Anyone know the size of the CFA Charterholder certificate and a third party source for getting a frame? I need to find some frames for these designations, preferrably ones that match. The PRM certificate is 8.5"x11" simple enough, while the CAIA Charterholder certificate is 11"x17". It would seem odd to have them all in different style frames and the $160 CAIA wants and $250 CFAI wants for a frame seem excessive. Plus I don’t think they match.
When you get all your certificates just bring them to a frame shop and get it done. Or hang them on the wall with a thumbtack.
I wonder if anyone has ever thumb tacked the CFA Charter. I know a ton of people that still have it in the tube. Sadly, mine is framed beautifully, but in a closet at the moment.
Keeping it in the tube makes it safer from prying eyes; plus I reinforced my tube w/ a steel bar, so everytime someone says: “Oh, you’re a Certified Financial Accountant - is that like my brother who’s a CGA?” I nail them in the face with my CFAI Tube of Destruction ™.
^That sounded like what I did with my book during LIII study period. I carried all the books (CFAI version) in my bag so I can study whenever, whereever I can. When people ask me why am I studying a exam that is 6 month away, I tell them it is the CFA exam, if they go like “oh, is that certified finanical advisor”? I hit them with my books.
Where did you guys got the charter framed? Mom & Pop shops or Joann, Michale kind of place. I live in Atlanta, I got a quote from Joann for $450 (that is with the always-onging discount of 50%) for musume glass. Pretty expensive I think.
you laid out probably $2k for the exam…might as well pay about 25% of that to get the thing framed right proper.
I know, I know, $450 is a relative small compare to the overall exam cost, I am being cheap now. I think I still can get quality framing work at a lower price.
I paid $250 for a "museum quality’ framing. I’m pretty impressed with the job they did. I believe it was Michael’s or Joann.
It must be Michaels’s…Joann told me $450.
I paid 250 at a mom and pop shop which is usually more expensive.
such a rip off. I just came back from china with a couple 20 x 24 oil paintings. I brought just the rolled canvases since its tricky to travel with mounted paintings. Michaels wanted $250 each to stretch and staple them to pine frames. Whawha…What?? I turned around, bought a couple 16 dollar canvas, picked up a staple gun at home depot for 10 bux on the way home and did it myself. I could not bring myself to pay up that kind of money for something I very well knew was not that complicated. Its not even the money- its the principle of it. A while back when I had a bunch of thinks to frame I just bought a canvas cutter and did it myself. It is not that complicated to build a frame if you like this sort of hands on crafty stuff. I know they do all that protective archival quality crap, but seriously, a CFA Charter is not a Picasso sketch, and you can get the same quality materials online.
Mine’s sitting in a tube too. Just like my undergrad, grad, etc… I think I framed my Ph.D., but I’m not sure where it is anymore… 