Editing Chartered Financial Analyst (section)

===Ethical and professional standards===
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Members of CFA Institute, including charterholders and candidates for the CFA designation, must:
* Act with integrity, competence, diligence, respect, and in an ethical manner with the public, clients, prospective clients, employers, employees, colleagues in the investment profession, and other participants in the global capital markets.
* Place the integrity of the investment profession and the interests of clients above their own personal interests.
* Use reasonable care and exercise independent professional judgment when conducting investment analysis, making investment recommendations, taking investment actions, and engaging in other professional activities.
* Practice and encourage others to practice in a professional and ethical manner that will reflect credit on ourselves and the profession.
* Promote the integrity of, and uphold the rules governing, capital markets.
* Maintain and improve their professional competence and strive to maintain and improve the competence of other investment professionals.
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The ethics section is primarily concerned with compliance and reporting rules when managing an investor's money or when issuing research reports. Some rules pertain more generally to professional behavior (such as prohibitions against [[plagiarism]]); others specifically relate to the proper use of the designation for charter-holders and candidates. These rules are delineated in the "Standards of Professional Conduct", within the context of an overarching "Code of Ethics".<!-- ; see sidebar.-->