Chart of the Week: Why Investment Fees Matter! - Blog
From Vanguard: May want to find a way to cover up the ending balances after 30 years. Question: Two investors start with $100,000 and earn a 6% return per year for 30 years: One chooses a low-cost mutual fund with a cost of 0.25% (a.k.a. expense ratio) that is applied to their invested assets each year. Note that many index funds have even LOWER expense ratios). The other chooses a higher-cost mutual fund of 0.63%, which is apparently the weighted average expense ratio for U.S. mutual funds.
Madoff Case: (Dis)Trust and Investments - Lesson Plan from KWHS
In this lesson, students will be introduced to the Madoff Ponzi scheme. They will think about what Bernie Madoff did and how very experienced investors were tricked by him. Then we will return to the rational decision-making process and the four variables used to make investments to consider how investors can protect themselves against risk.
Chart of the Week: Who's Buying Homes These Days? - Blog
From WSJ: This chart measures the percentage of home buyers by age from 2006-2018 and demonstrates the seismic impact left by the Great Recession. Questions: Do you hope to own a house someday? When do you hope to be able to buy it? What would be a good headline to summarize the data in the chart? In what year does there appear to be the most dramatic change in the data?
Career advice: The personality traits employers seek in job interviews
The next time you go for a job interview, you should spend time brushing up your personality, not just your skill set, a new study from TopInterview and Resume-Library has found.
Dave Ramsey tells students: go to school where you can afford
When it comes to picking a college, Dave Ramsey says too many students and their families are more focused on attending that all-important "dream school," than seriously considering what student loan debt will do to their lives 20 or 30 years down the line. And that has to change, he says.
Mapped: How Much Student Debt Does Each State Hold?
Crippling student debt in the U.S. has reached a record high of $1.5 trillion nationwide. Today’s map breaks down which states bear the highest burden.
Hindsight Is 20/20 According to Fidelity Study: 42% of Americans Would Have Started Saving for College Earlier if They Knew Then What They Know Now | Business Wire
(5) When money isn’t real: the $10,000 experiment | Adam Carroll | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool - YouTube
Adam Carroll talks about his $10,000 Monopoly game with his kids and how to teach finance management in a cashless society. Adam Carroll is quickly being rec...
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