Complete Cfa Level 1 Course 2025

Ace your CFA Exam with Confidence

What you'll learn

Prepare for the CFA® Level 1 exam

Learn tips and tricks to crack the exam

Confidently appear with a solid understanding of key concepts and formula

Practice enough in-lecture practical problems to tackle exam questions

Requirements

No prior experience is required.

Description

Complete CFA Level 1 Prep Course 2025: Your Path to Mastery in FinanceEmbark on your CFA journey with a course designed to simplify complex topics and equip you for exam success. This comprehensive CFA Level 1 prep course breaks down all key areas—from Ethical and Professional Standards to Financial Reporting, Quantitative Methods, Economics, and beyond. Each session is carefully structured to reinforce essential concepts, with clear explanations, real-world examples, and exam-style questions.Whether you're a beginner or building on a finance foundation, this course offers:- To-the-point lectures: Lectures are straight on-point and covers all the topics with in-lecture problem solving- Detailed Modules: Dive into each CFA domain with well-organized lectures, covering everything from fundamental principles to critical nuances.- Practice-Driven Learning: With hundreds of practice questions and mock exams, develop exam-ready skills and gain confidence.- Expert Guidance: Benefit from practical insights and strategies tailored by finance experts, making complex material accessible and manageable.Achieve your CFA goals with the support, resources, and insights to pass CFA Level 1 with confidence. With rigorous prep and strategic insights, this course equips you to pass CFA Level 1 with confidence. From tackling core concepts to understanding tricky exam questions, we ensure you’re ready for every challenge. Join us to take your first step toward a rewarding finance career!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Overview

Section 2: Ethical & Professional Standards

Lecture 2 Ethics and Trust in the Investment Profession

Lecture 3 Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct

Lecture 4 I(A) Knowledge of the Law

Lecture 5 I(B) Independence _ Objectivity

Lecture 6 I(C) Misrepresentation

Lecture 7 I(D) Misconduct

Lecture 8 II(A) Material Nonpublic Information

Lecture 9 II(B) Market Manipulation

Lecture 10 III(A) Loyalty, Prudence and Care

Lecture 11 III(B) Fair Dealing

Lecture 12 III(C) Suitability

Lecture 13 III(D) Performance Presentation

Lecture 14 III(E) Preservation of Confidentiality

Lecture 15 IV(A) Loyalty (1)

