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Key financial education programmes targeted at investors are listed below, by category, and by country within each category.

Government programmes

MoneySmart , Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)
Consumer/Financial Education, Austrian Financial Market Authority
Educating Investors, Chilean Securities and Insurance Supervisor (Superintendencia de Valores y Seguros - SVS): http://www.svs.cl/sitio/english/inversionista/inversionistas.php
Consumer Protection, Estonian Consumer Protection Board
Investor education, Commissione Nazionale Per Le Societa E La Borsa (Consob), Italy
Consumers information, Italian Securities supervisor ISVAP
Investors communication, Treasury Debt Office, Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance
Investors Programme, Japan Financial Services Agency (FSA)
Consumer Protection, Qatar Central Bank
Consumer protection and investor education, Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV), Spain

Civil Society programmes

Investored, Investor Education Fund, Canada
Životuplusu, The Personal Finance Counselling Association, Croatia: a not-for-profit public benefit organisation that helps Croatian citizens master their personal finances. http://www.zivotuplusu.info/step.jsp?page=292090
The Danish Shareholders Association provides a 3-hour course teaching people how to buy (regularly) and hold (min. 7 years) a diversified (min. 10-15 shares) of reasonably priced (present P/E lower than average P/E during the last 5 years) growth stocks (increasing sales and net result during last 5 years).
Pörssisäätiö Börsstiftelsen, Introduction to the Finnish Stockmarket, Finnish Foundation for Share Promotion, http://www.porssisaatio.fi/en/
The Finnish Foundation for Share Promotion has arranged road shows of Investment Evenings for as many as 15 years to promote share ownership among Finnish people.The Investment Evenings (Pörssi-illat) provide listeners with current information on the prospects of the economy as well as Finnish listed companies, from a shareholder’s point of view. The objective of the events is to promote Finnish share ownership, as private persons are an important owner sector of Finnish listed companies.