Author Archives: TheFinanceNerd

World Quant University (WQU)’s Financial Engineering Programme, my thoughts about the Course after 1 year.

Posted on October 15, 2021 by TheFinanceNerd

A year ago I started studying the MSc in Financial Engineering offered by WQU and I wrote about the course here. As I am writing this post, I have now completed around 60% of the modules so I thought that … Continue reading →

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Taking the Tableau Desktop Specialist Exam

Posted on October 4, 2021 by TheFinanceNerd

Over the years, Tableau has become a very popular BI tool for companies. The software allows users to easily connect to a number of data sources and create a wide range of visualisations; it is very intuitive to use but … Continue reading →

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World Quant University (WQU)’s Applied Data Science Module

Posted on September 3, 2021 by TheFinanceNerd

So, you are interested in Data Science and you have come across this free course offered by WQU and you are evaluating whether this course might be worth your time. In this post I will share my experience from having … Continue reading →

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Re: Bloomberg Opinion Piece: “Wall Street’s CFA Program Is a Colossal Waste of Time”

Posted on August 29, 2021 by TheFinanceNerd

On 17th August 2021, Bloomberg published an opinion piece titled “Wall Street’s CFA Program Is a Colossal Waste of Time ” and this post is a response to that article. The CFA Charter has very often been regarded as the … Continue reading →

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May 2021 CFA Level I Results at Historical Low, only 25% Pass

Posted on August 28, 2021 by TheFinanceNerd

The May 2021 numbers for the level I exams have recently been made public, a result that saw only a quarter of test takers get a pass. This is an extremely low pass rate and to put this number into … Continue reading →

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OK, I got the CFA charter, what now?

Posted on July 25, 2021 by TheFinanceNerd

As someone who got the CFA charter six years ago, I recall that when I was studying the curriculum, I came across a lot of advice on forums where discussions were centred around passing the exams but after passing my … Continue reading →

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Level 2 of the CMA (Certified Member Analyst) Exam

Posted on July 11, 2021 by TheFinanceNerd

On 6th June 2021, I sat level 2 of the CMA exam. For those of you who are not familiar with this exam, CMA which stands for Certified Member Analyst is a financial analyst exam administered by the Securities Analysts … Continue reading →

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Exam Preparation Tips

Posted on July 4, 2021 by TheFinanceNerd

Dear Reader, if you are reading these words, chances are that you have an important exam coming up and that you are looking for some helpful content online. Or maybe you are just looking for a good excuse to put … Continue reading →

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What I blog about when blogging about blogging

Posted on June 19, 2021 by TheFinanceNerd

Last month was TheFinanceNerd’s three year anniversary. The blog originally started as a way for me to share my thoughts and experiences about financial qualifications in the hope of providing useful information to people thinking of levelling up their skills. … Continue reading →

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I tried Time-Boxing for 8 months, here’s what happened

Posted on March 1, 2021 by TheFinanceNerd

Time-boxing has been one of those buzzwords that I have been hearing very often lately so I was very keen on giving it a go. For those of you who are not familiar with it, this is a technique for … Continue reading →

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