Invest Wisely: 52 Steps to a Secure
Future
This web site contains investor education materials prepared
in 2007 and 2008 by an Iowa State University Extension team
headed by Cindy Needles Fletcher and Pat Swanson, extension
families specialists.
The materials include 26 news releases on
a variety of investment topics. These releases were used
as source material for
52 episodes of radio vignettes that
followed a group of friends discussing investment topics. Also
produced were 52
public service announcements promoting the vignettes.
Short descriptions of each episode and links to the news releases,
audio files, and transcripts are provided on the pages listed
below.
Episodes 1-8:
Goals | Saving vs. Investing
| Compounding | Risks/Rewards
Episodes 9-16:
Risk | Diversification | Allocation | Dollar
Cost Averaging
Episodes
17-24:
Stocks | DRIPs | Benchmarks | Bonds | Annuities
Episodes
25-32:
Mutual Funds | Index Funds | ETFs | Alternative Investments
| Recordkeeping
Episodes
33-40:
Capital Gains and Losses | Retirement Plans | IRA Investing
| Goals in Retirement
Episodes
41-48:
Saving for College | Investment Fraud | Financial Advisors
Episodes
49-52:
Investment Web Sites | How to Invest | Risk
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