I believe you can state you are a CFA Level 1 candidate as long as you are registered for an exam.

I’m not sure if there is any value in stating you’ve failed e.g. CFA Level 1, since failing CFA Level 1 requires no…Read more

Personally, I would just get a new set – the curriculum has changed twice from 2019 to 2022. Potentially losing the exam reg fee and time wasted studying if you fail is just not worth it in my opinion.

If you’re interested in getting a CFA scholarship you can check out their scholarship guide here.

If you’re looking for EOC questions on the CFA Institute Learning Ecosystem, try this:

1. On the Learning Ecosystem, select Study Plan on the left column
2. Scroll to your chosen lesson
3. Search for “Practice Problems”

In other words – what is the equivalent annual % yield of this security?

The way I think about it is – if you had…Read more

The only other bit I could find was that the full CFA designation translates to Level 7:

Level six is the equivalent of a Bachelor’s degree, while level four equates to the first year of a degree. The CFA a…

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Send an email to info@cfainstitute.org and copy in scholarships@cfainstitute.org describing your issue and saying you need your early-bird offer reset.

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• Reviewing mocks you’ve done to work on something familiar to boost confidence
• Do some useful, non-study prep, like gathering your exam day items.

Also, 300Hours has a last-minute cram plan you can use.

And that’s what it says in your passport as your full name?

Good luck, and let us know how it turns out!

“Reinvestment” here does not mean investing activities, but rather the act of reinvesting capital back into the core business.

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Did you contact CFA Institute before the deadline?

Also, I wanted to know what happens if I have registered for an exam but in the scheduling process, I am not…

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• C$79,510 for CPA
• C$78,235 for CFA

In paper exams there wouldn’t be such an issue, so I suspect CFA Institute may not have a robust process to deal with your specific situation yet. i.e. say they believe you – how should they resolve this? Do they put you back in the exam with a best-estimate X number of extra minutes to…Read more

Once you register, you’ll receive an email with details on when you should schedule your exam (i.e. set your exact date, time and location of your exam).

Here’s a summary of all CFA exam deadlines.

• Take advice from candidates with a very large helping of salt.
• Separate fact from gossip.

My take on the issues you raise:

• There is a lot of chat on ‘decreasing value of CFA’ because of the recent changes to the exam format. This is a load of nonsense. CFA Institute is directly invested and incentivized to…

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This really depends on location and the job you’re looking at. You’ll have to do more research into the roles you’re targeting, talk to recruiters and people in the industry and see what you need to get and pass interviews.

Good luck!

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Going through the keystrokes, I got 9.9 as the answer for N, same as the slide shows, but if you enter 150 for PMT instead of -150, I get N = -5.55.

Was that your issue?

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Women’s Scholarship applications are reviewed by CFA Institute on a quarterly basis, so candidates can expect to hear back within 12 weeks.

You can read the full scholarship guide here.

Probably isn’t what you want to hear, but at least you know.

If you’re eligible to postpone your CFA exam due to Covid, CFA Institute should get it sorted. Eventually.

Keep us updated!

But yes, you can apply for a CFA scholarship for the following level, i.e. Level 2 for you. Even if you fail Level 1 you should be able to apply for a CFA scholarship for your following attempt.

2022 CFA Curriculum Changes: Our Super Summary

As to whether you should be getting new material, that’s your call. I personally would not try using outdated material, but everyone’s circumstances are different.

So unfortunately I don’t think you’ll get vignette highlighting during exam day.

That’s for one-off payments (i.e. when calculating CF0 to CF8). For CF9 and using the Gordon Growth Model you always use r – g.

For last-minute tips, this is pretty useful:

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I think what you’re asking is that sometimes the arithmetic average is used:

3%+6.5%+6.5%3=5.33%

and sometimes the geometric mean is used:

(1.03×1.065×1.065)13-1=5.32%

My thoughts on this:

• It depends whether the yield is compounded (whether it’s reinvested) or…

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So no, the round-trip trading commission in your example does not include bid-ask spreads, so it’s not double-counting.