Sebi chief launches SMARTS program to enhance investor education and awareness

The Sebi chairman also raised the concern relating to convoluted distribution of active investors throughout the country and said that SMARTs program would aim to address this concern by increasing investor outreach in far flung areas.

By ET Bureau | Updated: Nov 25, 2020, 10.03 PM IST

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.

Sebi chief Ajay Tyagi on Wednesday launched the Securities Market Trainers (SMARTs) program, a new initiative of the Reghu lord to enhance investor education and awareness.

“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”, Tyagi said.

The Sebi chairman also raised the concern relating to convoluted distribution of active investors throughout the country and said that SMARTs program would aim to address this concern by increasing investor outreach in far flung areas.

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