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A global membership organization that awards the CFA designation, CFA Institute leads the investment industry by setting the highest standards of ethics and professional excellence and vigorously advocating fair and transparent capital markets.

CFA Institute comprises more than 90,000 individual voting members and 135 member societies across the globe that believe in setting a higher standard for the investment profession. Individual members either hold the CFA® designation or are active in the investment business and all agree to abide by the CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct. (http://www.cfainstitute.org/centre/ethics/newCS.html)

The CFA Institute Board of Governors consists of 20 individuals who represent a cross-section of the CFA Institute membership.

With members in 132 countries around the world, CFA Institute has headquarters in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, and offices in Hong Kong, PRC, London, UK, and New York, New York, USA. CFA Institute is a 501(c)(6) organization incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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