His Excellency Mr. Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi, Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and Mr. Youssef Hamad Al-Bilihid, Vice Chairman of the Board of the Capital Market Authority, honored 44 winners of the fourth season of the Gulf Smart Investor Award, with prizes exceeding SAR 1.5 million in total.
The ceremony, held in Riyadh this evening, witnessed the honoring of the winners across the award’s four tracks: video, drawing, photography, and writing. Three winners from each of the individuals and university students categories were honored in each track, along with five winners from the school students category in each track.
Competition intensified in the current season compared to the third season of the Award, as the number of entries exceeded 300,000, compared to more than 88,000 entries in the third season.
The Award targets individuals, university students, and school students to participate across its four tracks, in line with its purpose and objectives of promoting financial literacy and enriching awareness content on the importance of saving and investing.
It is worth noting that Mulim, the GCC Investment Awareness Program, was launched under the umbrella of the General Secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council, with the participation of the securities authorities in the GCC countries. The program aims to raise awareness of financial transactions and investment in financial markets through a number of awareness campaigns and events.
