OSC Launches Revamped Investor Education Website GetSmarterAboutMoney.ca

For Immediate Release OSC

TORONTO – The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) today launched a newly redesigned and mobile-friendly GetSmarterAboutMoney.ca.

GetSmarterAboutMoney.ca is an award-winning investor education website that provides investors with unbiased information and interactive resources to help them make informed investment decisions. The OSC has redeveloped the website from the ground up to enable visitors using mobile devices and tablets to engage with its entire suite of investing articles, videos, tools and calculators.

“Delivering modern and effective investor education is an important objective of the OSC,” said Tyler Fleming, Director of the OSC Investor Office. “The new GetSmarterAboutMoney.ca reflects how people today seek out information and provides investors with the best possible experience, whatever their device.”

The new GetSmarterAboutMoney.ca provides a seamless mobile and desktop user experience across all platforms, with streamlined menus, clear navigation and an expanded search tool to help visitors find information quickly. Saving, sharing and printing articles have been made even easier, and users can quickly ask their own investing questions with the touch of a button.

Investors can also follow @smarter_money on Twitter and GetSmarterAboutMoney on Facebook for more investor education resources, activities and announcements from the OSC.

The mandate of the OSC is to provide protection to investors from unfair, improper or fraudulent practices and to foster fair and efficient capital markets and confidence in the capital markets. Investors are urged to check the registration of any persons or company offering an investment opportunity and to review the OSC investor materials available at www.osc.ca

 

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