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red sky · 07-12-2010, 02:08 PM

You can learn everything you need to from studying the CFA material. Obviously having a bit of a background and understanding of finance material helps but Level I isn't too difficult if you put your time into it. There is a course that Cont Ed offers that is once a week for a few hours, which might help you to stay on track. It isn't that the material is difficult, more so the breadth of material that you have to know. You easiliy need to put in the recommended 250 hours and most likely more.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Edit: I realized I didn't answer your question because I don't know the courses at UofC so I won't be much help. But there is a bit of everything on the exam including, statistics, economics, portfolio mgmt, fixed income, derivatives, equities (valuation), financial statement anaylsis... you get the idea

07-12-2010, 02:08 PM	#2
red sky #1 Goaltender Join Date: Apr 2006 Exp:	You can learn everything you need to from studying the CFA material. Obviously having a bit of a background and understanding of finance material helps but Level I isn't too difficult if you put your time into it. There is a course that Cont Ed offers that is once a week for a few hours, which might help you to stay on track. It isn't that the material is difficult, more so the breadth of material that you have to know. You easiliy need to put in the recommended 250 hours and most likely more. Let me know if you have any other questions. Edit: I realized I didn't answer your question because I don't know the courses at UofC so I won't be much help. But there is a bit of everything on the exam including, statistics, economics, portfolio mgmt, fixed income, derivatives, equities (valuation), financial statement anaylsis... you get the idea Last edited by red sky; 07-12-2010 at 02:10 PM.