Assessed the trend of the contribution
Officially granted permission from the Financial Services Authority, PT Education Investment Advisors (Education Advisors) as an independent investment advisory company has the ambition to provide access to investment information, assistance and appropriate education to the public at large.
Co-Founder of Education Advisors in his press release in World, yesterday said, in addition to providing mentoring to investors, the presence of Education Advisors is also an effort of corporate entrepreneurs to support the government's focus on increasing financial inclusion in the World, including through investment.
"Investment education and socialization and mentoring which is an independent focus of Education, besides also going to take a digital technology-based approach, the roles of counsellors specifically millennial generation in our long-term plans, "he said.
In addition, the presence of Education Advisors as an investment company is expected to encourage the growth of local investors in the capital market. Referring to the World Stock Exchange data, local investor ownership until May 2018 increased to around 52.21% of the market capitalization which reached 6,450 trillion.
Departing from this, Ari Adil, Co-Founder of Education Advisors, assessed the trend of the contribution of local investors in the capital market that began to increase must be accompanied by a good understanding of investment by investors. "Education Advisors themselves are based on the awareness of parafounders to become investment advisors who represent the interests of investors. Through the role of an independent investment advisor without being tied to any investment company, we hope to be able to maximize investment analysis from an investor's perspective, "he explained.
Furthermore, despite an increase in local investor ownership in the World capital market, the data of the World Central Securities Depository shows, as of April 2018, the number of World residents who invest is still at a percentage of 0.5% or around 1.3 million people from the total 260 million people in the world. This is certainly also a role for Education Advisors to boost the growth of local investors.
Ari said, in the capital market law, investment advisor was explained as the party giving advice to other parties regarding the sale or purchase of securities. Investment advisors are required to be able to provide advice, make analysis and make reports to customers (investors). In the world itself, the role of investment advisors is not yet quite familiar in the capital market industry. For example, in Malaysia, investment advisors contribute 70% to mutual fund product offerings. In some countries such as America and China even the role of investment advisors is considered very important and able to contribute to the big decisions of investors.
"This is a challenge as well as an opportunity for Education, how can we develop the role of an independent investment advisor in the World so that in the future it can become a trend in the capital market industry," Ari said.
In addition, the company also cooperates with the Financial Institution Pension Fund Association to address the information gap about investment. The Chairman of the Association, Abdul Rachman, admitted that at this time the challenge facing the industry is ensuring how the industry is able to contribute to accelerating development in the World.
The collaboration with investment advisors, he said, is expected to be able to bridge the gap of limited access to information between pension fund managers and various investment products and instruments. Especially instruments that can help drive national economic growth. "Like infrastructure-based mutual fund based infrastructure, infrastructure-based securities investment collective contract as well as others," Abdul said.
The association currently consists of 24 members, including eight from banks and 16 from life insurance companies with total assets of around Rp 76.2 trillion.