Social Investing Class Launched on Udemy

WASHINGTON - April 9, 2015 - PRLog -- Designed for both beginners and those with experience, the CIR Stock, Bond and Mutual Fund Investing Class consists of 14 lectures. We quickly and completely cover what you need to know about investing in 40 minutes!

If you want honest, objective information you can use to begin investing, or if you want basic information about investing, this is your course. It's geared to people who want to start investing now.

We define what stocks, bonds and mutual funds are. In addition, we cover risk and return, two key investing concepts.

We cover ethical/social/environmental investing, providing expert-level instruction on these topics.

We show returns generated by various types of investments from 1801 to 2011.

We show you how to use various techniques to invest in stocks and bonds at low or no cost.

Finally, we describe some of the best mutual funds in the marketplace.

Our lecture provides the rationale for both investing and for social investing. See https://youtu.be/ImgORmdCCkg



We cover the following topics:
What is Investing?
What is Ethical/SRI/ESG/CSR Investing?
Why Invest?
Risk and Reward: the problem with banks, brokers, mutual funds & what to do
What Is a Stock?
What Is a Bond?
What Is a Mutual Fund?
What is a return?
What is screening? exclusion? shareholder activism? positive investing?

Sign up at: https://www.udemy.com/stock-bond-mutualfund-investing/

We have also launched an online class on crowdfunding. Here is the link to sign up: https://www.udemy.com/how-to-crowdfund/