Category: Level I

  • You got mail: CFA Level I results….

    Good afternoon everyone, After yesterday night’s post on a somewhat soft topic, let’s get back to business with the CFA exam results I received today. Let’s kill the suspense straightaway! I am delighted to be able to say that I passed my Level I exam. That’s great news and it’s a huge relief as I…

  • CFA Level I: that was it.

    Hi everybody, I finally took the Level I exam of the CFA curriculum yesterday. I take the opportunity to express my feelings about how my studies went and what my feelings were about the actual exam. As a matter of fact, I cannot disclose any of the specific questions I (and the other candidates) encountered…

  • CFA Level I: DuPont Analysis

    Hello again, Back to reality after the events of last week in the Premier League and last night in the Champions League with some … accounting, in a sense. The CFA Level I curriculum has a lot of question about ratios and a lot of questions ask how the return on equity ROE is affected…

  • CFA Level I: Hypothesis Testing

    Good evening, As I keep practicing towards the Level I exam, I want to finish my review of the  Quantitative Finance material. This post will hence be the follow up of my previous post. I will here discuss how you test a hypothesis on some statistical measure. General Concept The main concept is as follows,…

  • CFA Level I: Buying stocks on margin.

    Hi everybody, Today I’ll try to write several posts on the different things I looked at during my time in Tel Aviv, which will come to an end very early tomorrow morning. I will also setup soon a page where I will display my progress in terms of score percentage in my practice sessions as…