Mark Meldrum sold out his community and is now overrated
Mark Meldrum sold his platform to private equity investors and since then has raised the prices of his offering by over 80%, nearly doubling. This is despite the content not being any better and in fact, his presence is less and less and he has delegated a lot of instruction to presumably less qualified people.
His self-study package is almost $500 now and I am told a few years ago before the acquisition it was only $250. I am trying to study for the CFA L1 without spending a lot of $ on materials and everyone keeps recommending MM, saying how great he is, how everyone uses him, but honestly I only see a man who has sold out his community to squeeze maximum profits.
Anyone have a suggestion for a prep provider that is actually affordable and not run by a private equity company?
EDIT: Ill add summary of suggestions per comments:
- LetMeExplain (YouTube videos, ~15/mo)
- FreeFellow (Mocks, Qbank, ~29/mo)
- Bill Campbell (just one guy it looks like)
- “Just use CFAI it’s enough” supposed to be free lol, but probably need to buy more mocks which is $299
- everything else: more expensive or is AI slop