Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) Qualifications Syllabus

Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) Qualifications covers 7 subjects: UK Financial Services Regulation and Professional Integrity, Economics and the Financial Markets Environment, Securities, Asset Classes and Investment Products, Investment Analysis, Risk and Portfolio Management, Wealth Management and Financial Planning, Operations, Settlement and Custody and Risk Management in Financial Services. Together they contain 29 chapters and 103 named topics.

The full Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) Qualifications outline breaks down into 29 chapters, 103 topics and 116 sub-topics. Securities, Asset Classes and Investment Products is the largest single subject with 20 topics across 5 chapters.

Roughly 100 hours for one full pass. That estimate allows about 45 minutes per topic plus 12 minutes per sub-topic, so it is first-pass coverage — revision, past papers and mock tests sit on top of it. At 3 hours a day that is about 5 weeks.

Yes — 357 question-and-answer flashcards across 7 decks, one per subject, written against this syllabus. A sample of every deck is readable on this site for free, and the complete decks are in the Examius app.

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