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Are Computer-Based CFA Exams ‘Less Prestigious’? Here’s Why We Don’t Think So

Zee Tan

23 Aug 2020

CFA

By Zee Tan Ever since CFA Institute announced that all levels of the CFA exam will be computer-based from 2021, there have been a small but vocal subset of candidates (and charterholders) insisting that this move diminishes the value and prestige of the CFA charter. Are they right? Probably not. Here's what they've been saying, what CFA Institute has been saying, and what we think. ​What have been candidates' comments been, exactly? There have been a lot of generic weeping and gnashing of teeth, ...