As a follow up to the post one year ago, Cleared Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Level 2 and Looking Forward to Final Level, I managed to clear CFA Level 3 as well thus completing the CFA! Again I was pretty busy preparing for the exams so you may have noticed that I didn’t post as much the last few months.

As stated in my previous post, CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) is the ultimate credential for a finance professional. It is extremely tough to get and it covers a very wide range of topics within finance. I have put in many hours for both Level 2 and Level 3 and I am glad they have paid off.

Level 3 is different from level 2 in the sense that Level 2 is more focused on individual securities analysis while level 3 is more focused on macro economics and overall portfolio management. ...