Reading Order

[nixon101]

Anyone care to share the order they read the the cirriculum?
Is there a benifit to staying in order?
Thanks,

 

[prozario]

Skip ethics defintely .. no reason to read it first, as that’s type of materail you need to read near exam dates anyhow.
Other than that, i don’t see much advantage reading it out of order - as some materails will defintitely be refreenced in subsequent sessons … especially for 1st timer.
If you really get stuck/bored etc with something, i would say you can skip that over. I did that on 2nd try with L3, with behavior finance. I got so bored (being a retaker) .. basically not much math/problems to solve, mostly just reading and figuring out types of biases - so i skipped it.
If you’re retaking exam - obviously you may have differnt strategy depending on your weak points.

 

[wct2010]

I skipped Ethics at first, started in Behavioral and then went in order from there (coming back to Ethics and GIPS towards the end of my studies). I think the curriculum has a good flow if you start at Behavioral and work forward from there. You go from studying the client, to putting together investment policy statements, then onto the asset allocation, the investment products used in the asset allocation, risk management and then actually executing/monitoring the portfolio decisions.
I’m sure plenty of people have done just fine skipping around more, but I do think that staying in order makes sense.

 

[klaudnine]

I skipped to other topics once I got bored with one, but it’s important to track what you have read.

 

[sharpy606]

Start with Ethics and move forward . Ethics is something you read before and will warm u up for the rest .