John10

If I weren’t tired of studying for exams, I’d do the CMT, because I think that technical analysis likely does add value.  I probably wouldn’t put CMT on my business card, though; I just want the walk-through of the knowledge.

meghanjackson

I understand why you’d want to do the CFA after the CMT, but why would you do the CMT after the CFA?
Actually–why would you want to do the CMT at all?  Any chartists out there who care to offer an opinion?

Dapper425

How about CMT (Chartered Market Technician) after completing the CFA?  I see most CMT’s are also CFA charterholders but not the other way around..

giants2010

Agreeable.
I will state that I am hipocrite in this taking on too much syndrome.  But I have always done this,  through university and in my firm(I get a rush out of it sadly).
My aim for this isn’t to get into that glorious firm since I am happy I even have a job in this sadistic job market.   More so on the base of personal learning to prepare me for advanced courses(I got burned by getting too cocky by taking a graduate course and getting a gratifying horrific grade).   I’d rather pay a small price to see if I know the material versus a course costing me ten or twenty times that much to only fail.

therecruit

As I was perusing the website during a study break, I found a quote from “Unit Root”, who claims to be both a CFP and a CFA.
“I’d definitely recommend CFP if you want to work in [private wealth management].”
I believe that I will probably pursue either this or the CVA (Certified Valuation Analyst) one of these days.  But I won’t be doing either until I start either doing financial planning for clients, or doing business valuations for clients.

Analti_Calte

CFP is very useful to gain personnal knowledge. Everything I learned during the process helps me a lot when I have to deal with personnal financial decisions and dealing with bank’s salespeople.

Iginla2010

Well, having a CFA charter does let you challenge out of parts of the CFP program, so you are part of the way there as a charterholder. I believe that CFP has more stuff about tax ramifications, insurance, estate planning, and things like that. If you are going to be a retail advisor, it does contain genuinely useful information, and some of it is not covered in the CFA, but presumably someone with a CFA should not have much trouble getting a CFP as long as they set their mind to it.

tikfed

yeah, dawg, lets collect designations!

mdfb79

^
Given your credentials, I would be too.

Unforseen

True, good point. I guess I am just bitter about having to get the CFP after taking years off my life to obtain the CFA charter.