Lessons
- Where your money goes: needs, wants and saving Lesson 1, 6 minutes
- What you own when you own an ETF Lesson 2, 6 minutes
- Cash or invested: what each paid this year Lesson 3, 6 minutes
- What a fee really costs you over 30 years Lesson 4, 6 minutes
- Taxes in plain words: dividends, interest and gains Lesson 5, 7 minutes
- Starting small: how $100 a month grows Lesson 6, 6 minutes
- Your first fund check: read a fund page in 5 minutes Lesson 7, 7 minutes
Your progress
Finish all 7 lessons and get 2 of 3 right on each quiz to earn the course certificate.0 of 7 lessons passed on this device.
What you learn
- How to split pay into needs, wants and saving, and what a year of saving earned in a cash ETF
- What an ETF is: a basket in one share, and how a holding's weight becomes dollars
- How a cash ETF and a stock ETF differ over a year and over a month, and why the date you need the money matters
- How a small yearly fee compounds into a large gap in what you end up with
- How a fund's payouts split into dividends, interest, capital gains and return of capital, and how each is taxed
- How a small monthly amount compounds over decades, and why time matters more than the size of the deposit
- Five questions to ask of any ETF: holdings, cost, return against its benchmark, deepest drop and promise kept