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What's it about? | The game | Winners | On the floor | £500 piggybank | Make mine a billion! | Stocks 'n shares | Savings  WHAT'S IT ABOUT? It's about becoming a Star PIGGYBANK® FUNd MANAGER™ - and that's not a typo either! What's a FUNd MANAGER? and, more to the point, what's a FUNd? Read on young twinkling (star, geddit, geddit!!) and Ed. Pig will tell you all. back to top THE GAME The Piggybank Fantasy Stock Exchange is a great new game, played online - just for kids! Like a real stock exchange, YOU select the companies YOU'd like to buy shares in. The shares become part of your "FUNd" and YOU are its "FUNd MANAGER". To be a star FUNd MANAGER you have to be chosen (by a draw) from among those with the biggest FUNd in value at the end of each game. back to top WINNERS The winner of each game will receive the Star FUNd MANAGER's prize. For the first game, it will be a £250 Hamleys gift voucher... PLUS a special VIP invitation to Hamleys in London... PLUS a Special money-cannot-possibly-buy invitation to visit the Financial Times newspaper which will include lunch, meeting the editors and a tour of the newsroom... PLUS a VIP visit to the London Stock Exchange in the City of London. There will be FOUR runners up who will each get a super Piggybank prize. back to top ON THE FLOOR Now, some basics to start preparing you. First off, what's a share? A share is a part of a company. If you buy a share in a company, you are buying part of that company. To prove that you own your share, the company issues you a Share Certificate, an official piece of paper which shows how many shares you own. It may be as little as one share, or it could be millions! The place where people buy and sell their shares - 'trading' as it's called in the business - is called a Stock Exchange. Most countries have their own stock exchanges, but one of the most important, and certainly one of the oldest, is the London Stock Exchange. back to top £500 PIGGYBANK® CASH OINK! gives you £500 of PIGGYBANK® CASH to play with. We have selected 50 companies which we think you'll recognise (you may even use some of the products they make). Your job, as FUNd MANAGER, is to decide which companies you want to invest your money in and then buy or sell your shares depending upon whether they are moving up or down in value. The trick is to pick carefully, sell when you think the shares might go down and move your money to other shares which you think might also rise in value. back to top MAKE MINE A BILLION! It's not as easy as it sounds. At the London Stock Exchange, one of the oldest exchanges in the world, billions of pounds worth of shares are traded every day. Some go up, many go down, and you have to have nerves of steel and steady concentration. back to top BULLS 'N BEARS AND STOCKS 'N SHARES Like all businesses, trading shares has evolved over many years - about 500 actually. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE! During that time, distinct and unusual terms have developed and are now used in the course of every day life in the stock exchanges. OINK! has prepared a glossary or dictionary of terms which are used so you, too, can talk the talk. back to top The PIGGYBANK SAVINGS ACCOUNT  Although OINK! gives you £500 worth of PIGYYBANK® CASH to invest in shares, you may not want to use it all or you may decide to put some of it in the bank, where you know the money will grow, without risk, from the interest the bank gives you. OINK! Provides real time interest rates. Now you can really see how best to manage your money and what to do with it. back to top |
