Which course is better among CFP and CFA?

Dear reyansh, Hi, One, is the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) or the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation more difficult to obtain? First, be aware that the CFA and CFP designations usually attract different students. The CFA tends towards those interested in financially analytical careers. For example, investment analyst, portfolio management, and corporate treasury functions desire CFAs. The CFP designation is geared towards people wanting to provide financial planning advice to individual clients. Most people with a CFP title will do become Financial Planner or Independent Financial Advisor. Therefore, you can work for a bank, an investment firm or an insurance company. While you can get a job in other type of companies, the above mentioned will be the bigger employer for CFP. Most jobs requiring a CFA title will obviously include an analytical part where you have to work with spread sheet, graphs and other data. The most common jobs are trader or financial analyst (concentrating on a specific investment category or industry) Hope it will help you, feel free ask more. Give thumbs up or mark this answer as best if you found it helpful.

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Better do CFA. It has better career prospectus.

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