Stakeholders

Investor and Financial Education Council

The Investor and Financial Education Council (IFEC) is the owner of this Financial Literacy Strategy and will

lead the implementation of the strategy by working with all the different stakeholders; and
deliver the core actions for each of the strategic focuses.
set and monitor success measures which reflect the goal for the collective effort in advancing financial education across different sectors, including improved access to financial education and the resulting shift in financial literacy in the population; and
review the strategy regularly to ensure its continued relevance and publish new/updated versions of the strategy when applicable.

Financial Education Coordination Committee

Organisations that are actively engaged in financial education join the Committee. Members come from different sectors, including the government and related organisations, regulators, financial institutions, industry associations and professional bodies as well as NGOs, etc.

They agree to support the Financial Literacy Strategy in the following ways:

align their organisations' financial education directions with the strategy and assist in the delivery of core actions of the strategy where possible;
share best practices in financial education;
help identify financial literacy issues; and
provide feedback to the IFEC on the strategy.

List of Financial Education Coordination Committee members

Policy makers

Policy makers, including councils, committees or boards of the government or related bodies, statutory bodies, industry bodies, NGOs, education institutes and commercial organisations, etc, are encouraged to

look into the role of financial literacy when developing their policies; and
direct resources to integrate financial education in their policy areas when needed.

Hong Kong public

The public are the beneficiary of having higher financial literacy. To achieve this, they should actively participate in financial education, be it attending activities, searching for information or just being more aware of public education messages