Hello everyone,
i wanted to get a directional feedback from experts in this forum, with regard to the CFA programme.
I hail from India and have an MBA in finance (gold medalist from a tier 2 b-school), a PMP and also ICWA (final group results in 2014).
I also have 12 years experience in market research, market intelligence, competitive intelligence, corporate finance, and management consulting. Most of my experience in these roles have been in top industry analyst firms (like IDC etc) and in a top class software company in their strategy team.
I am interested in the financial world, but cannot claim to have hard core financial related work experience except for the 1 year that I was in corporate finance (FP & A).
Would the CFA help in moving from market research / strategy kinds of roles to financial research, corporate finance, venture capital, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions etc? I am not hell-bent on getting into an I-bank, and am quite comfortable in consulting firms and corporates, preferably in financial decision-making roles in the long term.
And in all this, based on my profile here, and given the economic conditions worldwide, are international opportunities a possibility, with my background?
Let me know what you think about the CFA in light of what is described here. Thanks.
Regards, AR.