What Is So Special In World Investor Week 2024?

Thu Oct 31, 2024

World Investor Week in India happened from 14th October 2024 to 20th October 2024
In this article, you’ll get a detailed brief of what micro-level concepts are being discussed in this WIW 2024 and what things you can implement in your finance career.

Here’s the brief given by the Chairman:
K Rajaraman - Chairman IFSCA

"We believe our primary role is to protect investors in whatever product or service they’ll be investing on. One of the things we ensure is the regulations & system should give clarity & transparency to the investors. So the regulation have managed to get the trust. Thus today, we not only have institutional investors into IFSCA we’ve many other retail investor types for forex adn another segment through brokers & banks. World Investor Week aimed at providing information to investors across the globe on how they need to be aware into the markets. Theme for this year is technology & sustainable finance and providing robust investing protection is a way to attract more & more investments and get a number of people to participate in this ecosystem. We’re looking for strong partnerships with market players, other attendees & other investors to create a very transparent & robust financial market."



How does the job of the CEO of an exchange in developing countries sound?
Convincing everybody that the capital market isn’t a gambling machine (instead an active way to earn through systematic investments.) Secondly to provide consistent investor protection

 

Why World Investor Week is important for exchanges?

SEC is an organisation for security authorities in other words all the securities & exchange commissions around the world get together to discuss which laws can be implemented to protect exchange investments. Developing & protecting the capital markets go hand in hand.

There’re a lot of investments being done in the gambling space, but for us who’re supporting genuine investments - the more accurate info retail investors gets, the more the investors will understand that the capital market is the way to go.


World Investor Week has a lot of scope in terms of learning and outcomes to students
You can see the recent visits being done by many colleges in NISM & in NSE & BSE to let students show the flow of the event and what all major things get discussed.

How’s the overall flow of the World Investor Week In Different Countries?

  • Discussing the investment opportunities by all the nearby countries exchange and where the regulation can be strengthened
  • Knowing which are sustainable practices can be adopted to increase the frequency of trading & involving tech to increase efficiency (read the below news to understand)
  • Getting more & more edtech players involved here to increase the education flow and make investors aware of all the minute things (high chance of getting the most suitable course for your career in WIW 2024)
  • Various companies partner with each other to increase literacy across colleges, corporate training and industrial visits
  • Speakers pick today’s relevant topics like cybercrime, and investing in genuine markets while considering all the major compliance details and not neglecting any small or big news. Though the exchange tries to increase safety as much as possible, we need to follow all the investor guidelines to strengthen the compliance system

Few glimpses of various World Investor Week inauguration cross locations and which are the learning students gainedYou must visit the coming WIW in 2025 for at least a day to know the flow (especially via college you get better exposure to all the speakers & delegates)

Prof. Sheetal Kunder

SEBI® Research Analyst. Registration No. INH000013800 M.Com, M.Phil, B.Ed, PGDFM, Teaching Diploma (in Accounting & Finance) from Cambridge International Examination, UK. Various NISM Certification Holders. Ex- BSE Institute Faculty. 16 years of extensive experience in Accounting & Finance. Faculty Development Programs and Management Development Programs at the PAN India level to create awareness about the emerging trends in the Indian Capital Market and counsel hundreds of students in career choices in the finance area.