The financial industry is packed with acronyms that can easily overwhelm consumers. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, lists 242 professional designations for financial ...
Thomas Lavrakas is a financial writer and editor with more than 20 years of experience in equity research, life insurance, US and international politics and journalism. He has worked for Standard ...
Professional designations are sometimes compared to alphabet soup, but behind them are years of hard work. Professional designations — those clumps of capital letters that often follow a financial ...