Stock, Bond and Mutual Fund Investing

Explore ethical investing in this brief course that covers essential concepts, risk management, and strategies to grow your wealth responsibly and with confidence.

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Brief Summary

This course is a friendly guide to investing, packed with fun and easy-to-understand info for beginners and pros. In just 40 minutes, you’ll learn about stocks, bonds, and the cool world of ethical investing. Ready to boost your financial future?

Key Points

  • Basics of investing in stocks, bonds, and mutual funds
  • Understanding risk versus return
  • Focus on ethical, social, and environmental investing
  • Historical investment returns from 1801 to 2011
  • Low-cost investment strategies in stocks and bonds

Learning Outcomes

  • Confidently make informed investment choices
  • Understand the concepts of ethical and ESG investing
  • Recognize the historical performance of different investments
  • Explore mutual funds and identify top options
  • Learn strategies to minimize investment costs

About This Course

A quick guide to investing, with a focus on impact/responsible/ethical/social investing.

Discover the Art of Investing: Unveiling Lucrative Opportunities

Unleash the potential of your money by delving into the world of investing! This comprehensive course offers you a concise and informative journey into the realm of financial growth and prosperity. In just 40 minutes, we equip you with the essential knowledge required to make informed investment decisions with confidence.

Catering to both beginners and seasoned investors, this course serves as your trustworthy guide to kickstart your investment journey right away. We demystify the concepts of stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, enabling you to grasp the fundamentals effortlessly.

Understanding the interplay between risk and return is crucial in investing, and our expert instruction ensures you gain a solid grasp of these pivotal concepts. Moreover, we delve into the captivating realm of ethical, social, and environmental investing, providing you with valuable insights on these ever-relevant subjects.

Witness the evolution of investments across history as we present returns generated by various investment types from 1801 to 2011. To empower you further, we reveal ingenious techniques to invest in stocks and bonds at minimal or zero cost.

Join us in unraveling the realm of mutual funds, as we spotlight some of the finest options available in the current marketplace. Our lectures are not merely focused on investing; we also delve into the rationale behind ethical, social, and governance investing (ESG). ESG investing centers on evaluating companies and countries based on their long-term investment progress, integrating three vital metrics: Environmental, Social, and Governance factors.

Embrace the art of investing today and leverage your financial future with confidence!

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Instructor

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William Michael Cunningham

William Michael Cunningham has served as a Capstone student advisor in the Real Estate Program at Georgetown University. A strong advocate for the integration of human values in finance, he involves his students in developing new ways to combine social values and investing. His professional interests focus on environmental, social and governance investing, socially responsible investing and community development investing,...

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ui-avatar of Fatai Ajani Areago
Fatai A. A.
5.0
4 years ago

Wow! You are an amazing man. Loved your course.Should have been an hour.

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ui-avatar of Iris Linares
Iris L.
4.0
6 years ago

This was a good course on a very beginner level. It would be great if there more investing tips for someone starting out. Overall a great place to start.

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ui-avatar of Borislav Todorov
Borislav T.
3.0
6 years ago

The instructor is great however the content is quite limited and a bit too basic.

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ui-avatar of Mark Newsome
Mark N.
5.0
7 years ago

Mr. Cunningham is extremely knowledgeable and he explains this rather sophisticated subject matter, in easy to understand and practical language,in order for a layman to fully grasp.

Having just completed Mr. Cunningham-s course for the very first time, I definitely have a much better grasp of the basic fundamentals.

Especially as they relate to better understanding mutual funds.

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ui-avatar of Hongcheng Chen
Hongcheng C.
5.0
7 years ago

very clear and succinct. This course could really help you understand the most basic and also important concepts about investment. Combining the words with charts, it enables you to relate the knowledge to the real market. highly recommend.

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Antonio
5.0
7 years ago

Very clear

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ui-avatar of Tithi Tadadoltip
Tithi T.
4.5
8 years ago

A great course that touch on the basics of what each main types of investments is. Not to mention, this course provide a place for you to start learning about how to invest yourself.

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ui-avatar of Austin Wu
Austin W.
5.0
8 years ago

For a quick start guide to investing, it covers all the major assets and their respective characteristics. Starting from here, investors can start their own digging and look for profit opportunities

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ui-avatar of Francesca Halbert
Francesca H.
4.0
10 years ago

This is great information for new investors, empowering them to take control of their financial future. The instructor is obviously well-versed in finance issues. His style is relatively engaging. Some topics are covered briefly, but he generally readdresses those in later videos. There are just enough information and resource links to help beginning investors.

The program is a beginner’s guide; much more information would probably overwhelm the new investor. My goal was to gain a basic understanding of the variety of investments available, and this did provide that.

The course would be a great inspirational graduation gift for teens and 20’s, as they begin planning their finances.

The production quality is a little choppy in the transitions between the first few lessons but improves thereafter. (The reason for the 4 of 5 star rating.)

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