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Mindleaders
MindLeaders interactive e-Learning allows you to take courses anytime, anywhere. Over 2,000 training courses offered, which feature quality content, interaction, graphics and quizzes, making learning interesting and effective. Here's a small sampling of online financial planning and investing courses:
- Budgeting and Saving
This series of 7 courses covers basic bugeting and banking up to retirement planning.
- Estate Planning
Estate planning is a set of 9 courses that covers all apsects of asset and estate management.
- Retirement Planning
This 2 course series offers advice on saving and budgeting for retirement.
- Investing Fundamentals
Learn how to invest in a wide range of products from Bonds to Mutual funds in this 6 part online course.
Mindleaders training courses feature skill assessment, questions, simulations, exercises and sample files. Certificates of completion and CEU's available. To see what makes MindLeaders courses empowering, engaging and effective -- try one of the free courses offered.
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Become a Tax Expert
The Banneker Center has created this free online course and promises that you will be able to talk back to ridiculous tax pundits who jabber on TV news shows; embarrass your enemies by pointing out their confusions about what taxes are best or worst; help your friends to see what makes some taxes wise, some foolish, and some just plain dangerous. Just register for free and you're on your way to being a tax expert.
Bloomberg University Online Investment Classes
Bloomberg University offers online investing courses which are instructor-led and taught by respected names in the financial industry. And all courses are completely free. Current titles include:
- Investing 101
- 401(k) Basics
- Tom Dorsey's Trading Tips
Fool's School - Investing Basics
Learn to invest at Fool's School with these online investing courses: Investing Concepts, Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds, Analyzing Stocks, Picking a Broker and the Keys to Success. And for teens and college students there's FoolU.com.
GE Center for Financial Learning
Online courses in personal financial planning are offered by the GE Center for Financial Learning. The courses are free and include the following titles:
- Financial Planning for Singles
- Financial Planning for Families with Children
- Financial Planning for Retirees
- Introduction to Life Insurance
- Life Insurance Beyond the Basics
- Introduction to Investing
- Introduction to Mutual Funds
You'll also find financial planning guides for different stages of your life: buying a home, buying an automobile, saving for education, taxes, retirement planning and estate planning.
Hoover's Beginner's Guide to IPOs
At Hoovers.com's IPO Central you'll find an online tutorial called the Beginner's Guide to IPOs. Learn how to speak the language, understand the process, what to look for in a prospectus and, of course, how to play the IPO game!
Investopedia
Investopedia offers a large collection of free online investing tutorials, as well as other helpful learning resources such as the Term of the Week, investing guides and articles, and a free weekly educational newsletter. Tutorial topics include:
- Market Index Basics
- Retirement Planning
- Stock Basics
- Buying on Margin
- Technical Analysis
MSN - Prepare to Invest Step by Step
Learn investing at MSN's Money Central: includes step by step guides to help you learn the basics of investing. You'll start by assessing your financial situation and then take a series of online quizzes to test your knowledge and nerve. Once you've determined your 'investment temperament' it's time to learn the basics of building a portfolio, designing your investment model and investing in stocks and bonds.
Morningstar University
There's a lot to learn at Morningstar.com University. You'll find investing primers, video reports, featured guest articles, an "Ask the Professor" section, as well as a collection of online stock and mutual fund courses in the Investing Classroom. Here's a sampling of titles:
- What a Mutual Fund Is
- How to Purchase a Fund
- What is the Purpose of a Company?
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average
- Understanding the S & P 500
National Association of Online Investors (NAOI)
NAOI offers the self-paced online "Investing Study Course" consisting of 24 online lessons covering over 300 investing topics including investing basics, investment planning and how to identify and locate Web-based resources that enable students to transform this knowledge into action. Each lesson has a related online test and students completing all lessons, approximately 500 questions, are awarded a certification diploma. The purpose of the NAOI Investing Study Course is to provide individuals of all experience levels with knowledge that will enable them to make educated investing decisions and take control of their portfolios. The course is approved at the college level for Continuing Education Units.
