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Profile of Money College - Our Mission and Commitment
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Booming Japanese individual investor sector
Japanese stock market is booming. After a long-slumping economy for over 10 years, the Japanese economy has finally moved back to a right truck to a steady growth. Accordingly, the stock market has risen again. The Nikkei Stock Index rose more than 40%, from 11,489 Yen to 16,111 in year 2005 alone.
So is individual investor sector. The number of accounts held by the "Big 5" (*) internet securities company has achieved an exponential growth and it surpassed a 3 million mark in February 2006.
This trend resulted in personal wealth. More and more money is put into at-risk asset classes and in year 2005, the proportion of at-risk asset classes jumped to 14.7% from 10.8% in the previous year.
*E*Trade Japan, Matsui Securities, MONEX, Inc., Rakuten Securities, kabu.com Securities
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Few Japanese have appropriate financial intelligence
Everything seems to go well at a first glance. Stock performance is good, unemployment rate is low, and many corporations report the highest annual turnover to date.
There is a hitch: Few Japanese have appropriate financial intelligence
An OECD survey said:
"71 per cent of adult respondents have no knowledge about investment in equities and bonds, 57 per cent have no knowledge of financial products in general, and 29 per cent have no knowledge about insurance, pensions, and tax."
Why?
Could this happen in one of the most advanced society in the world?
The reason is simple: A typical Japanese person has virtually no chance to get formal education on money, neither in formal education system, nor in adult education.
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That's where Money College comes
Money College, a novel provider of investor education in Japan, with its strong management team, provides a holistic curriculum on money and get customer satisfaction.
"Holistic" curriculum
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Money College offers a holistic curriculum on money. It covers from spending side (personal financing) as well as earning side (investing). from flow side (money-management) to stock side (debt management). |
Customer satisfaction
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Money College has a proven history of getting superior customer satisfaction. Money College’s interactive session, Workshop, gained popularity easily and the student evaluation marks as high as 4.4 on average (out of 1 to 5 scale). |
Strong management team
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Tomohiro Kida, Managing Director
Before he started up Money College, Mr. Kida worked for Globis Management School, one of the most prominent business schools in Japan. At Globis Management School, he played a key role in creating a diploma program, Graduate Diploma in Business Administration program. Because the program satisfied a number of students as well as the academic community, it was later given a degree-granting authority and became Graduate School of Management, Globis University with government approval.
Mr. Kida worked for Watson Wyatt K. K., a Japanese branch of an American based HRM consulting firm, Watson Wyatt Worldwide Inc. before he worked for Globis Management School. At the firm, he helped his clients install defined contribution pension plans (the Japan version of the 401k plan), through which he gets access to the investment industry.
Mr. Kida earned his MBA from London Business School in 2001 (with scholarship given by the school) |
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Contact Us
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Symmetry Japan Inc.
Money College is a division of Symmetry Japan, Inc. |
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Shimpo Building 4F
6-13-7 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Japan, 104-0061 |
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+81-3-6226-5077 |
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info @ money-college.org |
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