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Sri Aurobindo College of Commerce and Management, Ludhiana organised an Educative-cum-interactive session on Investor Awareness Program on ‘Financial Empowerment through Wealth Creation’ in collaboration with Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) on 26th May, 2022. In her inaugural address, Ms. Monica Sethi, Event Coordinator, shared that the Program is an initiative by Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI), the apex body of mutual funds and is a Pan India mass financial literacy program which has been conceptualized encompassing basic tenets of financial literacy and investor awareness through short duration financial literacy workshops.  Inaugurating the event, worthy Principal Prof. (Dr). Vishal Kumar welcomed the expert speakers Mr. Surya Kant Sharma, Senior Consultant AMFI and Mr. Harshdeep Singh, Area manager SBI Mutual Funds with the floral welcome. The key resource persons of the event touched upon the importance of financial security and the need of prosperity for each individual through different investment avenues. Initially, Mr Surya Kant Sharma emphasized on the fact that an investor must consider adequate life insurance, reasonable medical insurance cover and an emergency fund before embarking upon the journey of wealth creation through sustained investments which is most essential for prosperity. He then made a vehement plea for regular savings and increase of savings every year minimum by 10%. He explained the importance of investors to not to be money accumulator but wealth creator. Later, Mr. Harshdeep Singh talking at length about Mutual Funds, advised the general investors not to enter into securities market directly as there are inherent risks in the market unless the investor has sound knowledge of market, sectors, economy, international economy etc. Instead, mutual funds are the best option available for general investor though Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) specially through which one can build a good corpus over a period of time. Later, revered Principal, Prof. (Dr). Vishal Kumar, shared his personal views about the importance of financial literacy. He guided students about the principle of higher the risk and higher the investment and encouraged them to learn about financial technicalities before investment At the end, students displayed their inquisitiveness by actively taking part in question answer round. The event concluded with a formal vote of thanks by Joint Coordinator, Ms. Anchal Arora.