The Trinidad and To­ba­go Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion (TTSEC) in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the San­gre Grande Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion and Fi­nan­cial Sec­tor Stake­hold­ers host­ed its sec­ond In­vestor Ed­u­ca­tion (IE) Com­mu­ni­ty Out­reach Road­show on Wednes­day.

Un­der the theme “Em­pow­er­ing Com­mu­ni­ties Through Fi­nan­cial Lit­er­a­cy and In­vestor Ed­u­ca­tion’, the road­show aimed to equip mem­bers of the pub­lic with the knowl­edge and re­sources nec­es­sary for them to make wise fi­nan­cial and in­vest­ment de­ci­sions.

In his open­ing re­marks, Vice Chair­man of the San­gre Grande Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, Coun­cil­lor Nas­sar Ho­sein, made the point that fi­nan­cial lit­er­a­cy is no longer a lux­u­ry but rather a ne­ces­si­ty. He told the au­di­ence that in to­day’s fast-paced world, man­ag­ing mon­ey wise­ly is key to se­cur­ing our fu­tures. He added, “Yet many of us have not been taught how to bud­get ef­fec­tive­ly, in­vest wise­ly, or avoid fi­nan­cial pit­falls. This lack of knowl­edge of­ten leads to poor fi­nan­cial de­ci­sions, un­nec­es­sary debt, and, in some cas­es, fi­nan­cial hard­ship.”