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The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program is a postgraduate professional certification offered internationally by the US-based CFA Institute (formerly the Association for Investment Management and Research, or AIMR) to investment and financial professionals.
The Series 7 is a three-hour, forty-five-minute exam. [1] It is held in one four-hour session. There are 125 questions on the test. Candidates have to score at least 72% to pass. The SIE Exam and the Series 7 Exam are co-requisite exams. [9] Average study time is between 80 and 150 hours depending on current financial knowledge. [10]
[8] In 1962, the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and code of conduct were established. In 1963, the profession was formalized when 284 candidates sat for the first CFA exam and 268 CFA charters were awarded. [9] [10] The following year, all 3 levels of the exam were administered to more than 1,700 candidates. [8]
The CFA Institute Research Challenge is an annual global competition in equity research hosted by the CFA Institute started in 2007. The competition provides university students with hands-on training and mentoring in financial analysis.
ICFAI has focussed all its energies away from developing its CFA charter like giving it statutory recognition increasing its status as a high status profession like that of CA from ICAI, which was announced by the governing member N. J. Yasaswy who vowed to take up the CFA Charter a notch above the legendary CA exam considered to be the ...
The results of the 2021 Practice Analysis Study would prompt CFP Board to make changes to the exam beginning in March 2022. [19] The updated exam would see Education Planning consolidated in the curriculum and the addition of the Psychology of Financial Planning to the Principal Knowledge Topics. [19]
Candidates for the CIPM qualification must adhere to the same body of professional ethics and professional conduct [1] that has been devised for Chartered Financial Analysts by the CFA Institute. To obtain the Certificate, one must sequentially pass two examinations (known respectively as Principles and Expert ).
The exams are timed and last between three and four hours. Some tests provide instant feedback as to whether or not a candidate has passed that particular exam (see table below). All test scores (on a 0-10 scale with 6 or higher passing) are posted six to eight weeks after the exam window ends.