许多学员在申请CFA之前会有很多关于工作经验方面的问题，下面小编就将大家所反映的问题整理，一一为大家解答。
申请成为CFA持证人需要多少年的工作经验?
在通过CFA三级考试后，需要4年(48个月)被认可的专业工作经验，不论是参加CFA考试前、考试中、考试后积累的工作经验，都是被认可的。
被认可的工作经验有哪些?
认可的工作经验包括：直接参与投资决策过程或者为投资决策过程提供支持等相关工作。
参见以下职位列表和相关工作经验的描述：
职位列表举例
职位本身的名称不能直接决定是否被CFA协会认可，主要是日常工作中涉及到的职务内容必须50%以上和投资决策相关的才是被认可。如果所从事的工作在以下举例的职位以外，但工作中涉及的职务内容和投资决策相关，亦可提供详细的工作经验给CFA协会，也是被认可的。
工作职位列表：
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Accountant |
Investment strategist |
工作经验描述
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Job Title |
Work Experience Description |
Descriptive Enough? |
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Portfolio Manager |
Rebalance high-net-worth clients' portfolios by trading short-term assets and pooled funds. Analyze and evaluate client performance reports. |
Yes |
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Rebalance portfolios; perform reporting. |
No(too brief) |
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Securities Underwriter |
Prepare financial models based on reviewed information; participate in the valuation and decision-making process; analyze fundamental and value acquisition targets for clients. |
Yes |
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My company provides risk analysis and financial planning for customers. |
No(does not describe job duties |
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Auditor |
I perform financial statement audits of investment companies and in the process test the custody and pricing of the portfolios. Used Bloomberg and learned the accounting of several security types, including equities, bonds, options, and futures. |
Yes |
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Review the internal control processes to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and recommend process improvements. Perform non-SOX-related financial and operational audits on businesses to identify control and process weaknesses and recommend process improvements. |
No(does not add value to the investment decision-making process) |
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Quantitative Investment Analyst |
As a financial engineer in an asset management company, I am responsible for evaluating product development and using quantitative methods and tools to recommend asset allocations, construct portfolios, and perform derivative analysis. |
Yes |
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My work is related to product design and quantitative analysis. |
No(too brief) |
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Consultant |
I am a management consultant to the financial services industry, working with risk management functions, assisting clients in developing and refining statistically based credit risk models covering a diverse range of portfolios. |
Yes |
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Management consulting for the financial services industry. |
No(too brief) |
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Actuary |
I perform projections, cash flow analysis, and durational analysis of individual health insurance policies. These activities have a direct bearing on the investments chosen to back the reserves for these blocks of business. |
Yes |
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Support annual actuarial valuation process. Benefit calculations. |
No(does not add value) |
