CFA sees Asian membership rocket, plans expansion

Asia is now well established as the growth engine globally for the CFA Institute, and that is reflected in the organisation’s plans for the region. Nick Pollard, CFA’s Asia managing director, is looking to open an office in Shanghai this year – which will be the institute’s fourth in Asia – and to add four test centres, two in China and two in India. This comes a year after Pollard took over from Paul Smith, who became the CFA’s global chief executive. “We need to make ourselves…