About InvestRight

InvestRight is the B.C. Securities Commission's one-stop resource for investors to educate themselves on how to make informed investment decisions. The InvestRight website provides a wide range of tools to help investors develop critical thinking skills they need to protect themselves - information such as how to do background checks, investment products, a scam meter and video clips from victims of investment fraud.

The BCSC's Red-Flags communications campaign alerts investors to common sales pitches used by scam artists along with a province-wide seminar program.

InvestRight is funded through our Education Fund. We appropriate the administrative penalties and settlement amounts we collect under the Securities Act  to our Education Fund, which we spend only to educate securities market participants and members of the public about investing, financial matters or the operation or regulation of securities markets.

About the BC Securities Commission

The BC Securities Commission is the independent provincial government agency responsible for regulating trading in securities in BC.

We regulate the markets by:

• educating industry and investors
• establishing qualifications and standards of conduct for those registered to advise investors and trade on their behalf
• mandating information publicly traded companies must disclose to ensure investors have access to the facts they need to make informed investment decisions
• setting rules of fair play for trading securities
• policing the markets for misconduct
• deterring and removing from the market those who do not comply or who cheat investors

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