The value of a CFA

[valuebuddies]

My dream job is to be a portfolio/fund manager, ever thought about getting CFA years ago as it is definitely a passport to get into the right track towards my dream. I bought the text books but never really enrol for the membership and exam thus not putting effort in studying them, it is indeed quite costly and I don't have the confidence to challenge it. I am getting older now, started my family and planning for parenthood, now don't even thought about my dream job again. If I were 8 years younger, I could had made different decision.

CFA to me is more like a identity more than knowledge. One who is a successful investor might not even pass CFA level 1, one who pass all CFA levels doesn't mean that he/she will do great in asset management.

Anyway I am quite happy with what I have now, though I am merely a tiny non-paid fund manager managing 5-digits portfolio of my wife and myself, but at least I enjoy doing what I am doing everyday