To mark the start of Investor Education Month, the Financial Planners Standards Council is inviting Canadian to take its one-minute financial quiz.

The quiz is available on the FPSC Web site at www.cfp- ca.org/public/public_testyourfinancialiq.asp.

The FPSC Web site offers investors information, advice and resources that can help Canadians get into financial shape this spring.

The FPSC is also reminding investors that it can connect them with one or more of the 15,000 professionals in Canada who hold the Certified Financial Planner designation.

As part of Investor Education Month, the Canadian Securities Administrators are emphasizing the importance of lifelong learning. Canada’s securities regulators have launched a nationwide campaign to help Canadians — in particular, youth and seniors — become informed investors.

Together with the North American Securities Administrators Association the CSA is launching an Investment Fraud Awareness Quiz. The online quiz is designed to test investors’ knowledge of investment scams and frauds, and encourage investors to watch out for the signs of a scam. The quiz will be available April 28 on the CSA website www.csa-acvm.ca.

The national winner of the CSA “Test Your Financial IQ” Contest, which ran in Fall 2002 and Winter 2003, will be announced mid-April. Contestants were required to submit an essay detailing how they would invest the contest grand prize of $2500 according to their risk tolerance, time horizon and goals, and give their thoughts on investor education for youth. The purpose of the contest was to encourage Canadian youth to learn about investing.

In addition to the national campaign, securities regulators in each province and territory have organized investor education events and seminars for investors in their locale.