Award Ceremony for Virtual Stock Exchange Competition and “Where Are We in Providing Economy and Fi

Özyeğin Üniversitesi

The second Virtual Stock Exchange Competition held by Özyeğin University for high school students has ended. Students traded on the virtual stock exchange for a month by investing their virtual portfolio of 100,000 TL. The winner of the Virtual Stock Exchange Competition yielded 102% of return this year. The award ceremony of the competition will be held on June 9, 2011, Thursday at Özyeğin University in Auditorium 1. The winners will take their awards from Hüsnü Özyeğin, Özyeğin University Board of Trustees Chair. 

 

Prior to the award ceremony, the event will also include a panel entitled “Where do we stand in economics and financial education? The university is too late!” with the participation of Hüsnü Özyeğin, Prof. Vedat Akgiray, Capital Markets Board Chairman, and Yakup Engincan, CRA CEO. The panel to be moderated by Artunç Kocabalkan will be aired live on 

CNBC-e.

 

 

 

Prof. Dr. Erhan Erkut, Özyeğin University Rector 

 

CNBC-e) 

Though economics and finance courses are taught to students starting from secondary education in Europe and the USA, they are only offered at the university level in Turkey, especially if the student is placed to a Business or Economy related department. What are the implications of teaching economics and finance courses so late and as such causing students gain financial and economic awareness at such a late age? Could it be the reason why stock ownership is only 5% in Turkey? What would be the benefits of helping students gain economic awareness starting from high school?

Hüsnü M. Özyeğin, Özyeğin University Board of Trustees, Chair 

Prof. Dr. Vedat Akgiray, Capital Markets Board of Turkey, Chairman 

Yakup Ergincan, CRA, CEO

 

 

 

The event will be in Turkish.