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CFA adds AI and fintech to curriculum

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
The CFA Institute is introducing artificial intelligence, fintech and machine learning to its curriculum as of next year. The Institute updated its subject areas in an effort to arm candidates with the skills and knowledge needed for success in the ...

Record number of Australians seek CFA qualification

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
More than 10,000 Australian candidates have signed up to sit the CFA exams this financial year - a jump of 36% over the previous 12 months. Last year, 7606 candidates registered for the exams held at three test centres in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. ...

More than half fail CFA exam

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
Only two-in-five people working in the investment industry passed the first stage of the most recent Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) examination. Of the 68,086 candidates who took the Level I exam in December last year, 57% failed to progress to the ...

Less than half pass CFA exam

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
More than half of new Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) candidates failed the first level of the six-hour examination, recent results from the CFA Institute shows. Of the 63,281 global candidates who took the mid-year Level I sitting (also offered in ...

Aussies attempt CFA in record numbers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2017
... December 2016 Level I exam was administered in 104 test centers in 72 cities across 40 countries worldwide. The first ever CFA exam was sat in 1963 by 284 candidates, 94% of which passed. The three-tiered exam process was introduced in 1964. There are ...

150,000 candidates cramming for CFA exams

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
Almost 150,000 candidates from 179 countries are gearing up to sit six hours of examinations for their Level I, II and III CFA qualifications on Saturday. The number of exam registrations for this year's December 2013 to June 2014 exam cycle exceeds ...

Nigerians seek CFA certificate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
Nigerian finance executives are increasingly seeking to boost their credentials after the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program recorded a 44 per cent jump in the number of local professionals signing up in a year. Around 1,000 Nigerian finance ...

Fixed income reinvented: Lehman

... Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) professionals join the industry. "There are 148,000 [students] who will take their CFA exam in June and they are the ones who are more aware of this philosophical shift," as opposed to their predecessors, he said. He ...
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