Is FRM or CFA a better certification?

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CFA is a clearly more valuable credential. It's also much more work and money

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If you are interested in risk management or risk and regulatory advisory, FRM would be preferable

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Depends on why you want to do

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Get both and both are useless. I have both btw.

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Yep. FRM is more relevant. But FRM material is way less organized compared to CFA. And ppl know simply everyone passes FRM easily

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Get both ✌️

Can CFA get someone into banking?

^lol... I don't understand why CFA is so popular. There are very few jobs requiring CFA. Big four are doing a lot of Risk stuff so I thought FRM might be more useful.

Pwc2, I have both too and agree on use but no regrets. I thoroughly enjoyed the journey

@EY2 well, I have to admit that it feels damn good to have those three-characters behind my name

Pwc2, you mean 6.

Lol, true, 6

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