By Yakubu LAAH InvestAdvocate
Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-INVESTMENT ONE Financial Services Limited has commenced edition three (3) of its “Virtual Investment Simulator” (VIS) a gaming platform designed to educate Potential Investors and Researchers to enable them interact with the Nigerian Equities.
This is coming on the heels of the second edition award ceremony where winners were hosted at the company’s head office in Lagos Nigeria.
Abimbola Afolabi-Ajayi, Divisional Head Trust & Corporate Services at the ceremony expressed the company’s commitment and drive to achieve its capital market literacy program through its enriched investment education platform.
According to Afolabi-Ajayi Investment Education forms the core of INVESTMENT ONE’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
She said a total of N500, 000 was won in the recently concluded second edition of the VIS game, “Chimaeze Alozie, Otito Esedebe and Badmus Kehinde won N300,000, N150,000 and N50,000 naira respectively,” Afolabi-Ajayi said.
The N500,000 won at the second edition has made it a total of N1.0 million since the event commenced in August of 2012.
INVESTMENT ONE VISa flexible online game portal with in-built capabilities to enable potential investors and researchers to practically interact with the dynamics of the Nigerian equities and financial asset market in an online gaming environment.
The VIS is designed to motivate prospective participants (made up of potential investors, speculators, students, professionals, researchers and people from all works of life) to develop the art and science of investing by practically engaging them in making investment decisions without the risk of loss of real money in an online gaming environment.
Amongst others, the platform provides participants the opportunity to test their investment knowledge/skills and measure up the outcomes before committing their funds to real time investment and also provides cash returns for the first three participants with the highest returns on investment at the end of the 6months investment window.
According to INVESTMENT ONE, the third edition of the VIS commenced on November 01, 2013 and to register, interested participants should simply log on to www.investment-one.com/feds with a valid email address and phone number.
