CFA Podcast

I have listened to a few. Some of them are better than others, I think it also depends on who does the interview. Nothing is ground-breaking, iTune automatically downloads the files for me and when I am travelling and bored listening to the same old stuff, I sometimes listen to one of these files. It also gives you an easy 0.5 credit for CE…
 
Continuing Education.
A requirement for professionally licenced people like CPAs to keep up to date with current financial/business developments etc.
 
Do CFA charterholders need CEs? I keep seeing events at NYSSA talking about CE and CPE credits. I figure they have something to do with all that, but never paid much attention
How do they play into the CFA rules?
 
CFAI would like each of us to “earn” at least 20 credits a year, including 2.5 credits for ethics. You do not have to; but I like the idea of encouraging people to keep on learning. If you cannot afford to attend one of the expensive conferences that give you on average 6 credits per day (like me), but still want to get the credits, it is a good idea to read a few articles (reading an article in FAJ usually gets you 1 credit) and to listen to the webcasts/podcasts. If you think about it, one article and one podcast a month nearly gets you to the required credits. Not too difficult as you can choose your topics, and you can receive a certificate each year, and even be recognized when you reach the 5, 10 and 20 year milestones :)
 
Especially if it’s not mandatory, it’s actually nice to have a “target” like 20 credits per year to measure oneself against.
 
I guess I was in the dark about logging CE credits for CFAI. I read enough FAJ articles to probably hit the number anyway.
 
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