The Qualified Investment Analyst (QIA)™ Program
By admin | May 2nd, 2010 | Category: Featured, QIA Program |A Focus on Practical Financial Wisdom for the Real World
We’re in the process of changing our organization’s legal name to Academy of Qualified Investment Analyst (AQIA)™. After our name change, this website will cease to work by end of 2010. Our new website will be www.aqia.org. As a non-profit educational organization, we recruit, train and certify value-based securities analysts to provide free and low-cost financial literacy educational programs in our effort to fight poverty and bring wealth creation know-how to those in need. We offer the Qualified Investment Analyst (QIA)™ Program that stresses on securities selection and practical investment research. We focus on the two most important courses as specified by superinvestor Warren Buffett, namely, (1) How to think about the market, (2) How to value a business. Our curriculum is mainly based on the Old Testaments by Benjamin Graham and the New Testaments by Warren Buffett. Our supplemental reading materials are based on the work of superinvestors like Eddie Lampert, Charlie Munger, Joel Greenblatt, Peter Lynch, and more.
All QIA candidates are required to donate at least 20 hours of public service per quarter to provide free or at-cost financial literacy education to the general public. A Qualified Investment Analyst (QIA)™ Designation can be issued to qualified candidates after (1) completing three years of training and self-study by studying the literature and methods of Graham and Buffett, (2) passing a series of exams on accounting and financial analysis, (3) writing three thesis on approved subjects in investment analysis, and (3) defending three in-depth investment research reports over a three year period.
The Qualified Investment Analyst (QIA)™ program is offered by a newly formed independent non-profit organization. To fully launch the QIA program and continue Benjamin Graham’s dedication to practical security analysis, we will seeking founders, sponsors, candidates, instructors and volunteers. If you would like to be a founding benefactor, if you want to be a volunteer, or if you are interested in the QIA designation, please email us at: aqia.org {at} gmail.com
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I am very excited that you all have chosen to do this — I think frankly it is far more worthwhile than the CFA program in terms of what I do. I hope that it gains traction, and please let me know what I can do to help.
Hi, Lila, thank you for your show of support! We need volunteers who could fill out funding applications and search for government agencies and foundations that provide grants to financial literacy programs for the young and the poor.
Anyone who could take ownership in this open learning institution, please email us at:
info (at) csainstitute.org