Afiliate Membership

I just found out the CFA institute is granting me an afiliate membership. As far as i can tell: cost = U$315 (including affiliation with a local society) Benefits = U$0 I am going to keep my local society afiliation, but wonder if anyone here has a good reason to convince me not to ask the CFA to put my afiliate membership on hold for a year so i can save U$200 or so…

We won’t show you the secret handshake until you write that check.