SMARTS- Securities Market Trainers an initiative by SEBI

The  SMARTs  programme  is  a  new  initiative  of  SEBI for enhancing  the  Investor  Education  activities. The need of hand holding the retail investors since there has been a surge of new investors in the securities markets in the last few months.

In  the  present  scenario  of  uncertainty  in  economic  growth  and  extra  ordinarily  buoyant market,  there  is  a  dire  need  to  further  ramp  up  the  investor  education and  awareness efforts. In that sense there couldn’t have been any better time to launch SMARTs –an initiative of SEBI to strengthen the existing investor education framework

SMARTs  is  a  new  initiative  of SEBI  to  enhance  its  investor  education  and  awareness activities

Investor Awareness programmes are conducted under the aegis of SEBI and are monitored by SEBI directly. These programmes will also be conducted in the local language.

SMARTs programme is, therefore, likely to be a game changer as investor education programmes are taken directly to the investors.  The education programs to be conducted by SMARTs will be free of cost to investors, while the cost of conducting the programme would be met from SEBI’s Investor Protection and Education Fund

 

These programs are conducted in both webinar mode and physical mode. For details of all programs please click here