buy study packs from strathmore book exams from kasneb.then register with kenyatta university's african virtual university for the finance degree and read for yourself.if you are sharp and committed you can kill two birds with one stone fast.
hope its not midlife crisis cos you sound thirtish

Any reasons as to why??? Full disclosure is always a good thing .....

Why not first do the csia (after getting exemptions) you should be through say in 1.5 years. Back that up with MSC finance from a prestigious uni (msc finance KU Takes one year four months) total number of years approx 3 years you will fit in very well in any investment company. Forget the CFA (unless you are willing to sacrifice 4-5 years)

T-Bag, if you really got a passion for trading, do the CFA from the CFA institute only, you will not need the Masters or anything else and there are no prejudices on your first degrees. I know very many engineers, psychologists, Chemists etc who got the finance bug and ventured into CFA and they are PM's CIO's etc. Even better for you is that you have ICT skills I presume you can code well, skills that may come in very handy in your desired career! Best of all it's cheaper and you can transition once you have got your level I or II sorted

Where there is career re-engineering there is Mawinder. Please give T-Bag more advice on how you changed your profession several times in one year.

All the information here is for academic paper chasers to each other. Why should anyone give you a job just because you have a CFA. That is nonesense.

My advice to you is parachute to the career wish to pursue. I am not sure what IT profession, which is equivalent to I'm in the agricultural sector, or what prop trading is.

This is how parachuting works. You are a banker/ accountant and you want to get into the development sector(I hate this stupid NGO terms). You look and apply for a job in the sector that is closely related to what your doing so finance department at the NGO or something. Then move to the area of interest within the organization having had some experience.

In your case you should just apply from a Job you are interested in. If you have a passion as you claim, you probably know a lot about the work it involves. Infact you can probably take a junior level or entry level position if you really want to change careers and parachute out once you have some experience in the field.

Save the money and don't waste it on degrees that do not make a difference.

@tony don't mislead the guy. The lad want's knowledge and from the advise you are giving, there is too much risk and probability of failure is very high. Reminds me of the hyena following the man and waiting for the hand to drop down so that it could get a meal.

Don't get fazed by the CFA pass rate. It's a global rate and there are many people who attempt but don't prepare well. This is among the few exams where what you put in is what you get. Work had and hope to always achieve 70%. It's doable.