(April 12 – 15:15 ET) – This Thursday, Apr. 13, volunteers from Toronto’s financial community will be visiting schools in the Greater Toronto Area, Durham Region and the Niagara Peninsula to share their knowledge of capital markets with school children.
The school visits are part of Investor Education Week, which takes place from April 10 to 14. Financial professionals from the Ontario Securities Commission, the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Investment Funds Institute of Canada will teach Junior Achievement’s Personal Economics course to grade seven classes.
“A key audience of this year’s Investor Education Week is young people,” says OSC chairman David Brown. “A total of 27 staff members from Ontario’s securities regulator are reaching out to grade 7 students in 18 schools with information about the value of knowing about their personal finances.”
Personal Economics is an interactive program that allows students to identify their skills and interests and then relate those interests to possible educational and career paths. Students also develop an understanding of the principles and methods of effective personal and financial planning.
-IE Staff