I am reminded of the expression” “Guns don’t kill people; people kill people.” CFA does not make a person money or get a person a job; a person does. But I see CFA being a building block for knowledge. I received a MSF in my mid-twenties and did financial analysis for several years; yet I internalized many concepts I use nowadays after I went through the L1 and L2 curriculum.
Most people I meet do not even know what CFA is or they confuse it with lots of other concepts (“Is it a certification? License?” Most professionals aren’t going to be impressed you have it either. But prove continuously that you have a unique and fresh take on a problem (i.e. investment idea generation, etc) and people take notice. It boils down to how knowledge translates in practice and how one can make that transition between knowing just enough to be dangerous to someone that is indispensible.
In my opinion, that beats all.
Most people I meet do not even know what CFA is or they confuse it with lots of other concepts (“Is it a certification? License?” Most professionals aren’t going to be impressed you have it either. But prove continuously that you have a unique and fresh take on a problem (i.e. investment idea generation, etc) and people take notice. It boils down to how knowledge translates in practice and how one can make that transition between knowing just enough to be dangerous to someone that is indispensible.
In my opinion, that beats all.