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US Curriculum

Investment Basics

Jul 25, 2025, 03:00
The environment of investing is rapidly changing. Having a solid understanding of investing is essential for avoiding costly mistakes and long-term issues. This course serves as an opportunity to efficiently build the simple investment framework required
Title : Investment Basics
Course Code : INVEST
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Designation : GBA
Topic : Retirement
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The environment of investing is rapidly changing. Having a solid understanding of investing is essential for avoiding costly mistakes and long-term issues. This course serves as an opportunity to efficiently build the simple investment framework required to help better understand and follow best practices and suitable investment structures. The content of this course will be beneficial for various backgrounds and levels of experience to revisit the basic investment framework with the goal of creating a better investment experience for participants and those they interact with. Gather with your peers and experts for two days of investment learning and networking to learn what is working and how others find success, giving you takeaways to implement at your own organization.
  • Investment overview
  • Investing within the employee benefit and retirement plans environment
  • Basics of investing
  • Understanding and assessing risk
  • Measures of return
  • Investment characteristics
  • Time value of money basics
  • Basics of cash and cash equivalents
  • Basics of bond investing
  • Basics of stock investing
  • Alternative investments
  • Basics of mutual fund investing
  • Commonsense investment principles
  • Sources of investing information
  • Portfolio management and asset allocation
  • Investment policy considerations
  • Tax aspects of retirement plan investment
  • Case study
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Canadian Curriculum

Investment Basics

Jul 25, 2025, 03:00
The environment of investing is rapidly changing. Having a solid understanding of investing is essential for avoiding costly mistakes and long-term issues. This course serves as an opportunity to efficiently build the simple investment framework required
Title : Investment Basics
Course Code : INVEST
Subtitle :
ExternalPK : INVEST
Bypass URL :
Button URL : https://www.ifebp.org/education/certificateprograms/certificateseries/Pages/investment-basics.aspx
Button Label :
Accordion 1 Label :
Accordion 2 Label :
Accordion 3 Label :
Price for Content Box One :
Price for Content Box Two :
Price for Content Box Three :
Price for Content Box Four :
Price for Content Box Five :
Country : US
Required To Earn :
Designation : GBA
Topic : Retirement
Sort Order :
The environment of investing is rapidly changing. Having a solid understanding of investing is essential for avoiding costly mistakes and long-term issues. This course serves as an opportunity to efficiently build the simple investment framework required to help better understand and follow best practices and suitable investment structures. The content of this course will be beneficial for various backgrounds and levels of experience to revisit the basic investment framework with the goal of creating a better investment experience for participants and those they interact with. Gather with your peers and experts for two days of investment learning and networking to learn what is working and how others find success, giving you takeaways to implement at your own organization.
  • Investment overview
  • Investing within the employee benefit and retirement plans environment
  • Basics of investing
  • Understanding and assessing risk
  • Measures of return
  • Investment characteristics
  • Time value of money basics
  • Basics of cash and cash equivalents
  • Basics of bond investing
  • Basics of stock investing
  • Alternative investments
  • Basics of mutual fund investing
  • Commonsense investment principles
  • Sources of investing information
  • Portfolio management and asset allocation
  • Investment policy considerations
  • Tax aspects of retirement plan investment
  • Case study
Categories :
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