Every CFA Institute member service—from the CFA Program to the CFA Institute publications to CFA Institute JobLine—is designed to advance your career as an investment professional. People recognize your commitment to professional growth when you join the CFA Institute. As a member, you pledge to your clients, your peers, and your employer that you are a consummate professional, and that you adhere to the highest standards of Professional Conduct. Take a moment to explore the benefits and privileges that you could enjoy as a CFA Institute member.
Make Strategic Contacts
Opportunity abounds within the CFA Institute and its Societies and Chapters for you to create strategic business partnerships that will benefit you throughout your career. Conferences, committees, the CFA Institute Membership Directory... as a member, you'll join the most lucrative career network that serves the investment industry.
Protect and Promote the Investment Industry
In joining the CFA Institute, you support the organization's sustaining Advocacy Program. Even as you read this, the CFA Institute is hard at work with an ambitious agenda to advance your interests-educating investors, lawmakers, and the general public about the important ways in which the CFA Institute members are serving the global investment community.
Advance Your Career
Among investment professionals and investors alike, the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Program carries the highest degree of respect and recognition. Earn your charter to demonstrate knowledge of capital markets and to position yourself as a candidate for rapid career growth.
Career Opportunity
Get access to the CFA Institute's exclusive CFA Institute JobLine, an Internet-based referral service that matches blue-chip investment professionals with the industry's most lucrative career opportunities. Available only to CFA Institute members.
Get Connected
CFA Institute's active presence on the Internet includes a Members' Only Section that brings member services—CFA Institute JobLine, CFA Institute Publications, and more—right to your computer's desktop.
Analyze Industry Trends
A subscription to the Financial Analysts Journal® (FAJ) accompanies your CFA Institute membership. The FAJ is a leading investment journal to which renowned industry experts contribute articles and on which nearly all industry professionals rely for in-depth analysis of investment issues.
Sharpen Your Knowledge
The CFA Institute's convenient education program delivers wisdom and advice straight from the minds of the investment industry's elite—nationally or internationally at the CFA Institute Conferences, locally at a videoconference or audio conference, or right at your office during a live webcast.
Benefits of CFA Society of Columbus Membership
To participate fully in the benefits of the CFA Institute membership, consider joining your local society. The CFA Society of Columbus (CFAC) is the Central Ohio connection to the global organization that comprises the CFA Institute. The CFAC is also your connection to the local investment management community. 300 members represent virtually every investment company operating in the Columbus area, and membership is your ticket to Central Ohio’s premiere society designed with your specific professional interest in mind. CFAC membership enhances your career, your development – professional and educational – and your enjoyment.
Network
CFAC membership gives you the inside edge to networking with the leaders of the Central Ohio investment community. Create relationships with local businesses that face similar strategic challenges as your business faces, and with your peers who encounter individual career issues that may resemble your own career. While attending CFAC programs, meet the featured speakers who are nationally recognized authorities in the investment industry.
Advance Your Career
Open the door to exciting career opportunities by associating yourself with managers from all the major employers in the Columbus investment industry. Also, by actively participating in our programs, distinguish yourself from your peers by exhibiting your commitment to the investment community. Position yourself as a candidate for promotion by applying the ideas you learn from CFAC activities to your present job.
Promote the Local Investment Industry
Among the objectives of the CFAC is to increase the public awareness of the CFA Charter, the CFA Institute, our local society, and the high ethical standards to which we adhere. Consistent with initiatives under way through the CFA Institute, the CFAC is actively promoting the local investment community to the investing public at large.
Make a Difference
Get involved with your local Society to have a real impact on the benefits to all Society members. The CFAC constantly seeks to become a better organization for its membership. Only through volunteer efforts from its members, CFAC achieves goals to realize improvements. Your efforts will be recognized and rewarded as they can make a real difference to the success of CFAC programs.
Continue Your Education
The CFA Examination Program is only the first step in your career as a CFA Charterholder. CFAC is your conduit to the vast educational resources provided from the CFA Institute's convenient programs. CFAC local programs include educational topics and often feature speakers who are recognized as authorities in their areas of expertise.
Have Fun
The CFAC recognizes the hard work and dedication required during your workday, so the CFAC provides you chances to relieve stress or just gather with friends in a variety of social settings. At substantially discounted prices versus non-members, participate in the annual golf outing, come to the post-CFA Exam party, or join us for a luncheon, dinner reception or cocktail hour.