“Why hide it?” I asked.
One night, cleaning his desk, I found a worn CFA Institute envelope. Inside: a congratulatory letter dated 2019. Leo had passed Level III five years ago. secret cfa
Leo was the quietest quant on the desk. No LinkedIn updates. No CFA merch. But when the merger model broke at 2 AM, he fixed it in ten minutes. When the intern asked about convexity, Leo drew a perfect bond price-yield curve from memory. “Why hide it
I didn’t tell anyone. No framed certificate on the wall. No “CFA” in my email signature. Just me, three levels of hellish exams, and a quiet obsession with ethical alpha generation. cleaning his desk