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Management Consulting Career Path: Roles, Salaries etc

If you are interested in a career with high-value skills and expertise, where you can advise strategic and operational activities of organizations from the top level, then a management consulting career path could suit you well. Management consulting is a fairly broad field that encompasses a range of opportunities. However, at its heart, it is …

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How to Get Into Asset Management: 7 Basic Skills You Need

This article is an excerpt from the CFA Institute’s Future of Work in Investment Management Guide. A portfolio management career is highly sought after by CFA candidates and can be hard to come by. With high competition for these jobs, to better understand how to get into asset management sector, we asked human resources managers at asset …

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Looking for Good CFA Alternative Courses? Here Are 20 to Consider

Fed up of CFA exam’s low pass rates? Or just looking for something similar to the CFA qualification, but perhaps less intense? In this article, we’ve listed the best CFA alternative courses for professional and personal development, tailored for CFA candidates’ profiles. Covering finance, technology, language and health, if you’re looking for a suitable course …

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CFA Passing Score: MPS Estimates to Help Your Prep

[Updated for Aug 2025 exams – details below. To help our estimates, send your results PDF to results@300hours.com.] This article is about minimum passing scores. For CFA exam pass rates, see this article instead. IMPORTANT: Please do not use our MPS estimate as a basis to plead to CFA Institute to ask for a recheck. …

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