CFA Sweden are extremely pleased to announce that, the student team from Stockholm School of Economics, representing Sweden, has won the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) regional final of the CFA Institute Research Challenge (IRC), the worldwide university competition for the financial analysts of the future, which took place at the Barbican in London, March 15-16.  The team of five students initially competed against 23 teams from the EMEA region.  Acting as financial analysts, Tommy Chen, Pham Kent Keiward, Fredrik Sundelin, Johan Wallin, and Yining Wang, researched and reported on Autoliv, the developer, manufacturer, and supplier of automotive safety systems.  The team was mentored by Fredrik R Ahlin, CFA, together with Professor Tomas Hjelström as faculty advisor, and the presentation was judged by a panel of investment industry experts. The four EMEA finalist teams were students from University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain), University College Cork (Republic of Ireland), and Wroclaw University of Economics (Poland).  The Swedish team will face students from Thammasat University (Thailand) and the winners of the Americas Regional at the global finale in New York, USA, on 11 April 2012.

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CFA Sweden has the pleasure to announce the June 2012 Society CFA® Scholarship for Level I, II and III candidates. The scholarship provides selected individuals with a substantially reduced fee structure in their enrolment for the June 2012 CFA exam.

CFA Institute is one of a handful of private sector organizations asked to participate in a Group of 20 (G-20) task force charged with making recommendations to harmonize financial regulatory standards worldwide. The task force—formed by the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) at the request of Christine Lagarde, formerly the French minister of economic affairs, finances, and industry—will present its recommendations at the G-20 Summit in Cannes, France, in early November. Task force members include representatives from the accounting, auditing, investment, banking, and insurance industries. This group will work over the next several months to provide an overview of the status of regulatory convergence in the global economy, identifying areas in which the absence of coordination creates inefficiencies and exposes the financial system to systemic risk. It offers an opportunity for representatives from different parts of the financial services sector to find common ground on such issues as systemic risk oversight and financial reporting. We look forward to representing our members on this task force.

In June, CFA candidates sat for the CFA exam in 266 test centers in 189 cities around the world. We are pleased to announce that 43 percent of the 115,027 CFA candidates worldwide who completed the exam passed. The Level I global pass rate was 39 percent, the Level II global pass rate was 43 percent, and the Level III global pass rate was 51 percent.

Of the 185 candidates in 19 countries who sat for the Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement (CIPM) Expert exam in April 2011, 43 percent passed. Successful candidates will be entitled to use the CIPM designation upon satisfying an experience requirement.

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