ASC’s Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Investing But Were Afraid to Ask Contest
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 ASC’s Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Investing But Were Afraid to Ask Contest 

ASC announces winner of Investor Education Month online contest

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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Investing contest winner Irene Seto receives her prize from ASC’s Director of Communications and Investor Education, Tamera Van Brunt.

CALGARY – November 17, 2011 – The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) has announced the winner of its Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Investing, But Were Afraid To Ask online contest as part of Investor Education month. Irene Seto of Calgary is the winner of a BlackBerry® 16GB PlayBook with Wi-Fi.

“Learning how to take care of your money is an important life skill, but not an easy one to learn. As a young investor, I am always looking for ways to learn more about investing and saving for my future,” said Seto.  “The contest allowed me to ask the questions I wanted to know about in a friendly and accessible way from qualified, unbiased experts.”

Albertans entered the online contest throughout October via Twitter or through an online form found on the ASC website.   The goal of the contest was to encourage Albertans to ask the ASC questions and check out the tools and resources that the ASC has available to help them make informed investing decisions.  In total, the public submitted 99 eligible questions ranging in topic from What is short selling? to What are the pros and cons of borrowing money to invest? to How do I research whether an investment company is legitimate?   

“We were impressed by the level of detail in the questions we received as it indicates Albertans are keen to better inform themselves about investing and how to protect themselves from an unsuitable investment,” says Tamera Van Brunt, ASC’s director of Communications and Investor Education. “We hope that through the contest, participants became more familiar with the unbiased investing information that can help them research any potential investment.”

To find out the questions submitted during the contest and the answers visit the Your Investing Questions page in the For Investors section on the ASC website, www.albertasecurities.com. 

The ASC is the regulatory agency responsible for administering the province's securities laws. It is entrusted to foster a fair and efficient capital market in Alberta and to protect investors.  As a member of the Canadian Securities Administrators, the ASC works to improve, coordinate and harmonize the regulation of Canada's capital markets.

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For further information please contact:


For Media Inquiries:      Mark Dickey
                                     Senior Communications Advisor
                                     403.297.4481

For Investor Inquiries:   ASC Public Inquiries
                                     Toll Free 1.877.355.4488

Here’s how it works:

  1. Think of a question you have about investing. 
  2. From October 6 to October 31, submit your questions about investing to the ASC via a tweet on Twitter or through a submission using the online form on the ASC website.
  3. Each eligible* question submitted will equal a draw entry for the Grand Prize, up to 15 total entries per person during the contest period. To enter and to be eligible to win, entrant must be a legal resident of Alberta and be over the age of 18 years.
    *To be eligible, your questions must relate to investing in general and must not include specific dollar amounts or names of individuals, projects or companies. Should you have a question of this nature, please email it to inquiries@asc.ca.
  4. Check back regularly to the “Your Investing Questions” page on the ASC website. By the end of the contest period, we will have posted the answers to all your eligible questions.
  5. Questions submitted via Twitter must be addressed to @ASCUpdates. Should your question be longer than 140 characters, feel free to use programs that allow you to extend your tweet and add more characters (e.g. TwitLonger, tmi). Questions submitted via the ASC website must be sent using the online form (see button at bottom of this contest page).
  6. There is a maximum of 15 entries per person during the contest period. Questions must be submitted by 11:59:59 p.m. MST on the last day of the contest, which is October 31, 2011.
  7. All eligible questions received will be entered into a random draw for a Grand Prize of a BlackBerry® 16GB PlayBook with Wi-Fi.
  8. The draw will take place Thursday, November 3, at the office of the ASC.
  9. The winner will be announced on Twitter and on this page of the ASC website.
  10. For full details, please read the Official Rules and Regulations.

Already submitted your questions or simply want to see what others have asked? Check out all questions and answers on Your Investing Questions.