Climb to the charter,
one level at a time.
A playable run at the CFA® Level I curriculum. Start at Base Camp with ethics, the quant toolkit and economics, scale the financial statements, traverse the asset classes, and reach the Summit — portfolio management and the charter.
Every climb starts here. Learn the Code and Standards that govern the profession, the quantitative toolkit — time value, returns and statistics — and the economics that move whole markets.
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Level 1 The Code of Ethics ★★★ ◆
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🔒Level 2 The Seven Standards ★★★ ◆◆ Needs: L01
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🔒Level 3 GIPS & Applying the Code ★★★ ◆◆ Needs: L02
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🔒Level 4 Time Value of Money ★★★ ◆ Needs: L01
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🔒Level 5 Rates, Returns & Money-Weighting ★★★ ◆◆ Needs: L04
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🔒Level 6 Statistics & Probability ★★★ ◆◆◆ Needs: L04
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🔒Level 7 Microeconomics: Firms & Markets ★★★ ◆◆ Needs: L01
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🔒Level 8 Macro, Cycles & Currencies ★★★ ◆◆◆ Needs: L07
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🔒 👑Level 9 · EXAM Base Camp Exam ★★★ ◆◆◆ Needs: L03, L06, L08
A sheer face of numbers. Learn to read the three financial statements, turn them into ratios, and understand how companies are governed, funded and valued from the inside.
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🔒Level 10 Statements & the Reporting System ★★★ ◆◆ Needs: L05
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🔒Level 11 The Income Statement ★★★ ◆◆◆ Needs: L10
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🔒Level 12 Balance Sheet & Cash Flows ★★★ ◆◆◆ Needs: L11
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🔒Level 13 Ratios & Financial Analysis ★★★ ◆◆◆ Needs: L12
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🔒Level 14 Corporate Structures & Governance ★★★ ◆◆ Needs: L10
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🔒Level 15 Capital Budgeting ★★★ ◆◆◆ Needs: L05, L14
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🔒Level 16 Cost of Capital & Structure ★★★ ◆◆◆ Needs: L15
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🔒 👑Level 17 · EXAM The Analyst's Exam ★★★ ◆◆◆◆ Needs: L13, L16
The long traverse across the asset classes: how equity and bond markets work and are priced, how derivatives transfer risk, and where alternatives fit. The widest world.
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🔒Level 18 Market Organization & Indexes ★★★ ◆◆ Needs: L06
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🔒Level 19 Equity Valuation ★★★ ◆◆◆ Needs: L18
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🔒Level 20 Fixed Income: The Basics ★★★ ◆◆ Needs: L18
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🔒Level 21 Bond Pricing & Yields ★★★ ◆◆◆ Needs: L20
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🔒Level 22 Yield Curves, Duration & Risk ★★★ ◆◆◆◆ Needs: L21
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🔒Level 23 Securitization ★★★ ◆◆◆ Needs: L20
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🔒Level 24 Derivatives: Forwards & Futures ★★★ ◆◆◆ Needs: L18
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🔒Level 25 Derivatives: Options & Swaps ★★★ ◆◆◆ Needs: L24
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🔒Level 26 Alternative Investments ★★★ ◆◆◆ Needs: L18
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🔒 👑Level 27 · EXAM The Markets Exam ★★★ ◆◆◆◆ Needs: L19, L22, L25
The final push: combine every instrument into a portfolio, price risk with the CAPM, plan around a real investor, and account for the biases that trip people up. Reach the Summit.
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🔒Level 28 Portfolio Risk & Return ★★★ ◆◆◆ Needs: L19
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🔒Level 29 CAPM & the Efficient Frontier ★★★ ◆◆◆◆ Needs: L28
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🔒Level 30 Portfolio Planning & the IPS ★★★ ◆◆◆ Needs: L28
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🔒Level 31 Behavioral Finance & Fintech ★★★ ◆◆ Needs: L30
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🔒 👑Level 32 · EXAM The Summit — Charter Final ★★★ ◆◆◆◆◆ Needs: L29, L31, L27
Reach the Summit
Clear all 32 levels and the four end-of-world exams to summit Charter Climb with a working command of every CFA Level I topic — ethics, financial analysis, the asset classes and portfolio management — the ground every candidate is expected to own.
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