FINRA Investor Education Foundation Newsletter

FINRA Foundation and USA Track & Field Foundation Help Athletes Sidestep Investment Fraud 

The Foundation and the USA Track & Field Foundation have announced that they are working together to help track and field athletes spot and avoid investment fraud and make informed financial decisions.
 
To launch this joint initiative, the Foundation presented its Outsmarting Investment Fraud (OIF) curriculum at the 2011 USA Track & Field Annual Meeting earlier this month. Track and field professionals learned how to check the background of financial professionals and spot an investment that is too good to be true. The OIF curriculum reveals the tricks of the con artist's trade by highlighting the psychological persuasion tactics con artists use to get their victims to make emotional rather than logical investment decisions.

For track and field athletes, an understanding of these psychological tactics and how they can be used against investors can help them avoid becoming a con artist's next victim. The OIF educational curriculum has been tested and shown to reduce susceptibility to investment fraud by over 50 percent among participants.

Read the press release and learn more about the Foundation’s Investor Protection Campaign.

FINRA Foundation Supports First Lady's "Joining Forces" Initiative with Expanded Financial Education Offerings for Military Families

In support of First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden's "Joining Forces" initiative, the Foundation has expanded its Military Financial Education Project. Launched in 2006, the project provides servicemembers and their families with free, unbiased tools and information to help them manage their money with confidence.
 
To support "Joining Forces," the Foundation will offer free FICO^® Scores to 50,000 servicemembers and spouses—doubling the number of individuals receiving this vital credit tool. The Foundation will also develop a suite of educational videos to help members of the National Guard manage their finances and avoid investment fraud and continue efforts to educate and train military spouses as financial counselors.
 
The Military Financial Education Project includes educational forums on military installations, a comprehensive online resource, and more. It was designed to meet the unique financial education needs of servicemembers and their families who are often faced with frequent moves and extended deployments.

Find out about the project at www.SaveAndInvest.org.

Using Social Media, Social Marketing and Brain Research to Improve the Design and Delivery of Financial Education

If you wonder how social media, social marketing and psychological and brain sciences intersect when it comes to financial education, you will want to read this brochure. Business and research faculty at Dartmouth discus how developments in these areas offer new ways to think about effective ways to provide different audiences with the financial knowledge, skills and techniques needed to make sound decisions. These key concepts, practical tips and examples were presented at a 2010 symposium co-sponsored by the Foundation and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Download the brochure (PDF 1 MB).

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