Hello Shankar,

If I understand you correctly you would like my input, yes? I think the easiest way to answer your question is to work backward from your dream career. Ask yourself: in my market do people doing the work I dream about hold CFA charters? If so, then, yes, of course get your CFA charter. If people doing your dream work do not have CFA charters then I would suggest you think carefully before investing the considerable time and effort into achieving the gold standard financial designation. You can do this by looking at job/position listings to see if they ask for a CFA charter. If they ask for such a designation then clearly it is important in your market.

One other way to get a better answer to this question would be to contact someone who is doing the work you want to do and ask them if having a CFA charter will make you a more qualified candidate. If the answer is, yes, then by all means sign up : )

I hope that helps,

Jason