KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Financial Planning Council (MFPC) will hold the first of its financial planning My Money & Me virtual workshop series for 2022 on 26 March from 8:30am to 12.30 pm. YB Senator Tengku Datuk Seri Utama Zafrul bin Tengku Abdul Aziz, Minister of Finance Malaysia, will officiate the launch.
The workshop is held in conjunction with Global Money Week 2022, an annual international campaign of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and recognised as a national initiative. The theme this year is Build Your Future: be smart about money!Crucial to ensuring financial wellbeing is planning one’s finances early in life. As such, the core objective of the programme is to help youths make better financial decisions, as numerous findings of national studies have indicated Malaysian youths sorely lack effective money management knowledge. Workshops such as this will empower youths to practise positive financial behaviour and gain strong financial capability well into adulthood and their retirement years, ensuring their financial and emotional wellbeing.
The topics covered include asset protection, asset accumulation, asset management and asset distribution Speakers are from Bank Negara Malaysia, OFS and SIDREC, EPF, AKPK, SC, MTA, FIMM, LHDN and MFPC.
The programme will not be one-off learning as MFPC has launched an e-learning portal with free access for all wanting to gain financial knowledge. This will also ensure resources are available to build their financial knowledge.
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