Differences between 2013 and 2012 CFA Level II Curriculums

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Arif Irfanullah

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I’ve compared the 2012 and 2013 CFA Level II readings and here is a summary of the differences:
Total number of readings down from 64 or 56. Good news!
Econ has changed completely. This is consistent with the Level I Econ changes between 2011 and 2012.
Equity: Three readings have been dropped: Note on Asset Valuation, Industry Analysis and Valuation in Emerging Markets. (The last one was a nightmare. I’m glad CFAI has realized that too!)
Alternative Investments: The two readings on real estate have been dropped and replaced with two new readings on real estate.
Fixed Income: Reading on credit analysis has been updated.
Derivatives: Reading on credit derivatives has been updated.
Portfolio Management: ‘Note on Harry Markowitz…’ and International Asset Pricing have been dropped.
Ethics, Quant, FRA and CF are unchanged.
I have a file which shows all the readings and highlights the differences. I don’t think I can upload the file here. If you want it just email your request to me at [email protected]
 
I always hear cfa has revamped econ completely….but how?? is it more mathematical? is it the same theories explained differently? or what?
 
Many thanks for the summary Arif. They all seem like sensible changes by the Institute.
I never really got to grips with Valuation in Emerging Markets last time round so I’m glad it has dropped out.
I won’t miss the markowitz or IAP either.
The credit derivatives reading seemed a bit light last time so I’ll be keen to see the rewrite.
For Economics, I think a lot of the exchange rate material dropped down to level 1 last year so maybe it has been replaced with something else for L2? If so I’d be gutted as cross rates, triangular arb etc are pretty easy marks.
 
Oh gr8! in fact I had suggested that this section of Emerging Markets be dropped in the last survey of CFAI.
 
so can someone confirm that the Equity Analysis section is the “same” minus the 2 readings? are the LOS worded the same?
 
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