ICFL - ICICIdirect Centre For Financial Learning Jhandewalan Extension Delhi Answered Questions

For CFP course:
(a) Regular module wise pathway
(b) Challenge status pathway
Eligibility:
(a) You can be an undergraduate or above. With this qualification, you can pursue the course, give the exams. But, to get the final certification, you should have completed your graduation & should have 3 years of experience in the finance industry.
(b) To do CFP through challenge status pathway, one should possess any post-graduation (as per FPSB India specifications) & also possess a minimum of 3 years experience in the finance industry.

Let's look at the few fields to see what kind of jobs you can find to satisfy the requirements.
Front office: Actual Trading or Trading Desk support, where you help the traders make their decisions.
Middle office: Operations in big investment banks, they deal will processing of the trades after it's done, they enrich the trade and record it in Accounting Systems.
Back office: All kind of Reporting, Analytics, Risk calculations, Regulatory etc.
Research: Fundamental, Technical Research, Top to Bottom (at Country / Macro level, narrowing down to Company level) or Bottom to Top (Compare few companies and see why they are earning more than peers or if the peer group is doing better than the industry as a whole), Industry life-cycle phase or Product life-cycle phase etc. These groups do all the calculations that enable the Front-office to make the decisions.
Tech: Coding applications that enable any or all of the above
Supervising: Directly managing / supervising the team that's doing any of the above.
Teaching: If you are teaching CFA candidates
All you need to prove is that either you made portfolio management decisions or your work helped somebody else make those. Also this doesn't need to be continuous 48 months, it can be different positions with different companies over your entire career. You can also include the internship / positions that you have had while preparing for the exams.

Hi Jagriti!
The CFA Program curriculum covers concepts and skills you will use at all stages of your career, bridging academic theory, current industry practice, and ethical and professional standards to provide a strong foundation of advanced investment analysis and real-world portfolio management skills. Chartered Financial Analyst- CFA Level 1 is a 6 month, part time course. In order to be eligible for this course, you must have completed graduation or equivalent from recognized college. You should also have a work experience of minimum 48 months to fulfill the eligibility criteria. Interested candidates can register online on the website: learning.icicidirect.com or visit the nearest centres.