genuinecfa

And I also have a hot classy babe wife who demands lots of attention too.

NakedPuts2011

Are we talking difficulty or prestige here? Still think the CFA designation pisses on having any kind of masters degrees (in terms of prestige). When I meet people with master’s degree (I have one myself btw), I’m like, yeah whatever, you stayed in school for another year or two like half the people in this office did and took some classes that were a bit more challenging than undergrad, and maybe spent a summer writing some thesis that was nothing ground breaking. I meet someone who has done CFA while working full time and has a family maybe, I think wow, really impressive. It’s not so much that I’m impressed with what they know, it’s the fact that they’ve showed so much commitment. I’m studying for level I and work full time and have kids, this is more challenging than completing any degree I’ve ever done. And I’m only on level 1 !!!
Maybe I just did shit degrees.
Ph. D., different story, I’m still more impressed with that than CFA.

Houjichasan

CFA material wise was 3rd year undergrad at best…the hard thing about CFA is that you get 1 shot and if you fail, you get wacked and no girls will ever date you…
i took some phd courses in econ when i was in grad school…..they were very difficult (but useless).
PHDs require a ton more work in addition to way more brain power……however, not many ppl fail their PHDs, they just take forever to do it

hassan

There is little in the world that compares with writing a Ph.D. thesis, be it quantitative or not. And the CFA doesn’t even come close.
CFA might be better compared with a Master’s degree. I’d say the amount of work compares to one of those accelerated full-time 1-year professional masters’ degrees, except that it’s actually spread out over three years.

busterbluth

Thanks for letting me know I have a crummy undergrad. I suspect it long ago as I encountered one finance grad who does not know how to do time value of money

kingstongal

This is a joke right?
If you’re talking about any of the quantitative fields (statistics, math, engineering, psychics.. etc) the CFA is nothing in comparison. Nothing in the CFA program is difficult, it’s just a lot thrown at you at once over dozens of topics.
If the CFA was 2X harder than your undergrad, I’m sorry, you must have had a crummy undergrad