Diksia.com - JAKARTA, PT CGS-CIMB Sekuritas Indonesia hosted the ASEAN Investment Challenge in four countries namely Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.
The event was themed “Level Up Your Game” in 4 Countries (MIST) and aimed to educate young people comprehensively about equity investing based on Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) issues educate, improve and implement them.
PT CGS-CIMB Sekuritas Indonesia President and Director Lim Kim Siah said his party hopes the participants will be young investors who have sufficient knowledge about investing and will be born as the best young talents who are willing to build a strong capital market in Indonesia.
“As a securities firm, we are aware that we can provide the young generation with education and training directly from our experts, so that young investors can directly apply the knowledge gained in realizing their future dreams through investing, particularly based on ESG. ” . Investment. ,”, explained quoted on Thursday (06/07/2023).
Lim said there is a need to encourage young investors to make investing as a lifestyle a reality in the future.
“This aligns with financial literacy as a key pillar of CGS-CIMB’s ESG efforts and commitment to education as one of the ‘United Nations Sustainable Development Goals’ to empower young people to make sustainable investment decisions.” , he said.
According to Lim Kim Siah, the ASEAN Investment Challenge also aims to instill a comprehensive financial literacy that also includes ESG-based investments that prioritize future sustainability.
On the other hand, the Stock Exchange of Indonesia (BEI) fully supported the implementation of the ASEAN Investment Challenge 2023, in which more than 70 universities in Indonesia from 18 regions participated and will later compete.
Indonesia Stock Exchange Director Irvan Susandy said that through this competition, participants could learn a lot about the capital market in Indonesia and ASEAN and improve the skills required in the capital market sector.
“We appreciate CGS-CIMB Sekuritas Indonesia’s initiative to introduce ESG equities to the investment challenge and provide young people with a comprehensive educational journey on equity investing,” he said.
Irvan added that this will not only increase the number of young investors in Indonesia, but also raise public awareness of sustainable investments for a better future.
The ASEAN Investment Challenge will last until January 2024. This event consists of two levels of competition, namely the national round and the regional round.
In addition, students from universities compete against each other in national rounds in trading challenges with trading platform simulators and carry out e-learning courses so that they not only acquire qualified investment knowledge, but can also experience this in real stocks. investors.
The top three winners from each country in the national round compete again in the regional round, resulting in the top three winners from the four countries being determined at the end of the competition.
Source: Tribunnews / Reynas Abdila
