For people working in Canada. I might settle down in Canada within 2-3 years and heard about the CSI courses. I can even take them from overseas (with extra charges). Compared to CFA, where do these qualifications stand? do they worth the time/money/effort put in them? If I hold the CFA charter by then, do they add any value to my resume? I’m talking here about introductory courses like: CSC. Thanks in advance. Saif
The CSC is very very simple, and you need the CSC and CPH (ethics) to be registered, also through CSI you can get the CIM (4 courses and 6 exams, the last two are 3 hours each), nothing very difficult at all really, i know some people that struggled through the written part, but really you shouldn’t at all, the CIM designation may carry a very small amount of weight as it allows you to enter portfolio management with the right experience, three years i think it is (will get you associate port. manager, i dont have this yet, i just have the courses done, short on the experience) they also offer licensing courses for futures and options there as well, I have taken most of the courses through them as work forced me to get the CIM and most of the derivative courses, so i just finished off the DMS designation anyway so if you have any more questions let me know as for time/money/effort my work pays for all them so its tough for me to say really, if you don’t really need to take them and you have to foot the bill, i might just take the very simple CSC to start, the effort for the CSC is minimal, i did it right after school and didn’t touch the books really, just did a quick skim and that was enough, but it depends on your background, we have people in our office with no previous knowledge of securities and low education that we able to pass, not easily for them but pass These courses are much much lower on the totem pole than CFA, but are very necessary as a start to lots of jobs here, hope this helps