CFA and CAIA

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I'm a Level 2 CFA Candidate and want to pursue the CAIA designation alongside it. I've read that the CAIA content only takes around 4-6 weeks to cover. Will it be possible for me to sit CAIA Level 1 in March and subsequently sit Level 2 CFA in June? I would then sit CAIA Level 2 in September 2012.
Is this suicide, seeing the content for Level 2 is so large?. BTW I started studying for Level 2 6 weeks ago and I've completed Ethics, Quant, Economics and onto Equity.
Thanks in advance.
 
You can get away with it for Level I of the CAIA, but Level II is much tougher so you wouldn’t want to attempt. I passed the CAIA Level II in March and then Band 8’d the CFA L II. Would have passed easy if otherwise.
 
Yeah well if i pass caia 1 i will be more comfortable doing caia 2 after level 2 cfa. Misscleo how long were your preparations for caia1? Ive briefly looked at caia schweser notes and i see cfa ethics in there, quant overlaps with cfa alot and then the rest is pretty qualitative??
 
I’m just curious, what business are you in or hope to be in and/or what will you gain by having the CAIA?
 
I just passed the September CAIA after roughly 6 weeks of studying… AND that’s with only an hour or two a day vs. CFA level 2’s 3 hrs on weekdays and 5-6 hrs on weekends…
Only thing though… depending how far you are on CFA level 2 studying, I would personally recommend that you take it after CFA level 2… level 2 being so difficult, i would say that you’re better off passing this first, then taking on level 1 while you await your results… and then either take caia level 2 next march, or take it again after you take level 3..
 
AndrewUNH wrote:
I’m just curious, what business are you in or hope to be in and/or what will you gain by having the CAIA?
Almost everyone running pension funds/ endowments/ big IC firms, has both nowadays, so one of those 3 industries
 
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