Senior level jobs in finance may require candidates do have a ChFC designation. The Chartered Financial Consultant Analyst is known as a globally recognized designation within the investment community. It measures competency and integrity of investment professionals. The designation is earned after passing an international exam that contains three levels. Each applicant can take only one level at a time. This professional level exam consists of study preparation time averaging 250 hours. The self-study preparation includes 18 comprehensive reading sections. Subjects covered in the CFA exam include ethics and professional standards, behavioral finance, private wealth management, derivatives risk management strategy, risk management, equity portfolio management, asset allocation, alternative investments, and performance evaluation and monitoring, management of passive and active portfolio management, quantitative methods - among other topics.

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