Amid growing interest in asset formation in old age, which is said to be the age of 100 years of life, high schools and securities companies have begun collaborating to learn financial knowledge and the importance of planned asset formation in class. I will.
Of these, the private Yokohama Soei Junior and Senior High School in Yokohama City is conducting mock lessons to learn the importance of asset formation in collaboration with Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities.
In last month's class, a securities company employee gave a class to students who were in their first year of high school from this month, and through simulations of funds required for marriage and housing purchases, the importance of planned asset formation and stocks I explained the mechanism of investment.
A student who took the class said, "In the future, I felt that not only saving money but also investing would be an option."
One of the teachers said, "I think it's important to teach about investment in order to prepare for the future."
Regarding financial education in high school, the new course of study starting in 2022 includes touching on "asset formation" such as stock investment and investment trusts in home economics classes.
For this reason, according to major securities companies, efforts have begun in various places to hold seminars on finance for teachers and to support employees of securities companies by participating in classes.
Aoi Moriyama of Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, who served as a lecturer in the class, said, "It is important for young people to learn that investment is one of the options for asset formation. I think there are many school teachers who are not familiar with investment, so I would like to listen to their worries and questions and cooperate with them. "