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CFA Level 1 Alternative Investments: Our Cheat Sheet

Sophie Macon

20 Oct 2024

CFA, CFA Level 1

Note: this cheat sheet is updated for the latest 2024 and 2025’s curriculum. Whilst a relatively smaller topic weight in the overall Level 1 exams, CFA Alternative Investments is an important topic career-wise if you work in asset management as it is expected to capture 49% of global asset management revenue by 2024. I personally found this topic very interesting - a nice break from the traditional fixed income and equity. It is the perfect topic to master to maximize your exam ...

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CFA Refund and Withdrawal Policy, Clearly Explained

Zee Tan

20 Oct 2024

CFA, Exam Day & Results

‘How to get a CFA exam refund’ has never really been a frequently asked question, but then the pandemic happened. This has triggered a few changes in the CFA refund policy since then. In this ...

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Free CFA Level 1 Mock Exam: 90 Practice Questions, Full Answers & Analytics

Zee Tan

19 Oct 2024

CFA, CFA Level 1

To access our free mock exams for other levels, check out our Free Guides section. Hope your CFA preparations are going to plan! If not, check out our guide to finishing up your notes, so that you can ...

CFA Passing Score for Level 1, 2 and 3

CFA Passing Score: Here’s the Latest MPS Estimates

Zee Tan

18 Oct 2024

CFA, Exam Day & Results

[Updated for Aug 2024 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: ...

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CFA Pass Rates: How Hard Are The CFA Exams?

Sophie Macon

17 Oct 2024

CFA, Exam Day & Results

[Updated for Aug 2024 exams] CFA pass rates are a factor in most candidates' consideration on whether to sign up for the CFA exams. If pass rates are too high, it lacks prestigiousness. If ...

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Comic: The 12 Steps to Answering A CFA Practice Question

mikey

17 Oct 2024

Study Break

If you’re taking the CFA exams soon, you must be pretty tired of studying by now. (Here’s how to prevent CFA burnout, by the way.) Although we mostly write articles here at 300Hours, I ...

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Passed CFA Level 3? Now What?

Zee Tan

16 Oct 2024

CFA, Exam Day & Results

Just received your CFA Level 3 results? We hope it's good news. Commiserations to those who did not pass, you've worked so hard on this so far, do take some time to overcome your ...