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By Christine Martinez Update 19 Mar 2020: The CFA June 2020 exams has been postponed to later dates. You can read our detailed update here. You’ve got enough stress with the CFA exams already – then comes the coronavirus. In the past few months, the coronavirus has caused a level of disruption – and financial market …
By hairyfairy (with input from Arbitrageur) Portfolio management is one of the most sought-after roles in finance. Trusted with (sometimes) billions of dollars, a portfolio manager makes investment decisions for high net worth funds or institutions according to their risk appetite and other preferences. It’s also one of the most relevant job profiles to CFA®️ …
Besides understanding the CFA curriculum, we’ve stressed time and again how important it is to understand the actual format of the CFA exam to stand a chance of passing. This becomes even more important when you reach CFA Levels II and III. To successfully navigate the item-set and essay format, time management, question comprehension and …
Most of you may know Bloomberg for their financial data software, terminals and colourful keyboards at work. Today, Bloomberg is extending their brand into the CFA exam preparation market with a new online learning platform. For those who know me (I’m an ancient dinosaur here at 300 Hours who took my CFA exams more than …
Sponsored If you can afford it, classroom training is pretty awesome for a number of reasons: it figures out what you need to be learning, and when you need to be learning it experiencing someone explaining a financial concept is often a lot easier to understand there’s interactivity – you can ask questions if you’re not …
Many CFA candidates take the CFA exams as part of a preparation to enter a career in finance. But are there other qualifications that may be useful as well? For this post, I took a closer look at Bloomberg’s financial foundations course, Bloomberg Market Concepts, taking the e-learning course over a one-week period to learn …
Would you like to have one of the most experienced instructors in the CFA industry guide you through your CFA exams? That’s the idea behind Chalk and Board. Although Chalk and Board is relatively new, it is led by Nathan Ronen, CFA, one of the most experienced figures in the business. We’ve recently had a chance …
Special offer: Kaplan UK is offering a free JumpStart Level II package which includes a free evening class, online class and materials, but you’ll need to sign up soon. Kaplan has a long standing reputation in the CFA space, with Kaplan Schweser leading the charge on CFA prep materials, and Kaplan UK providing world-class CFA …
Sponsored Several weeks ago we mentioned Fitch Learning had launched Cognition, their all-in-one CFA online suite of materials. Combining what technology today has to offer in online learning, we thought Cognition was a pretty solid product from what we could see. Fitch Learning also kindly gave us an all-access account for us to have a …
My first phone interview was a magnificent disaster. I fumbled my own bloody name, couldn’t go through my work experience without mixing up words, and I forgot the name of who I was speaking to. Basically, I was ripped to shreds. At the first round, over a phone, by HR. As interviewing is really one …