The SECP and the Central Depository Company have been jointly holding road shows for investor awareness and education. The purpose is to attract savings to the capital market from retail investors and businessmen in smaller cities and to educate the potential investors about the working of the stock markets. These road shows have also helped in removing misconceptions about stock market investments and have provided a forum to fund managers, brokerage houses and financial institutions to reach investors in smaller cities of Pakistan. So far, road shows have been conducted in five cities namely, Sialkot, Peshawar, Hyderabad, Quetta and Multan. The next road show is scheduled to be in Sukkur on 7 January 2006