The number of candidates completing chartered financial analyst exams is in stubborn decline as demand slides for a qualification once seen as essential for the profession.
The latest available results for CFA Institute, which oversees the tests, show 116,727 people sat all three levels of the exam in the first eight months of the year, down 2,735 on the same period in 2023.
Last year there were 163,000 exam registrations, 40 per cent down from the peak of 270,456 in 2019.
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