This month, Intelligent Investing is diving into Investor Education, trying to help our readers improve their financial IQ.
In 2009, the Investor Education Foundation of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) conducted a similar investor survey.
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Instead, federal and state regulators are engaged in an increasingly public skirmish over how best to spend the money meant for investor education.
If your goal is investor education, then disclosure of all the facts relevant to making an investment decision should be the rule.
For years, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation has filed its annual Form 990 federal tax return without listing the names of its seven directors.
But beyond that, this is fundamentally a problem of investor education.
The global settlement, announced in April 2003, came in four parts: funds to repay investors, funds for the states, funds for independent research and funds for investor education.
The ICI has long argued its dues-raising arrangement is reasonable, because many of its activities, including investor education and lobbying for lower fund taxes, benefit shareholders.
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The lack of transparency and poor investor education around this issue has kept it out of the limelight, but it can cut into your earnings or deepen your losses.
Here are some tricks and traps to be alert to, courtesy of Gerri Walsh, vice president of investor education at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra), the securities industry's self-regulatory body.
Inmarsat still has some investor education to do though.
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Most investors expect the U.S. to adopt IFRS eventually and believe the transition will depend on a clear framework for auditors, a satisfactory level of U.S. influence over standard-setting, and investor education and communications.
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In its first survey of Americans' financial acumen, the Finra Investor Education Foundation the research arm of the securities-industry regulator found that about half of those 45 or older hadn't tried to calculate their retirement needs.
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Mr. JOHN GANNON (Senior Vice President, Office of Investor Education, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority): Many people think that the typical victim of investment fraud is a little old widow sitting there by herself, alone.
Ted Bloomberg, who heads up education for TD Ameritrade, thinks about investor education at three levels: providing basic information (what is a stock, what is a bond type stuff), followed by further engagement with tutorials and ultimately in-depth training with coaches or teachers.
Robert Stammers, Director of Investor Education at the CFA said that while Baidu represented the potential for opportunities in the global market, investors should not expect to earn a great rate of return by simply choosing investments with high historical returns like Baidu or choosing the stock as a means to participate in the Chinese economy.
In addition to his Netflix day job and presence on the boards of Microsoft and Facebook, the former President of the California State Board of Education is a lead investor in adaptive learning provider Dreambox.
U.S. investors believe IFRS adoption will require substantial training and education, including within the investor community.
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Even though the federal government does have a role--we are a 9% investor--the primary policymakers and funders of education are in state and local government.
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