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Having fun getting to know the world of securities
45th International
Raiffeisen Youth Competition
The participants in the Raiffeisen stock exchange game ‘School In-
vestor 2015’ experienced six fascinating months. Aside from en-
joyment of the game itself, the subject of financial education was
very much to the fore. Raiffeisen Club Tirol helped the pupils to
learn about handling money and securities responsibly and to fa-
miliarise themselves with the possibilities of the capital market as
well as shares, funds and certificates. Equipped with notional capi-
tal amounting to 40,000 euros, the pupils were able to buy and sell
securities of all kinds while measuring themselves against other
schools all over Austria. The pupils all agreed: ‘It is fascinating how
quickly the markets move and, most of all, how quickly you have
to make decisions. In a matter of seconds you can lose or earn a
lot of money.’ The 4a class from NMS Matrei am Brenner, 1BK from
BHAK Wörgl and 4D from BHAK Innsbruck (in the photo with su-
pervising teacher, Brigitta Obholzer, and authorised representa-
tive Manfred Miglar, director of private and corporate customers at
Raiffeisen-Landesbank Tirol AG) had the best feeling for securities
and occupied the first three places in the Tyrolean regional assess-
ment.
‘Always mobile, always online: what moves you?’ was the theme of the
45th International Raiffeisen Youth Competition. Around 20,000 drawings
were submitted in Tyrol alone. The best were honoured personally at the
regional final by the ace climbers Anna Stöhr and Jakob Schubert in the
Metropol cinema in Innsbruck.
The International Raiffeisen Youth Competition fosters creativity, encourag-
es youngsters to take an interest in current topics and is the biggest com-
petition of its type in the world. It is carried out from the first primary school
class to the upper school and has been established for many years.
Photo: The first-place winners with Christine Hofer (manager of Raiffeisen
Club Tirol) and ace climbers Anna Stöhr and Jakob Schubert.
‘School Investor 2015’ was partici-
pated in by
8,200
pupils
and teachers
from all over Austria.
In 2015, more than
80
percent
of all participants
achieved a positive result. Ten pupils
even managed to double the value of
their initial stake.
Some
11,500 quiz sheets
and
20,000 drawings
were re-
ceived at 70 participating Tyrolean Raiffeisen banks
on the occasion of the 45th International Raiffeisen
Youth Competition.
Almost
1,100
children and
adolescents
came to Innsbruck for the
closing event.