The competition, held for 12th consecutive year, searches for the most competent young financiers from Thai university students nationwide. This year, the contest attracted over 5,000 students from 90 institutions. Out of these, 325 students from 38 universities passed the selection round and were provided intensive training courses to enhance financial and investment expertise.
SET President Kesara Manchusree said, "This YFS project has once again cooperated with strategic alliances in the Thai capital market. We are committed to enhancing and developing financial literacy and corporate social responsibility among university students to craft ‘quality capital market personnel’. We strongly believe that YFS will be vital in cultivating the Thai capital market personnel with the real investment and finance know-how, benchmarking with international standard and competitive in regional and global capital markets.
” YFS has contributed young talented professionals to the Thai capital market for 11 years. To-date there has been more than 45,000 students in the YFS project, a value-added contribution to the society. YFS 2014 has embraced a total of 210 persons who successfully passed the Securities Investment Consultant license, representing 73.43 percent of the total 286 candidates. Among these, 166 persons (out of 283) or 58.66 percent earned a derivatives license. On top of this, 55 persons who made it to the final round were awarded special training and testing consisting of Certified Investment and Securities Analyst course and Certified Financial Planner course for financial advisors. The YFS 2014 winners are 1. Chatchai Ngamvipas from Thammasat University, as SET Investment Star 2. Akkarin Supachavaroj from Thammasat University, as K-Expert Star 3. Worathon Woranitath from Chulalongkorn University, as Muang Thai Insurance Star, and two student groups were granted the PTT CSR Star Team and TFEX Derivatives Star Team.
YFS 2014 ran from June to September 2014, opening up opportunities, enabling the qualified youths to learn from intensive and challenging scenarios in finance and investment. The final round was held on September 7. The winners and first runner-ups were granted scholarships for financial study trips in Thailand and overseas. The total award value is THB 5 million (approx. USD 156,000). Academic support came from our partners namely Association of Securities Companies, Thai Financial Planner Association and The Capital Market Development Fund