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Thanks for sharing this with us @christine! It seems like a consistent trend.
I wonder what are the profiles of these candidates who have finance background but yet not working in finance, yet are taking CFA? Seems counterintuitive in certain ways, for example I’d have thought that it’d be easier for them (or less of a need) to take CFA if I assume they want to switch into finance? So I wonder if there’s a sample bias there in the sense that in general, finance educated, yet currently not working in finance CFA candidates are of “lower quality” in some ways?
Just a thought of an alternative possibility…