buyicide Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > mpnoonan Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > MS in finance will just overlap what you did > for > > the CFA. > > > Not really. I did both. Yeah, some stuff will > overlap. But the MSF will go light years beyond > the CFA in some areas. I did a MS in finance as well. It is overlap but more in depth.
buyicide Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > mpnoonan Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > MS in finance will just overlap what you did > for > > the CFA. > > > Not really. I did both. Yeah, some stuff will > overlap. But the MSF will go light years beyond > the CFA in some areas. I did a MS in finance as well. It is overlap but more in depth.
buyicide Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > mpnoonan Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > MS in finance will just overlap what you did > for > > the CFA. > > > Not really. I did both. Yeah, some stuff will > overlap. But the MSF will go light years beyond > the CFA in some areas. I did a MS in finance as well. It is overlap but more in depth.
Apparently my post was done 4 times. This site if VERY slow today.
I guess we are doing the same but in opposite sequence… I am done with MS finance and doing MBA from top 15 school and CFA together while working full time. Well as others have said there is an overlap between CFA and MSF.The depth depends on what is the nature of MSF. There are lot of programs which are non quantitative type.They are more like prep course for CFA. With you already close to getting your CFA charter I would suggest to focus on only programs that are Quantitative. I mean they should focus strictly on mathematics behind most of the CFA theories.Derivatives in perticular.But in my opinion unless you are extremely interested (and of course extremely good at PDEs, Calculus, Fourier Equations) you will not enjoy the stuff.Also it will be a really heavy workload.IMO these programs are for people who are born mathematicians. Do you want to do that for most of your career?Not sure how broad a market is for those profiles.(I guess HF will be the main area?) If networking is your only goal them its different thing.But for that you want to go to a highly ranked program. Hope this helps.
I think a quant heavy MSF from a place like Berkeley, Chicago, or NYU would effectively qualify as a career change. That would put you on track for a quant research role at a BGI or a risk mgmt role at a hedge fund. Pretty different from fundamental research for a L/S hf or mutual fund. I think a non-quite-as-quant-heavy MSF from a place like Illinois would be somewhat of an overlap with the CFA and MBA. I would look into the job placement stats at these types of schools.
budfox, MiF at LBS is one of my top alternative to MBA. However, one of my concern about the program is that they put too much emphasis on the CFA CBOK. If I’m not mistaken, a while back they even advertise that their program incorporate the CBOK into the curriculum so there should be a lot of overlap. But of course, I didn’t go there. Probably someone on this board has and can give you the hands-on view on how much the overlap is and how deep is their finance curriculum. And don’t forget, LBS brand is very strong in the City so if you want to work in London/UK, LBS is a safe bet (their reputation abroad is somewhat mixed - depends on which part of the world you are I guess).