Comments on: Oh, and One More Thing

By: Lumilog

Lumilog — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:26:55 +0000

Just sent it out to you Abhi. Happy Studying!

By: Abhi

Abhi — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:49:50 +0000

Hi Lumi,
please mail me the spreadsheet too.And best of luck for levelIII.

Regards,
Abhi

By: Lumilog

Lumilog — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:50:40 +0000

Hi Sen,

I still have the copy that Steve mailed me and will email it to you – but know that the curriculum changes from year to year so you’ll need to update it (the timestamp on the file says October 13, 2007).

-lumi

By: sen

sen — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:50:06 +0000

Hi Steve, Just read your blog, very helpful and encouraging , I am preparing for the Level 1 Dec 2010 exam..
could you please email me the spreadsheet that steve prepared
senamii2@yahoo dot com.

Thxs

By: Lumilog

Lumilog — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:29:17 +0000

Just sent a copy of it to you Jacob. Hopefully your coursework will give you a head’s up – much easier than starting from scratch!

- Lumilog

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:33:16 +0000

Hi Lumilog:
Great blog. I just finished MBA (General Management) in December and received the CFA material (i live in Canada). I will be writing the June exam as well. I know that i am VERY late in starting the CFA 1 exam prep, but i hope that many courses in Finance, Acct, Econ etc. taken at MBA level will help me. Anyways, thanks for a great blog – lots of useful info here.
Does anyone has the spreadsheet Steve prepared to keep track of preparation for CFA. Steve if you are reading this entry (or any other kind soul), could you please email it to me at:
akhtarjacob followed by at followed by gmail dot com
Thanks all and Good Luck.
Jacob

By: Lumilog

Lumilog — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:06:42 +0000

Yes that seems to be the overwhelming consensus. Just waiting for my annual Christmas amazon gift certificate from my parents to arrive and will no doubt spend part of it on a BAII+.

Maybe two…

- Lumilog

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:12:10 +0000

Throw away the HP and get 2(TWO) TI BAII Plus.

Two in case one breaks down.
TI is much more easy

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:10:33 +0000

Perhaps its the geeky side of me but I loved the finance calculator discussion here. I actually also read through both the 12C and also TI and calculator links. Its fascinating how this calculator 12C has retained its perennial best seller status and longetivity. Still, technology and computing has moved on and I wondered if this says more about the state of the ‘finance’ profession than the calculators. That is, are the hedge funds using these, are these thought as antiquated and the hedge fund quants are using more advanced visualization y to spit out measurements and estimates. There’s enough tech minded people on this blog (engineers, computer people) to probably ‘innovate’ and be making money ‘in addition’ to learning the principles of asset allocation. That is, what would be great is that building from the ‘foundations’ of the CFA material, reverse engineering from course material (series I, II III) and someone should build a new calculator as this course seems to be globally industry standard (and I’m not even signed up – perhaps this is my inner entrepeneur). I’d be thinking about applying some of the current thinking on Information Visualization/Human Computer interaction to this product – do something like the iphone or ipod for finance calculators and somehow also connect them with communication/network technology and possibilities. The trick like the iphone or ipod or these original calculators is to keep things fundamental and ‘well’ engineered. I’d still be interested in seeing some finance calculator comparisons – coincidentally my wife brought home a scientific calculator from work that she uses (she’s a lab tech at our local university) and this also got me wondering if the finance calcs are solar!

I also recently saw this utube video of this options guy from the Chicago Board of Exchange talking about his options mathematical knowledge development (he was an engineer who originally was working on the US Black Hawk project) and he spoke about how in his down time at work he’d always be punching in the “Black Scholes” functions on his “finance calculator” to be pricing options while they flight tested the jets. I wonder if the “Black Scholes” model is included in both of the calcs mentioned above?

P.S. – I found the 12c 25th anniversary platinum edition (68 dollars) and BAII Plus (27 dollars) on shopzilla. If anyone sees any cheaper deals please respond.

By: Borj

Borj — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:16:24 +0000

Kindly email me too the said spreadsheet folks…

RGBorja.LGUPlangui@gmail.com

Any other relevant materials can also be emailed plssss….

Thanks!

Borj