Doha, October 08 (QNA) - Qatar Financial Markets Authority (QFMA) announced the launch of an awareness campaign for the fourth season of the Gulf Smart Investor Award that recently launched by the Gulf Investment Awareness Program (Mulim), which runs from September 2025 to the end of February 2026.
The Investment Awareness Program Mulim is a Gulf awareness initiative that aims to raise awareness of financial and investment culture and produce content that enriches the culture of financial transactions in the GCC communities.

The program was first launched in its first season, in 2020, by the capital markets regulators in the GCC.
Since then, QFMA has been contributing to the success of the program in all its phases, with the aim of raising awareness among investors in Qatar and the GCC, spreading awareness of the basics of investing in the capital markets, fraud and risk methods, ensuring the need to adopt strategies that help mitigate such risks, and introducing the regulations and legislation that govern transactions in the financial markets, which eventually raise the standards of efficiency in these markets.

The Gulf Smart Investor Award aims to enable competition among creative university students, school students, or talented individuals from citizens and residents of the GCC through four tracks, namely video, drawing, photography, and writing, to select 44 winners, 11 winners in each track, in order to spread investment culture, raise awareness of the importance of saving and investment, how to avoid financial fraud, and raise the level of financial awareness among community members to enhance their ability to plan and enabling them to have the elements to make the right financial decisions that achieve financial stability and enhance their ability to achieve their financial goals.

The award also seeks to raise the level of financial literacy by acquiring the necessary skills that help in using financial resources in the most effective and efficient manner.

The GCC Smart Investor Award allows participants to submit their entries under three main categories, including financial planning, savings, and investment. Following the end of the stage of receiving entries in the various tracks of the award, the work of the judging committees will start in March 2025, with the winners to be approved by April 2025, and then the final ceremony to honor the winners will be held in May 2026.
The award targets citizens and residents of the GCC countries, with prizes exceeding QR 1.5 million.

Head of Communication Section at Public Relations and Communication Department at QFMA Maryam Al Heidous said that the "Gulf Smart Investor Award which is witnessing its fourth consecutive season, has gained great importance from all GCC capital markets authorities, explaining that QFMA actively participates every year in promoting the award in Qatar, and encouraging various segments of the local community, especially university and school students, to actively participate in all tracks and categories of the award.
Al Heidous pointed out that the QFMA's interest in the success of the Gulf Smart Investor Award in all its seasons stems from its mission aimed at enhancing financial literacy among various segments of society, developing the level of financial skill and knowledge among investors, protecting them and enabling them to make the right investment decision at the right place and time, in a way that contributes to encouraging and developing investment in a safe financial market and an attractive investment environment, which plays a major role in supporting the growth and diversity of the national economy.

Al Heidous explained that the topics covered by the award deal with saving, financial planning, sound financial habits, sound spending, saving, financial terms, expense, wastefulness and extravagance, money and currencies, investment, financial fraud, protecting funds and investments, and money box.
Al Heidous called on talented citizens and residents of Qatar to actively participate in the award, in order to showcase their ideas and innovations, and make them available to those who wish to benefit, develop their capabilities, and enhance their financial knowledge.

Al Heidous confirmed that there is a special judging committee, comprised of experts from various GCC countries with expertise in the award's tracks, which will supervise, evaluate and sort the entries and select the winners.

Those wishing to participate in the award and to view its conditions and the participation mechanism, can visit the Mulim website (mulimgcc.org) program. (QNA)