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Financial literacy is necessary to enjoy the priorities in life, say symposium speakers.
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IN HIS keynote address at a financial literacy event, former Central Provident Fund (CPF) chief executive officer Liew Heng San tickled the audience when he asked them to fill in the casino self-exclusion form found in the programme booklet. The exercise was to illustrate his point that there are many poor money choices that one can make out of greed.
"Avoid bad habits, because all the good things you learn in financial literacy can be lost in one night, in one gamble," said Mr Liew, who is now an independent director of AIA Singapore. He is also on the board of the Singapore Bible College and a former board member of the Casino Regulatory Authority.
More than 300 people attended the two-hour Singapore Management University (SMU) Financial Literacy Fiesta Symposium on June 12. They included tertiary students, faculty and members of the public.
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