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A new year means a new semester. New classes. New students. New teachers. And with that comes new opportunities.
Throughout the fall term in 2025, staff from the Nova Scotia Securities Commission visited universities, colleges and high schools across Nova Scotia both in-person and virtually to deliver presentations on informed investing. This included presentations for students at Saint Mary’s University, Dalhousie University, Cape Breton University, Woodlawn High School, Liverpool Regional High School, and C.P. Allen High School. With the winter term underway we’re ready to talk to more students.
Students in high school and in post-secondary education are entering a new phase in their life with careers, money and a future ahead of them. This future could include a family, their first home, cars, and saving for their children’s education and their own retirement. As life becomes real the need to invest also becomes real. But, why do they need to wait to learn about investing? Why can’t a basis of basic investment knowledge be gained before it is time to use it instead of catching up on it later in life?
The goal of the Student Connections Program is to deliver relevant investment information and knowledge to students before they need it. NSSC aims to deliver this basic investing knowledge by connecting NSSC Investor Education with Nova Scotia’s many post-secondary institutions and high schools.
Investment information can be delivered to groups through presentations on several different topics, including but not limited to:
· An Introduction to the Nova Scotia Securities Commission,
· Basic Investments,
· Securities Laws and Regulation,
· Investment Fraud and Scams
We are also able to present on more specific topics such as:
· Community Economic Development Investment Funds (CEDIF)s,
· Capital Raising for Small Businesses,
· Crypto Assets and Securities Regulation
· Registration for Working in the Investment Industry.
If you are interested in one of these presentations or would like more information on what the Nova Scotia Securities Commission Student Connections program can offer you, your class, group or organization, please contact us.
David Harrison
Investor Education & Communications Officer
902-222-5896
david.harrison@novascotia.ca