Lecture 16 IV(B) Additional Compensation

Lecture 17 IV(C) Responsibility of Supervisors

Lecture 18 V(A) Diligence and Reasonable Basis

Lecture 19 V(B) Communication with Clients

Lecture 20 V(C) Record Retention

Lecture 21 VI(A) Disclosure of Conflicts

Lecture 22 VI(B) Priority of Transactions

Lecture 23 VI(C) Referral Fees

Lecture 24 VII(A_B) Reference to CFA Program

Lecture 25 GIPS Standards

Lecture 26 Let us Recapitulate

Section 3: Fixed Income

Lecture 27 Meaning & Features of Fixed Income Securities

Lecture 28 Bond Indenture & Covenants

Lecture 29 Fixed Income Cashflow Structures

Lecture 30 Legal, Regulatory & Tax Considerations

Lecture 31 Legal, Regulatory & Tax Considerations

Lecture 32 Fixed Income Index

Lecture 33 Primary & Secondary Bond Markets

Lecture 34 External Loan Financing

Lecture 35 Security-based Financing

Lecture 36 Repurchase Agreements

Lecture 37 Long Term Corporate Debt

Lecture 38 Sovereign Debt

Lecture 39 Government Agencies

Lecture 40 Bond pricing using discount rate

Lecture 41 Yield to Maturity

Lecture 42 Flat & Full Price

Lecture 43 Relationship between Bond Price & Other Feature

Lecture 44 Matrix Pricing

Lecture 45 Annualized & Compounded Yield

Lecture 46 Other Yield Measures

Lecture 47 Yield Spreads

Lecture 48 Yield Spread for FRNs

Lecture 49 Yield on Money Market Instruments

Lecture 50 Spot Rates

Lecture 51 Par & Forward rates

Lecture 52 Bond Returns

Lecture 53 Reinvestment & Price risk

Lecture 54 Duration

Lecture 55 Macaulay Duration

Lecture 56 Investment Horizon & Interest Rate Risk

Lecture 57 Modified Duration

Lecture 58 Money Duration & PVBP

Lecture 59 Duration of ZCB, FRN & Perpetual Bonds

Lecture 60 Properties of Duration

Lecture 61 Convexity

Lecture 62 Portfolio Duration and Convexity

Lecture 63 Effective Duration & Convexity

Lecture 64 Key Rate & Empirical Duration

Lecture 65 Credit Risk Meaning, Source & Measure

Lecture 66 Credit Rating Industry

Lecture 67 Factors impacting Credit Spreads

Lecture 68 Sovereign Credit Analysis

Lecture 69 Non Sovereign Credit Risk

Lecture 70 Assessing Corporate Creditworthiness

Lecture 71 Seniority Ranking

Lecture 72 Securitization

Lecture 73 Securitization Process

Lecture 74 Covered Bond vs ABS

Lecture 75 Non-Mortgage ABS

Lecture 76 Solar ABS

Lecture 77 Collateralized Debt Obligations

Lecture 78 Mortgage backed Securities

Lecture 79 RMBS vs CMBS

Section 4: Economics

Lecture 80 Types of Markets

Lecture 81 Profit Maximization

Lecture 82 Breakeven Analysis

Lecture 83 Economies of Scale

Lecture 84 Market Structure

Lecture 85 Monopolistic Competition

Lecture 86 Oligopoly

Lecture 87 Determining Market Structure

Lecture 88 Types & Phases of Business Cycle

Lecture 89 Credit Cycle

Lecture 90 Economic Indicators

Lecture 91 Introduction to Fiscal Policy

Lecture 92 Fiscal policy tools

Lecture 93 Role of Central Banks & Transmission Mechanism

Lecture 94 Inflation & Exchange rate Targeting

Lecture 95 Neutral Rate

Lecture 96 Limitations of Monetary Policy

Lecture 97 5. Interaction of Monetary & Fiscal Policy

Lecture 98 Introduction to Geopolitical Risk & Co-operation

Lecture 99 Globalization

Lecture 100 Trade Organizations

Lecture 101 Assessing Geopolitical Actors & Risk

Lecture 102 Tools of Geopolitics

Lecture 103 Geopolitical risk in Investment process

Lecture 104 Benefits & Costs of International Trade

Lecture 105 Tariffs

Lecture 106 Quota & Subsidy

Lecture 107 Trading Blocs

Lecture 108 The Forex Market

Lecture 109 Market Structure & Rate Quotes

Lecture 110 Currency Regimes

Lecture 111 Trade Balance & Capital Restrictions

Lecture 112 Cross Rate Calculation

Lecture 113 Forward Rate Calculation

Section 5: Quantitative Methods

Lecture 114 Meaning of Time Value of Money

Lecture 115 Component of Interest Rate

Lecture 116 Compounding cash flows

Lecture 117 Discounting cash flows

Lecture 118 Perpetuity

Lecture 119 NPV and NFV

Lecture 120 Fundamental Concepts of Statistics

Lecture 121 Types of Data

Lecture 122 Frequency Distribution

Lecture 123 Data Visualisation Charts

Lecture 124 Arithmetic Mean

Lecture 125 Median, Mode & HPR

Lecture 126 GM & HM

