Manila, Philippines – INQUIRER.net will be publishing a new column on investor education, which will contain articles written by members of the Chartered Financial Analysts Society of the Philippines (CFAP).
The column, called Plain Vanilla, will be published every Friday. Both organizations hope that the editorial tie-up will help more Filipinos to invest, plan and save for the future.
The move is consistent with INQUIRER.net’s efforts to increase coverage of personal finance topics, one of the publication’s strengths.
"As Filipinos continue to prepare for a possible sullen economic future, it is imperative that they be educated on the vagaries of investing wisely," said Leo Magno, executive editor and vice-president of INQUIRER.net.
"Plain Vanilla not only adds flavor to the site's offering of timely business and personal finance information – it also lets Filipinos know that their financial stability should not passively be made subject to the whims of economic forces but rather, they should actively be planning to take advantage of those very same forces," he added.
Some of the CFAP’s missions are to improve investor education and raise the bar in the finance industry when it comes to competence and ethics.
“CFA Philippines’ vision is to be the thought leader in the local investment industry. We seek to raise the level of financial market integrity and spur development in the capital market,” says Mark Yu, president of CFAP.
CFAP is a member society of CFA Institute, the global membership association that administers the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) curriculum and exam programs worldwide; publishes research; and sets voluntary, ethics-based professional and performance-reporting standards for the investment industry.
CFA Institute has more than 96,000 members, who include the world’s 83,000 CFA charterholders, in 133 countries and territories, as well as 135 affiliated professional societies in 56 countries and territories.
CFAP was founded in the Philippines in 1997 with the support of the Capital Markets Development Council, Inc. (CMDCI).
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