I am currently finishing off my bachelors degree in Finance whilst working. I have decided to go back to study during covid. I do have 12 years experience in banking roles/credit assessment and more. Am really interested in investment banking and portfolio management. Will also be starting my CFA exams soon. Can anyone provide some background on how easy would it be to get into let say investment banking roles or similar given my experience but the burden of finishing my degree late?

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So I’ll be honest mate (from the perspective of where I work), they prefer new investment banker (those with no investment banking experience) to be young grads due to the pressure and burnout. Your experience doesn’t matter as much as where you got your degree from.

Portfolio management will be an easier route to go down then investment banking typically your IAD and some coding will get you there. CFA is great but more for financial analysts so investment bank (but again depending on age due to burnout and commitments as the investment bank starts early and finishes late can your family take that?) honestly iAd is easier and less work and is cheaper, but you can do portfolio management with CFA only thing is that CFA sits twice a year and has a 40 percent pass rate and iAd sits every day you can do it remote and if you fail today can take it tomorrow but if you fail the CFA you will have to wait six months

Forgot to ask what is IAD ?

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