Lecture 127 Covariance

Lecture 128 Range & MAD

Lecture 129 Standard Deviation & Variance

Lecture 130 Target Variance and CV

Lecture 131 Skewness & Kurtosis

Lecture 132 Scatterplot & Spurious Correlation

Lecture 133 Correlation

Lecture 134 Quantiles

Lecture 135 Box & Whiskers Plot

Lecture 136 Probability-Properties & Approaches

Lecture 137 Odds For & Against an Event

Lecture 138 Conditional & Unconditional Probability

Lecture 139 Joint Probability

Lecture 140 Addition Rule

Lecture 141 Dependent & Independent Events

Lecture 142 Total Probability Rule

Lecture 143 Expected Value

Lecture 144 Probability Tree

Lecture 145 Variance & SD

Lecture 146 Portfolio Return & Variance

Lecture 147 Bayes Formula

Lecture 148 Assignment Problems

Lecture 149 Discrete & Continuous Variable

Lecture 150 Probability Function

Lecture 151 Discrete Uniform Distribution

Lecture 152 Continuous Uniform Distribution

Lecture 153 Binomial & Bernoulli Distribution

Lecture 154 Mean & Variance of Binomial Distribution

Lecture 155 Binomial Tree

Lecture 156 Normal Distribution

Lecture 157 Univariate & Multivariate distribution and Conf

Lecture 158 Shortfall Risk and Safety First Ratio

Lecture 159 Log Normal Distribution

Lecture 160 Students T-distribution

Lecture 161 Chi-Square & F-distribution

Lecture 162 Monte Carlo Simulation

Lecture 163 Reasons and Types of Sampling

Lecture 164 Sampling Error & Distribution

Lecture 165 Central Limit Theorem

Lecture 166 Standard Error

Lecture 167 Point estimate vs Confidence interval

Lecture 168 Constructing Confidence interval

Lecture 169 Confidence Interval problems

Lecture 170 Sample Size & Resampling

Lecture 171 Sampling Bias

Lecture 172 Hypothesis Testing: Meaning and Steps

Lecture 173 Null & Alternate Hypothesis

Lecture 174 Two vs One tailed test

Lecture 175 Test statistic

Lecture 176 Level of Significance

Lecture 177 Decision Rule

Lecture 178 Conducting One tailed test

Lecture 179 Conducting Two tailed test

Lecture 180 The Shortcut

Lecture 181 Relation between CI and Hypothesis test

Lecture 182 P-value

Lecture 183 Test of a Single mean

Lecture 184 Tests concerning Mean differences

Lecture 185 Tests concerning variance

Lecture 186 Parametric & Non-parametric tests

Lecture 187 Meaning of Linear Regression

Lecture 188 Equation of a lIne

Lecture 189 Regression Equation

Lecture 190 Assumptions of Linear Regression

Lecture 191 Relationship between two variables

Lecture 192 Estimating slope and intercept

Lecture 193 ANOVA

Lecture 194 Hypothesis test

Section 6: Equity Investments

Lecture 195 The Financial System

Lecture 196 Trader vs Investor

Lecture 197 Rate of Return

Lecture 198 Classification of Assets

Lecture 199 Classification of Market

Lecture 200 Financial Intermediaries

Lecture 201 Positions

Lecture 202 Leverage

Lecture 203 Orders

Lecture 204 Primary & Secondary Market

Lecture 205 Meaning of an Index

Lecture 206 Types of Index

Lecture 207 Price Weighted Index

Lecture 208 Equal weighted index

Lecture 209 Market cap weighted index

Lecture 210 Float adj weighted index

Lecture 211 Fundamental weighted index

Lecture 212 Rebalancing & Reconstitution

Lecture 213 Equity Indices

Lecture 214 Fixed Income indices

Lecture 215 Alternative asset indices

Lecture 216 Meaning of Efficient Market

Lecture 217 Market value vs Intrinsic value

Lecture 218 Factors affecting market efficiency

Lecture 219 Forms of Market Efficiency

Lecture 220 Market Anomalies

Lecture 221 Behavioral Finance

Lecture 222 Equity in Global Markets

Lecture 223 Debt vs Equity securities

Lecture 224 Types of Equity Securities

Lecture 225 Private Equity Securities

Lecture 226 Non-Domestic Equity Securities

Lecture 227 Risk and Return Characteristics

Lecture 228 Return on Equity

Lecture 229 Company Research Report

Lecture 230 Determining Business Model

Lecture 231 Revenue Analysis

Lecture 232 Operating Cost & Working Capital

Lecture 233 Sources & Uses of Capital

Lecture 234 Capital Investments & Capital Structure

Lecture 235 Why analyse an industry

Lecture 236 Industry Classification Schemes

Lecture 237 Industry Survey

Lecture 238 Porters Forces and PESTLE Analysis

