Celebrating Success: Professor Simon Hussain

Congratulations to Professor Simon Hussain on this paper ‘The development of the chartered financial analyst in the United States during the twentieth century’ which has been published in Business History.

Abstract: This article examines the rise of a professional rating for financial analysts – the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) award. The development of a professional rating is explained here as a need to brand and distinguish those analysts who had undertaken a formal training and achieved the necessary skill-sets. Three themes are used to trace this development: the emergence of regional communities of analysts, leading to a national federation and the CFA institute in the post-war years; the development of a formal body of knowledge which could be examined formally; and the need for a code of ethics, as existed for established professions. This study applies elements of a technological deterministic model, augmented with the concept of epistemic communities, to the emergence of the CFA.

Link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1830063