What is the Chartered Financial Analyst Qualification?

The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification is the benchmark of professional excellence in the investment industry worldwide. It assesses candidates on a wide range of subjects including: Investment Analysis and Advice Financial Statement Analysis Corporate Finance Asset Valuation Fund Management Portfolio Management The knowledge candidates gain while studying will be invaluable to their future career. The CFA charter has become universally recognized by employers and investors as a mark of excellence and integrity within their profession. To earn the CFA designation, there are three examination levels, which you must pass sequentially.

Developers for Training & Consultancy-DTC in Collaboration with The Institute for Financial Analysts- IFA are organizing a CFA Chartered Financial Analyst Schweser Preparatory Courses, for the first time, in Egypt. Candidates joining our CFA preparatory courses will be offered a complete package of study sessions modular exams and mock exams that will help them in ensuring a successful completion of the CFA three levels, provided a sufficient level of study and preparation effort on the personal front.

CFA curriculum and examinations

The syllabus for each of the three levels is based on the same list of topics, contained in the Candidate Body of Knowledge, produced by the CFA Institute, and is specified by way of a list of learning outcome statements. The learning outcome statements relate to chapters or excerpts from a series of recommended textbooks, professional journal articles and other readings that are set as reading assignments and these reading assignments effectively constitute the study material.

CFA Level I emphasizes financial analysis tools and inputs and includes an introduction to asset valuation and portfolio management techniques. CFA Level II emphasizes asset valuation and includes applications of the financial analysis tools and inputs (including economics, financial statement analysis, and quantitative methods) in asset valuation. CFA Level III emphasizes portfolio management and includes strategies for applying the financial analysis tools, inputs, and asset valuation models in managing equity, fixed income, and derivative investments for individuals and institutions.

CFA Exam Topic Area Weights

Topic Area
Ethical and Professional Standards (total) Corporate Finance Economics Financial Reporting and Analysis Quantitative Methods Alternative Investments Derivatives Equity Investments Fixed Income Portfolio Management and Wealth Planning 8 10 20 12 3 5 10 12 5

Level I
15

Level II
10 5-15 5-10 15-25 5-10 5-15 5-15 20-30 5-15 5-15 0 0 0 0

Level III
10

5-15 5-15 5-15 10-20 45-55

Total

100

100

100

Join CFA preparatory course with Developers for Training & Consultancy and Enjoy.

1. Full and rigorous live study classes taught by our top-notch faculty that would collectively cover all the 18 sessions per each CFA level. 2. Modular Exams 3. A complete package of study material including outlines of the readings and solutions 4. Four days intensive review (Solving Practice Problems) one month before the exam. 5. Two full mock exams (full day each to simulate the big day).

CFA cost USD2,500 per level

About The Institute for Financial Analysts IFA

IFA, Lebanon is a firm specialized in training courses for professional designations, and seminars for business decision makers. IFA offers preparatory courses for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Financial Risk Manager (FRM), and Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) in Lebanon, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Jordon and now in Egypt, in association with Developers for Training and Consultancy.

The Institute for Financial Analysts is Managed by Dr. Assem Safieldine

Dr. Safieldine is the managing director of the Institute for Financial Analysts and an associate Dean of Business School at the American University in Beirut. Dr. Safieldine is the founding president of the Lebanese CFA Society and was just appointed a Regional Director of Global Association of Risk Professionals-GARP, the world renowned risk association. Dr. Safieldine holds a Ph.D. in finance from Boston College, and has held faculty appointment at Michigan State University and visiting faculty appointment at Harvard University. His research has been published in leading finance journals such as the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. His work has been also profiled in the Business Week and Harvard Business Review, CFA Digest and the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. Safieldine has been teaching CVA, FRM and CFA courses for the past six years.