Bourse-BIBF launch Investment Academy

The launch event held under the patronage of Industry, Commerce, and Tourism Minister and Minister-In-Charge of Bahrain Bourse Zayed Al Zayani saw a ceremonial ringing of the BHB trading bell by the minister, in the presence of BHB chairman Abdulkareem Bucheery and officials from the bourse, BIBF, banks and financial institutions.

“The initiative is in line with the strategy that aims at fulfilling the vision towards enhancing awareness on various investment and trading instruments,” said BHB chief executive Shaikh Khalifa bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa.

“The academy is being offered in collaboration with the BIBF as one of our key initiatives to enhance investment awareness, targeting particularly a broader spectrum of public audience.”

The Investment Academy is an investor education training provider within the capital markets (www.bibf.com/bahrainbourse) aimed at offering technical market know-how targeted towards beginner, intermediate and professional investors to enhance their capital markets knowledge with innovative teaching methods and technologies.

BIBF director Dr Ahmed Al Shaikh said the institute’s Centre for Banking aspires to be at the forefront of imparting practical knowledge through its programmes.

“The academy would seek to disseminate professional training opportunities on trading, investment, saving, foreign exchange and much more to everyone who is keen to learn the options that are available for investing and saving and enable them to fulfil their personal goals on wealth creation,” he added.

It aims at further expanding Bahrain’s horizon and market positioning to also become an intellectual hub for capital markets training and knowledge.

The Investment Academy’s mandate will cover public awareness sessions, professional certifications as well as key trending topics in capital markets.

It targets a broad spectrum of audiences from students to individual investors and small business investors providing them with the basic knowledge of financial products and investment strategies.

The Investment Academy will cover both professional certifications (including Series 7, Series 79) as well as general capital markets focused programmes.

The academy will help develop critical skills and capacity of the investment industry to harness the potential of capital markets.

Source: http://www.gdnonline.com/Details/295829/Bourse-BIBF-launch-Investment-Academy