Accredited Asset Management Specialist - AAMS

The AAMS is yet another semi-useless accreditation in the finance world. (We should probably offer test prep for it here at Shmoop Central.)

In theory, it helps designees find jobs, but like...seriously...what real money management firm would care at all about someone having spent 16 hours of self-study, and then taken an oath to be, um, ethical...after passing a short test with questions like: "Should you sell a little old lady - a) T-Bills; b) Lottery tickets; c) Venture capital offerings; d) The Brooklyn Bridge?

The AAMS sits under the auspices of CFP (Chartered Financial Professionals) and, well, it fills up space on an otherwise very blank business card.