CMA LAW: Press Release: An Extensive Awareness Campaign for the Fourth Gulf Smart Investor Award by the Capital Markets Authority

Kuwait, December 22, 2025 – The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) of Kuwait continues its extensive awareness campaign to promote the fourth season of the Gulf Smart Investor Award. The campaign, which was launched by CMA in early November, will extend until the end of February next year, coinciding with the end of the competition's participation period.

The CMA's campaign incorporates a variety of activities and events, ranging from press releases and interviews to radio and television awareness and promotional messages, alongside social media posts and university and educational workshops. The goal is to raise awareness of the competition, which is accessible to all citizens and residents of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries commencing in September 2025 until the end of February 2026. The campaign also seeks to encourage Kuwaiti citizens and residents to participate more actively in this year's competition than in its previous three seasons.

As part of this campaign, nine awareness workshops were conducted in the education sector to introduce the competition. One of these workshops, held at Maria Al-Qibtiya High School. Eight workshops were held at universities: two at the Australian University, and one each at the American International University (AIU), the American University of Kuwait (AUK), the College of Technology and Aviation, the College of Administrative Sciences at Kuwait University, the Gulf University for Science and Technology, and Abdullah Al-Salem University.

Furthermore, the CMA participated in the "Accounting Week" events held at the American University of Kuwait (AUK). The CMA participated in the week's panel discussion and had an information booth at the accompanying exhibition. Visitors were introduced to the CMA and the joint Gulf awareness program, "Mulim," with a focus on the fourth season of the Gulf Smart Investor Competition, its paths, participation requirements and mechanisms, and the prizes for the winners, which exceed one and a half million Saudi Riyals.

Within the framework of this campaign, a section of the CMA’s online awareness magazine was dedicated to introducing the competition. In addition, introductory videos about the competition and its various paths were published as part of the aforementioned events. The remaining campaign activities are expected to be applied in the upcoming period.

The campaign coincides with a similar promotional campaign for the same competition launched by member states of the joint Gulf Investment Awareness Program "Mulim"—including Kuwait—extending until the end of February. The aim is to raise awareness of the competition and encourage citizens and residents of the GCC countries from all segments and age groups (allocated into three categories: individuals, universities, and schools) to produce educational materials that promote financial literacy and expand investment awareness among the public. This will be achieved by addressing related topics such as saving, sound spending and financial habits, avoiding bad behaviors and financial fraud, and more.

It is worth noting that the current competition – the fourth season of the Gulf Smart Investor Competition launched by "Mulim" in 2022 – has witnessed qualitative and quantitative developments. These include the addition of a "writing" path to its existing categories (video, photography, and drawing), as well as a significant increases in the prize poll, with a leap of 9 prizes in the amount of 300,000 Saudi Riyals in the first competition to 44 prizes exceeding 1.5 million Saudi Riyals in the current competition.

It should be mentioned that the Gulf Investment Awareness Program "Mulim" is a joint awareness program launched under the authority of the General Secretariat of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf with the participation of the securities authorities in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and aims to raise awareness of financial transactions and investments in capital markets.

The Capital Market Authority is announcing its awareness campaign for this competition. The CMA encourages all citizens and residents of Kuwait to participate by submitting an idea—even a simple one—for a chance to win one of the competition's valuable prizes. The CMA also considers Kuwait's first-place win in the individual writing category of the second edition of the competition an encouraging sign for increased participation and more opportunities for Kuwait to win its prizes.

Details of the competition and participation can be viewed on the dedicated page on the Mulim program website, at the following link: (https://mulimgcc.org ), or through the QR code.

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Notes to Editors:
The Capital Markets Authority was established pursuant to Law No. 7/2010, approved by the Kuwaiti Parliament in February 2010. Pursuant to the Law, the CMA shall regulate and supervise the securities activities, achieve transparency and fairness, observe listed companies’ execution of Corporate Governance regulations, and protect investors from unfair practices which violate the CMA's Law.
Furthermore, the Law's provisions stipulate the supervision of mergers, acquisitions, and disclosure operations. The CMA also aims to provide awareness programs related to securities activities.
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