Facts from figures
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Certification as a chartered financial analyst is gaining international prominence, and the proportion of candidates from outside N America seeking to take the exam has jumped from 5% to 20%. A series of three exams, one per year, leads to CFA certification; only about half the test-takers pass, or a bit over 18,000 people since 1963. Certification is said to be worth a $200,000-per-year job on Wall Street, where those fund managers who have it moderately to significantly outperform their brethren without it.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1996
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Workers' morale drops in Hong Kong during downturn
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Worker morale has dropped more rapidly during the 1997 recession in Hong Kong than it has in Singapore, though less than researchers may have anticipated, according to a new survey from International Survey Research. Roughly 42% of workers at the city's 40 biggest firms reported they were contented with their employers, as opposed to 54% in Singapore, 46% in China, 65% in the US and 74% in Switzerland.
Publication Name: The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0191-0132
Year: 1998
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