Requiring 4 years of qualified professional experience and the passage of three, grueling 6-hour exams, the CFA Charterholder designation is not an easy qualification to obtain.  As such, there are only 90,000 charterholders around the world. Doing a quick search of ‘CFA’ amongst the 14,500+ junior to senior PE professionals in the PrivateEquityFirms.com database yields [...]