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CFA Charter Application

From a Level III pass to a charter you can use: qualifying experience logged, references and the membership application, a local society, and the yearly conduct statement, dues and ethics routines.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for CFA Charter Application, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

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🎓 Finance & Business Certifications

CFA Charter Application

Getting from passing Level III to using the charter: qualifying work experience, references, CFA Institute membership, a local society and the annual professional conduct statement.

  1. Charter eligibility check after the Level III result
  2. Qualifying work experience audit
  3. Work experience hours log
  4. CFA Institute profile and records clean-up
  5. Choosing your professional references
  6. Experience descriptions for the application
  7. Submitting the charter membership application
  8. Choosing a local CFA society
  9. Charter costs and who pays for them
  10. Telling your employer's compliance team
  11. Annual Professional Conduct Statement
  12. Membership and society dues renewal
  13. Continuing education hours record
  14. Annual continuing education plan
  15. Monthly Standards of Practice case
  16. Quarterly designation use audit
  17. Personal trading and conflicts record
  18. Society events rhythm
  19. Charterholder records folder
  20. Code and Standards from candidate to practitioner
  21. Using the CFA marks correctly
  22. How the Professional Conduct Program works
  23. Grey areas in your own role, written as cases
  24. Social media posts and the Standards
  25. Explaining the charter in plain words
  26. CFA Institute research reading queue
  27. Membership options while experience is short
  28. Regulatory exemptions the charter may earn
  29. CV, title and profiles updated after award
  30. Reinstating a lapsed membership
  31. Answering a disclosure question on the conduct statement
  32. Responding to an application held for review
  33. Charter award notification and first week
  34. Charter award ceremony
  35. Displaying the charter certificate
  36. Announcing the charter to your network
  37. First society event as a charterholder
  38. Experience gained outside investment management
  39. Charter from a small Caribbean market
  40. Self-employed and consulting experience
  41. Part-time work and career breaks in the experience period
  42. Applying years after passing Level III
  43. Moving countries as a charterholder
  44. Retired membership in later career
  45. Acting as a professional reference for a colleague
  46. Mentoring candidates through the charter process
  47. Volunteering with CFA Institute programmes
  48. Serving on a local society board
  49. Speaking and writing as a charterholder
  50. Leading an ethics session for your team

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Charter eligibility check after the Level III result

Passing Level III does not award the charter on its own: CFA Institute also looks at qualifying work experience, professional references and a membership application that includes agreeing to the Code and Standards. Reading the current requirements in the week your result arrives tells you whether you can apply now or have a gap to close, and how big that gap is.

First tasks

  • Download and save your Level III result letter from your CFA Institute account
  • Read the current charter and membership requirements on the CFA Institute website
  • Note the experience, reference and membership rules on one page
  • Mark each requirement as met, nearly met or not yet met
  • Pick a target month to submit the membership application

Qualifying work experience audit

Most delays in the charter process come from experience that does not clearly fit CFA Institute's description of work in, or directly supporting, the investment decision-making process. Going through every role you have held, with dates and an honest estimate of qualifying hours, shows whether you already have enough and which roles will need careful wording.

First tasks

  • List every role you have held with dates, employer and title
  • Read CFA Institute's examples of qualifying and non-qualifying experience
  • Estimate the qualifying share of hours in each role
  • Compare your total with the current requirement and record the gap
  • Decide whether to apply now or set a date to apply later

Work experience hours log

If you are still building up qualifying experience, a monthly log is far easier to defend than a reconstruction from memory two years later. Recording hours, the investment work done and who supervised it gives you the raw material for the application and for the people who will act as your references.

First tasks

  • Create an experience log from the metrics log template
  • Fill in past months from calendars, timesheets and appraisals
  • Add a running total and the target from the current requirement
  • Record the month's qualifying hours and the work behind them @recurring(monthly:28)

Make it yours.

Install CFA Charter Application, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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