The Autorité des marchés financiers has worked together with teachers to develop a series of activities to promote better financial education for youth. Through simulated exercises and role-playing, these activities will help you assess your students’ knowledge of personal finance and introduce savings and investment concepts to them. These exercises aim at increasing the future investors’ knowledge and teaching them to consult different sources of information and develop critical thinking before making financial decisions

• Budget scenarios

  This activity is aimed at teaching participants the importance of setting up a budget so that they can better manage their money and plan for their expenses.
  
  
  
  

• Budget grids

  This activity helps students prepare a budget by entering their own figures.
  
  
  
  

• The Grasshopper and the Ant

  Through this activity participants will become familiar with borrowing and lending instruments and discover their main characteristics.
  
  
  
  

• What is your investor profile?

  This activity will help participants understand notions such as risk tolerance and risk/return ratio associated with financial products.
  
  
  
  

• Questionnaire : investor profile

  Students can determine their investor profile and learn what their risk tolerance level is.
  
  
  
  

• How to read newspaper stock listings

  This activity helps young people read and track share prices in the financial pages so that they learn what factors can influence the performance of a security.