FDP Charter is exclusively designed for finance professionals or students who work with financial data and/or make decisions based on financial data - as well as those leading or auditing these activities

Typical roles / industries

• Investment management professionals e.g. quantitative analyst, investment manager, quant developer
• Risk Management (especially risk professionals who wish to be closer to the investment decision-making process)

• Technology and/or Data professionals working with financial data

• Compliance
• Insurance
• Credit cards & other Payments

Pre-requisites for registering for the FDP Charter

• There are no pre-requisites for registering for the FDP Charter.
• Those who do not have relevant experience and/or education (see below) should expect to spend at least 200 hours studying for the exam, with the Python eLearning course in addition. You may also wish to review the below book recommendations.
• Candidates with a background in finance, economics, computer science, or mathematics - as well as programming (Python / R) or statistical modeling - are likely to require less than 200 hours of exam study, depending on experience.

Additional references for those without statistics and/or econometrics experience

• Time Series Analysis by James D. Hamilton

• Quantitative Investment Analysis, 4th Edition