What started as a dream is today a reality.

Yes, that’s how journey of Investor Education & welfare Association (IEWA) started in 1992...with a dream to Educate and Empower Investors. And, today after over 24 years we can proudly say that we have come a long way.

Today we empower investors in various ways...via our website, our newsletter, on ground events and investor melas...touching thousands across the country every year.

When it started, the committee members deliberated over the emerging scenario and read the writing on the wall, the dangers that lay ahead for lay investors. They conceptualized their thoughts into a motto - INVESTOR PROTECTION THROUGH EDUCATION - and gave birth to Ghatkopar Investor & Welfare Association at a glittering function on 10th May, 1992 under the leadership of Shri Navnit Bhatia. To serve at pan india level and to spread the motto of investor empowerment. The name was change to Investor Education & welfare Association (IEWA).

The main thrust of the Association is to educate the layman about the principles of safe investment, the complexity of capital market, changing rules of market operations. The idea is to make lay investor an informed investor so as to avoid duping by unscrupulous elements and on the other hand to control one’s emotions of fear, greed and hope.

In pursuit of its motto the Association came out with its Charter and got it registered under the Societies Act on 6th September, 1993. Thus began the journey of a non-political and not profit making social organization served by a dedicated team of professionals under the mentorship of Shri Navnit Bhatia (President emeritus) and President Shri Bhavesh Vora. Today we are registered with ‘Securities and Exchange Board of India’ & ‘Bombay Stock Exchange Investor Protection Fund’.

But we are not done yet. Far from it. In fact we feel we are just starting…

To strengthen the activities and reach to larger number of people we have acquired office on lease, thereby to reach at pan India level through technology and also to spread knowledge about various securities products which is now under the ambit of SEBI