The CFA Course Info:
The CFA designation is the “gold-standard” qualification for persons within the global Corporate Finance industry and is recognized by employers as a badge of distinction by which one measures serious investment management professionals.
The programme is enjoying dramatic growth worldwide, which the CFA Institute attributes to the practical relevance of the syllabus and high standards of professionalism that it demands. Having the CFA designation after your name underlines your mastery of high-level investment market principles, technical competence, and integrity.
Benefits of doing the CFA over a MBA Finance degree include:
- Portable reputation – the charter remains a mark of quality, whether you change company or migrate. There are no further exams that need to be done.
- Cost Competitiveness – The CFA programme can cost one tenth of an MBA and allows you to carry on working whilst studying. MBA programmes are tied to the quality of the offering institution.
- Credible – The CFA is praised and supported by the clients, employers and regulators; the investment community at large.
- More and more corporate clients view participation in the CFA® program as a prerequisite for job progression.
The exam (which consist primarily of multiple choice questions), has three levels, each of which must be passed before progressing to the next.
- The Level I exam is sat in both June and December of each year.
- The Level II and III exams are only available in June of each year.
Call 977-3570 or click here to request the exam syllabus details.
Eligible Candidates: Bsc or MSc graduates in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Actuarial Science, Management Studies, Statistics and ACCA holders.
We are the Caribbean distributor for the World’s most trusted CFA study providers, Kaplan-Schweser.
The CSC Course Info:
The Canadian Securities Course is Canada’s best known, internationally recognized certificate course for persons seeking to work in the financial services sector.
Completion of the Canadian Securities Course™ (CSC™) is one of the first required steps in pursuing a career that involves trading securities and providing investment advice to clients in Canada, or the Caribbean. This 2-paper exam is practical and is open to all applicants as the course material starts with the assumption that the candidate is not exposed to financial markets.
As the pass mark is 60% for each paper, this is not an exam that you can take lightly as all questions are multiple choice.
Our supplemental course allows you to directly interact with your tutor and peers in solidifying all the components of the extensive financial market based syllabus that allows you to pass the CSC within 9 months. Learn about hedge funds, listing of equity and debt securities, types of mutual funds etc.
Eligible Candidates: The CSC is open to all candidates (degree holder or not) even if you do not work in the financial services sector as tuition starts from scratch.