Lecture 239 Competitive Positioning

Lecture 240 Forecast Approaches

Lecture 241 Forecasting Revenue

Lecture 242 Forecasting Expenses & Working capital

Lecture 243 Forecasting Capital Investments and Capital structure

Lecture 244 Value vs Price and Diff Models

Lecture 245 Equity dividends

Lecture 246 Dividend Discount Model

Lecture 247 Free Cash Flow, Enterprise & Equity Value

Lecture 248 Capital Asset Pricing Model

Lecture 249 Preferred stock

Lecture 250 Gordon Growth & Multistage Discount model

Lecture 251 Multiplier Model

Lecture 252 Asset Based Valuation

Section 7: Derivatives

Lecture 253 Meaning of Derivatives

Lecture 254 Types and Structure of derivatives

Lecture 255 Forward Contracts

Lecture 256 Futures and Margin Money

Lecture 257 Open Interest and ForwardvsFutures

Lecture 258 Swaps

Lecture 259 Options

Lecture 260 Credit Derivatives

Lecture 261 Risk Aversion & Pricing the underlying

Lecture 262 Arbitrage & Valuation of Forwards

Lecture 263 Forward Rate Agreement

Lecture 264 Futures Pricing

Lecture 265 Swaps pricing

Lecture 266 Options pricing

Section 8: Alternative Investments

Lecture 267 Meaning of Alternative Investments

Lecture 268 Categories of AI

Lecture 269 Methods of Investing

Lecture 270 Investment structure

Lecture 271 Compensation Structure

Lecture 272 Hedge Funds

Lecture 273 Private Capital

Lecture 274 Natural Resources

Lecture 275 Real Estate

Lecture 276 Infrastructure

Section 9: Portfolio Management

Lecture 277 Historical and expected return

Lecture 278 Other Investment Characteristics

Lecture 279 Risk aversion, utility function & optimal point

Lecture 280 Portfolio of Risky Assets

Lecture 281 Optimal Investor Portfolio

Lecture 282 Capital Market Theory

Lecture 283 Systematic & Nonsystematic risk

Lecture 284 Return Generating Models

Lecture 285 Calculation & interpretation of beta

Lecture 286 Capital Asset Pricing Model

Lecture 287 Portfolio Appraisal Measures

Lecture 288 Security Selection & Portfolio Construction

Lecture 289 Portfolio Perspective

Lecture 290 Portfolio Management Process

Lecture 291 Investment Clients

Lecture 292 Asset Management Industry

Lecture 293 Pooled Investments

Lecture 294 Portfolio Planning

Lecture 295 Portfolio Construction

Lecture 296 Introduction to Behavioral Biases

Lecture 297 Cognitive errors

Lecture 298 Emotional Biases

Lecture 299 Market Anomalies

Lecture 300 Risk Management Process

Lecture 301 Risk Governance

Lecture 302 Identification & Interaction of Risks

Lecture 303 Risk Drivers & Metrics

Lecture 304 Risk Modification

Section 10: Corporate Issuers

Lecture 305 Corporate Governance & Stakeholder Interests

Lecture 306 Conflict of Stakeholder Interests

Lecture 307 Mechanisms of Stakeholder Management

Lecture 308 Board of Directors

Lecture 309 Capital Allocation Process

Lecture 310 Types of capital projects

Lecture 311 Capital Allocation Assumptions

Lecture 312 Sunk Cost

Lecture 313 Opportunity Cost

Lecture 314 Externality

Lecture 315 Conventional Cashflows

Lecture 316 Independent vs Mutually exclusive projects

Lecture 317 Project Sequencing

Lecture 318 Capital Rationing

Lecture 319 Net Present Value

Lecture 320 Internal Rate of Return

Lecture 321 NPV vs IRR

Lecture 322 Return on Capital

Lecture 323 Real Options

Lecture 324 Sources of Finance

Lecture 325 Financing Considerations

Lecture 326 Liquidity Management & Sources

Lecture 327 Pulls on Liquidity

Lecture 328 Drags on Liquidity

Lecture 329 Measuring Liquidity

Lecture 330 Weighted Average Cost of Capital

Lecture 331 Cost of debt and Preferred stock

Lecture 332 Cost of equity & Project Beta

Lecture 333 Meaning of Capital Structure

Lecture 334 MM Proposition

Lecture 335 Cost of Financial Distress

Lecture 336 Meaning of Leverage

Lecture 337 Business and Financial Risk

Lecture 338 Degree of Operating Leverage

Lecture 339 Financial & Total Leverage and Break-even point

CFA® Level 1 candidates,People interested in taking the CFA® exams,Individuals who are interested in a career in finance,Anyone who wants to learn Ethics, Quantitative Methods, Corporate Finance, Economics, Alternative Investments