Online Trading Academy
Online Trading Academy offers a wide range of home and online training materials and seminars for professional and day traders. These courses are delivered in a variety of formats, including interactive CD-ROM, audio CD or cassette, workbooks and videos. The in-depth CD courses allow you to learn at your own pace and to repeat material when necessary, so that your trading education can advance on a daily basis.
Optionetics Education Center
At the Optionetics Education Center you can learn all about options trading. Start with the basics and learn how options work, how to use options, and other basic concepts. Then move on to Advanced Options Concepts; Options Strategies; and check out the library of educational articles.
RBC Dominion Securities Investor Education Centre
Another education site for Canadians, online tutorials in investing and financial management:
- Principles of Equity Investing
- Fundamentals of the Bond Market
- Guide to RSPs
- RSP Maturity Options
Savvy Investing - Start Money Working For You
(Introduction To Successful Investing For The Rest Of Your Life)
This is an eight lesson "self study" course that comes to you by e-mail. The course takes you from a standing start and with very little time, trouble, or trial-by-error gradually transforms you into a savvy investor. You'll learn right away how to start building an investment nest egg, where to put your money for maximum return with minimum risk, and - by the end of the course - how to take advantage of the sophisticated investment strategies and tactics that most investors don't understand, or are reluctant to try, but that have made thousands of investors just like you into millionaires!
Schwab Learning Center
Schwab.com offers online investing education. Free courses are self-paced and available titles include:
- Investing Fundamentals
- Developing Your Asset Allocation Plan
- How to Place A Mutual Fund Order
- Tax Smart Investing
- Investing for Retirement
Also at the site you'll find an investment basics section, planning tools and a glossary of investing terms.
SmartMoney University
Online investing courses at SmartMoney University help you take control of your financial life. Investing and financial management topics include:
- Investing 101
- Taking Action
- Strategic Investing
- Retirement/401K
- College Planning
- Short Term Investing
- Debt Management
These online courses in financial education are offered at no charge and suitable for the beginner as well as sophisticated investors. Great site!
Teach Me Finance
TeachMeFinance.com teaches you the basic finance concepts including the Time Value of Money, Kinds of Interest Rates, Annuities, Perpetuities, Bond Valuation and Stock Valuation.
The Basics of Mutual Fund Investing
The Mutual Fund Investor's Center provides an Education Center with online lessons in the basics of mutual fund investing, types of mutual funds, taxes and women and investing.
The Basics at TheStreet.com
Try these online lessons and primers for money management and investing:
- Guide to Bonds Online
- Guide to Extended Trading Hours
- A Primer on Buying Insurance
- Taxes for Traders - What You Need to Know
- An Options Education
- Stocks Class: Stocks from the Bottom Up
- How to Get Started at Mutual Fund Investing
Vanguard University
Learn the basics of investing with these free online lessons:
- An Investment Primer
- Introduction to Mutual Funds
- Introduction to Index Investing
- The Basics of Asset Allocation
- Your Core Investment Options
- Measuring Mutual Fund Performance
- Taxes and Mutual Funds
- Retirement Planning Basics
- Types of Retirement Savings Plans
Money Tools
Financenter
Personal finance tools at just a click - calculators for home, auto, credit cards, investing, budgeting, insurance, saving and retirement.
Research Tools
All sorts of online research tools from Smallcapcenter.com:
- Company Search
- Most Active Stocks
- Financial Search
- Article Search
- Inside Traders Search
- Recommendations Search
- Technical Search
- Stock Holdings Search
The Full Universal Currency Converter
Allows you to perform interactive foreign exchange rate conversion for 180 currencies in over 250 geographical locations.
Bankrate.com
Get rates from 4,000 banking institutions across the U.S. All sorts of online tools to calculate current banking rates and your payments for auto, mortgage, credit card and savings loans.
Investment Challenges and Stock Games
Required Reading
Your Homework Assignment!
Five Steps to Financial Freedom
With the Armchair Millionaire's Five Steps to Financial Freedom and you can build a million dollar portfolio -- and you don't have to be a rocket scientist or budget your social life away to do it! To help you get there, simply use this interactive, fully customized Five Steps tool to enter some information about your savings and income, and it will tell you exactly what to do to reach your million dollar goal. Along the way, it will explain the sound financial principles that make the Five Steps such a powerful plan.
Personal Development
