A San Francisco Bay Area financial advisor, Darrach Bourke lives in Corte Madera, California, where he works for Emerson Equity in San Mateo, California. Darrach Bourke is a member of the CFA Institute and its affiliated CFA Society San Francisco.

In addition to their certification and networking activities, both the CFA Institute and the affiliated CFA Society San Francisco provide a range of professional development resources to its membership base and the general public. The CFA Institute presents many of these resources in the Professional Learning collection on its official website.

The Professional Learning homepage offers clickable access to a range of publications, multimedia content, and best practice guidelines that can benefit CFAs and other people in a variety of ways. CFA Institute members can watch on-demand recordings of various CFA Institute Live Webinars to earn the recommended number of Professional Learning (PL) credits. Available free of charge to any interested party, the majority of these webinars are worth between .5 and 1.5 PL credits apiece.