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thanks for all the helpful inputs. just out of curiosity, are any of you CFAs or have an MBA from such a top school? if so, where do you work?

Is being AACSB accredited enough to get a valuable MBA? I ask because my school Jacksonville State U> is AACSB accredited and i don't have much confidence in their MBA program based off of what I've heard. I know that at least one class in the program is a standard Finance Major class...

Apparently it’s a popular misspelling. Thank you for your contribution to the thread.

To the point about Level III assets having nothing to do with the average borrower defaulting on their mortgage. I found this exert on Wikiinvest (first thing that came up, I’m in a rush) about Level I,II, and III assets: Level 3 Financial assets and liabilities whose values are...

Isn't that a little bit reactionary? Is finance, as we know it, really gone forever? Won't companies need people to manage their assets, make informed decisions on where and when to get financing, where to invest extra capital? No one will need those services? I understand the market for...

I understand your point but at the same time, I don't think the business community at large blames the whole crisis on finance guys. Who were the people pushing the ideology that everyone should buy a house as soon as possible? Politicians. Banks didn’t just ignorantly go into this...

I actually had read through a thread from that page and one from this page and decided that I had a better chance of getting unbiased answers from this site as opposed to analystforum.com because it has advertising for Stalla and seems to be geared towards just CFA discussion. Not that the...

The misspelling is embarrassing, but I can't edit it so sorry. I have never bothered with checking for errors in forum posts because I consider them informal, but it would probably be a good idea to change that way of thinking when I'm asking for advice from people that I assume to be...

*I would first like to note that i have recently read through a thread posted in this section concerning this topic but I decided to make a new one given the fact that the first one took place in mid 2004. Considering recent history and my own personal situation, I would like to get some added...