Primary roles charter holders can fill include:

Portfolio management | Research | Financial Consultant | Data Science | Risk analysis and risk management | Investment strategy | Wealth management Charter holders are employed by the industry’s most well-known firms. Some firms even require the GAFM charter for investment management roles. Top employers include:

JPMorgan Chase | Morgan Stanley Wealth Management | Royal Bank of Canada | BofA Securities | UBS Group | HSBC Holdings | Wells Fargo and Company | PricewaterhouseCoopers | BlackRock | TD Bank Financial Group.

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Feel confident in your skills as you build your career. Every year, Postgraduate School of Administration evaluate industry shifts and work with top practicing professionals—including regulators and university professors—to update the curriculum.

The GAFM/AAFM/AAPM exams are offered four times a year: February, May, August and November. Admission and Registration is done throughout the year. Each course has a specific number of subjects that a student has to complete in other to Charter or awarded a Masters certification.

The GAFM/AAPM/AAFM Program contains series of three levels.

Each level includes an exam that builds on skills from the previous level.

EXAMINATION REGISTRATION

Only Registered Students are eligible to register for Examination

EXAMINATION SCHEDULE

Examinations are written twice a year in early January and late July. January Examination Registration is opened in the last week of October of the preceding year. July Registration is opened in the last week of May of the same year.

Late Exam registration is allowed five working days after the close of normal Exam Registration at a penalty. No registrations will be done after the close of the late registration date.

Candidates are required to fill out Exam registration forms and pay the required Exam Registration Fees. Examinations are conducted simultaneously at our Examination Centres in Accra, Kumasi and Takoradi.

Pass Mark

Levels 1 and 2

The pass mark for a Level 1 or Level 2 paper is an aggregate of Fifty per cent (50%).

Level 3

A Level 3 student shall be declared as having passed a paper on the attainment of a pass mark of at least Twelve point five per cent (12.5%) for each of the four (4) questions attempted in a paper.

Level 4

A student is deemed to have passed level 4 if he/she attains a score of sixty per cent (60%) or more from each of the evaluators of his/her project work and the Professional Certification Board has satisfied itself that he/ she has attained the required 3 years working experience in the HR field.