The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has recently set up an Investor Orientation Department to continuously commit itself to better investor orientation activities. Such a measure will facilitate the specialization and regularization of the investor orientation activities.
As early as October 2000, the SSE took the lead to establish its "Investor Orientation Center". The present establishment of the Investor Orientation Department marks the SSE's endeavor in promoting orientation of investors.
It is the main responsibilities of the new department to:- work out some investor orientation schemes and carry out regular orientation activities toward the public investors;
- provide SSE's listed companies and members with the training of laws and regulations, self-regulatory rules, new products and services in the securities market, and improve their awareness of their responsibility of voluntarily educating and protecting investors and enhance their capabilities of fulfilling such responsibility; and
- plan, coordinate and promote the SSE's market services, and make the investor orientation become an indispensable part of the market services.
- analyze different investors' needs and evaluate the effect of investor orientation;
- define the relationship and work division between the agencies of China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), securities associations, listed companies and securities companies in their commitment to investor orientation;
- establish a sound mechanism for the coordination with the CSRC's agencies and securities associations and for information sharing, and set up a mechanism to monitor the performance of member companies and listed companies in investor orientation and services; and
- integrate available market resources, especially the market participants and social institutions, and build and optimize the investor orientation platform and network.