Speaker: What’s happening, everybody? My name is Peter Olinto. I want to welcome you to the Wiley review for the CFA Exam. I just want to take a brief minute or two just to introduce myself. I’m one of the lead instructors for the level 1 and 2 exams. You’ll see me a lot on the videos online, as well as doing live boot camps and intensive reviews around the world. So hopefully, we’ll get to meet person one day, but just so that you know who I am and my background, I original went to Florida State University because I foolishly thought I had a shot of playing football, quickly realized that was never ever going to happen as I was knocked unconscious the very first practice. So I decided to join the Air Force ROTC because my brother flies jets in the Air Force, F16s, and man, that seemed like an exciting way to earn a living except for the fact that I’m afraid to fly. So when they took me up in a jet, I quickly realized this is never going to happen. So the advice of an uncle who was a partner, one of the Big Eight accounting firms he suggested that I go to school and get a degree in accounting and the reason I took his advice, he’s a good guy and everything, but he had two really nice homes, two really nice cars, and he had this big fat boat down the Jersey Shore. And I’m like, damn, if that’s kind of money a CPA makes, I want to be a CPA. And that’s a sad but true story. So I got my degree in public accounting. I went to work for Deloitte as an Auditor. I was fortunate to pass all four parts of the CPA exam on the first attempt. A lot of preparation, a lot of dedication, a good study plan. But I was able to do it, then decided to go to law school. I got my law degree from Fordham Law in New York City, then went to work for Ernst & Young to be a tax attorney. Left there after a short time, decided to start my own law practice where I did a lot of tax, real estate, estate planning. But really, my first opportunity to teach was in law school. I got the opportunity to teach first LSAT then SAT, GMAT, decided why I really like to teach them. Then when I left Ernst I started my own law practice to supplement my income. I started teaching a college. So I taught at Fordham University Graduate Undergraduate School of Business. I taught accounting and a lot of what I teach for the CFA Exam, financial statement analysis, really enjoyed it. I got the opportunity to teach CPA videos and that led to CFA videos. And not only have I been doing this for 20 years online, but I’ve been fortunate to travel all over the world all over Europe, North America, Asia, teaching live classes. So it’s really been great. I enjoy it a lot. Pretty much. What I do now is full time helping candidates prepare and basically what I could tell you is that no smarter than any one of you out there but certainly having passed all these exams and every single one on the first attempt, what I could tell you the difference for me was having a good study plan, sticking to it. These all these exams have such tremendous volume of information. It’s obviously something you can’t cram for. So a good study plan when you spread it out over three or four months, so you studying on average 15 hours or 20 hours a week is very doable. I will leave you with this, though. It’s a sacrifice, because if you’re working full time and you’re trying to study for the exam, they’re not mutually exclusive. You could do both, but you’re not going to have much of a social life for three or four months, so you really need to be motivated. What’s the end game? What’s the charter going to do for you? And let that motivation push you through because you can and you will do it. So I’m excited. Hopefully, I’ll get to meet you guys live in person. If not, we’ll meet each other obviously online through the videos, and I’m ready to go. So if you’re ready to do a lecture, let’s jump in and do it right now. Best of luck to you. Take care.