Some of you will know that I recently re-submitted my PhD thesis, following some corrections that were suggested as part of the Viva. Well, I recently heard back that my corrections have been accepted, and I have passed. Finally. Almost 5 years after I started the thing, it's over, and I can graduate. But not yet. Whilst we had tried to look for flights to the UK for July (after the wedding, I might add), they were just too much money, and the time-frame just too tight to get a thesis bound and submitted in order to graduate. So, we have postponed my graduation until December this year, when hopefully we can return and graduate in the snow.
Time, then, to open another chapter (or Textbook) as it were. I have signed up to sit for the Chartered Financial Analyst exam this December. Why the CFA? Good question. There has been a bit of a debate on a frequently visited careers page about the relative benefits of a CFA as compared to an MBA.
Much of this debate boils down to the same arguments we once trotted out in the playground, talking about football teams. "I support Tottenham, ergo they are the best". "No, I support Liverpool, ergo they are the best" (although I may not have used ergo when I was 5 years old). And so on. Replace the teams with CFA and MBA, and “support” with “have completed”, and you get the idea. My own rationale? For a career in fund management (and that’s what we are all after, after all) a CFA is probably the best bet. More focused than an MBA on financial markets (and a hell of a lot cheaper), the CFA is demanding but rewarding. Hopefully. I’ll use his blog to comment on my preparations for the Level I CFA exam in December.
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