Why IAFI?

Holistic vision
The Institute of Advanced Finance (IAFI) has been established with a clear mission to impart quality financial domain knowledge to aspiring candidates. We wish to bridge the growing gap between the demand and supply for capital markets talent by focusing on sound educational practices and practical experience. Our single focus is on our students – we offer relevant and impartial career guidance to maximize the candidate’s ability to contribute to healthy and vibrant capital markets in India and abroad.

Best in class professional network

Our profession network of founders and faculty members is drawn from the IITs/IIMs with specialisation in finance and with proven track record as risk managers and analysts at leading New York/London based trading houses. They have additional qualifications like CFA®, FRM®, CPA® and overseas MBA. Our faculties strive to transfer their command of the area to program participants. You can find the profiles of core faculty members here.

Comprehensive classroom teaching
Unlike other institutes, we do not over burden our participants with unreasonable number of teaching hours each weekend. We spread lecture hours over approximately 3-4 months, thus making sure that everyone gets appropriate attention and adequate time for self study to grasp the subject. Our intensive classroom coaching by industry experts coupled with thorough sample exams will keep you ahead of the pack.

Individual care and attention
We value each and every candidate across all our programs. We strive to reach out to everyone and to make the sessions more meaningful and personalised, we limit batch sizes to only 20 students. This enables all students to readily access the instructors for any doubt clearing as and when needed. In addition, our faculty and founder members are always reachable by phone, e-mail and also face-to-face meetings beyond the class timings based on a candidates need.

Appropriate Career Guidance
Our mission is to enable our students contribute to their full potential in a satisfactory role in the capital markets space. Towards this end we offer impartial guidance on educational opportunities, career options, industry certifications, etc. We will help you get suitable interview calls and then help you to maximize your chance of converting these interviews into job offers. Therefore, we exclusively guide you on building a strong and differentiating resume.

For more details feel free to contact us.