Investing Fundamentals

Learn about investing and financial planning. Increase your returns and gain confidence in your investment activities.

1. Are you interested in increasing your investment returns with minimal effort?
2. Are you interested in paying lower fees and keeping more of your money?
3. Are you willing to invest a small sum to learn important investing fundamentals that will help you to fulfill your financial and lifestyle goals?
If you answered "yes" to at least one of these questions then this course is for you!

Investing for the sake of investing simply won't cut it. Improving the odds of lifestyle and retirement success demand that you take ownership of your financial matters. As a result, financial success doesn't start with an advisor… it starts with you. Along the way you probably wanted to learn about investing, but you weren't sure where to start, what to read or who to trust.

Investing Fundamentals addresses the appetite that many people have for learning about personal finance with a focus on investing. Course content is kept simple and neatly arranged so that you get a comprehensive understanding of financial and investment concepts.

As you work toward building a sound portfolio, you'll implement an asset allocation strategy inline with your investor profile. For example, a conservative or an aggressive portfolio. Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to:
- Understand fundamental concepts including: stocks, bonds and funds
- Understand your portfolio and if your current asset allocation makes sense
- Learn how to build a portfolio of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds
- Understand all investment related fees and which fees to avoid
- Make intelligent portfolio decisions leading to increased returns and wealth
- Learn the steps to becoming a DIY investor (so that you can fire your advisor)
- Plus many other course goals as stated

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What are the requirements?
•A willingness to take control of your financial and lifestyle goals
•No prior knowledge or investment experience required
•No materials required

What am I going to get from this course?
•Over 21 lectures and 3 hours of content!
•Learn about stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, portfolio management and other investment concepts
•Increase portfolio returns by making sensible strategy and asset allocation decisions
•Learn about DIY investing and spend eight hours a year or less managing your portfolio
•Keep more of your money, dramatically reduce investment fees and weed out hidden fees
•Become empowered, knowledgeable and confident about investing
•Spend less time confused; increase your peace of mind and lifestyle possibilities

What is the target audience?
•Individuals at any knowledge level who desire to learn about personal finacne, investing and DIY investing
•This course is NOT geared toward individuals seeking to day trade stocks, options or other securities
•This course is NOT about some BS or fairytale trading system that will supposedly make you rich