openings in sectors like Railways, Reserve Bank of India and Financial Institutions like ICICI, IDBI, IFCI and UTI, etc.
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