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Shares
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Why do interest rates change?
What you'll learn:
- Impact of economic outlook
- World economy and rates
- Interest rates under review
What can shares bring to my portfolio?
What you'll learn:
- How shares can make money
- Historical price performance
- Capital growth and dividends
How can cash work in my portfolio?
What you'll learn:
- Cash and debt investments
- Advantages of cash
- Defensive and growth
What can bonds bring to my portfolio?
What you'll learn:
- Fixed interest payments
- The value of fixed interest
- Trading fixed interest
What are the risks of investing in shares?
What you'll learn:
- The risks of investing in shares
- Key questions to ask yourself
- How to cope with risk
What are the risks of investing in bonds?
What you'll learn:
- The biggest risk
- Types of risk
- What to look out for
What impacts share prices?
What you'll learn:
- What share prices show
- Internal impacts on share prices
- External impacts on share prices
How do corporate bonds work?
What you'll learn:
- What are corporate bonds?
- Who issues them?
- How interest is paid
What are the risks of conservative investing?
What you'll learn:
- Conservative investments
- What are the risks?
- Benefits of growth investments
What is shareholder return?
What you'll learn:
- Calculating shareholder return
- What shareholder return tells you
- How it helps
How do interest rate changes affect me?
What you'll learn:
- Rate rises and cash
- Rates and other investments
- Interest rates and the AUD
What are government bonds?
What you'll learn:
- How government bonds work
- Types of government bonds
- Risks of investing
Why do interest rates change?
What you'll learn:
- Impact of economic outlook
- World economy and rates
- Interest rates under review
How do interest rates affect bond prices?
What you'll learn:
- Who controls interest rates
- The impact or rising rates
- The impact of falling rates
What are stock market sectors?
What you'll learn:
- How the ASX uses sectors
- Sector characteristics
- Sector based strategies
What are the ways to invest in shares?
What you'll learn:
- Direct and indirect purchasing
- Investment funds
- How to buy shares yourself
What are income versus growth shares?
What you'll learn:
- How can I benefit?
- What are income stocks?
- What are growth stocks?
How to understand bond jargon
What you'll learn:
- Key terms
- Principal, maturity and coupons
- How to calculate yields
What are large, mid and small cap shares?
What you'll learn:
- How are shares sized?
- What is market capitalisation?
- Large, mid and small cap shares
What are the different types of corporate bonds?
What you'll learn:
- How corporate bonds vary
- Secured versus unsecured
- Bond credit ratings
How do I buy corporate bonds?
What you'll learn:
- Primary or secondary market
- Bonds on a stock exchange
- What to consider before buying
What investments are right for me?
What you'll learn:
- Cautious investments
- Aggressive investments
- What to consider
How do I buy international shares?
What you'll learn:
- Benefits of international shares
- How to invest
- What are the risks?
How can I use good debt?
What you'll learn:
- How to use gearing
- What is negative gearing?
- Debt buster tips
How do I use ETFs in an investment portfolio?
What you'll learn:
- How to build ETF portfolios
- What assets you can access
- How to get started
What happens when the $AU goes up or down?
What you'll learn:
- What is the forex market?
- When the $A depreciates
- When the $A appreciates
What are the costs of investing in ETFs?
What you'll learn:
- Management fees
- Other costs
- ETF's vs. managed funds
How is trading different from investing?
What you'll learn:
- The prinicples of investing
- The principles of trading
- The risks of both approaches
What is share analysis?
What you'll learn:
- What is fundamental analysis?
- What is technical analysis?
- How can they help?
What do I need to know before buying shares?
What you'll learn:
- Understanding a company
- Key factors to consider
- Assessing future potential
How do I understand share price tables?
What you'll learn:
- How to read a share table
- What key terms mean
- Bid and offer price
How do I invest in small caps?
What you'll learn:
- What are small caps?
- How to invest
- Benefits and risks
What is an IPO?
What you'll learn:
- What is an IPO?
- How to invest
- What are the risks?
What are cyclical versus defensive shares?
What you'll learn:
- What are cyclical shares?
- What are defensive shares?
- Interest sensitive shares
What is top down versus bottom up investing?
What you'll learn:
- What is top-down investing?
- What is bottom-up investing?
- How these methods work
How do I buy shares?
What you'll learn:
- What are market orders?
- What are limit orders?
- The benefits of each
What is dividend yield?
What you'll learn:
- How to calculate dividend yields
- What they show
- What makes them move
What is earnings per share (EPS)?
What you'll learn:
- What is EPS?
- Why it is important?
- What are the limitations of EPS?
What is price to earnings (P/E) ratio?
What you'll learn:
- What is a P/E ratio?
- How can you use it?
- What are the limitations?
How do I use technical share analysis?
What you'll learn:
- Types of technical analysis
- How to read share price charts
- Support and resistance
What are preference shares?
What you'll learn:
- How preference shares work
- How to buy them
- How to sell them
How do I teach my kids about money?
What you'll learn:
- Budgeting for kids
- Investing skills
- Compound interest
How do I get the right mix of shares?
What you'll learn:
- How shares differ
- What are your options?
- Ways to reduce risk
Why are some ETFs riskier than others?
What you'll learn:
- What are synthetic ETFs?
- What are the specific risks?
- What to look out for
What is currency hedging?
What you'll learn:
- What is currency risk?
- What investments are affected?
- How hedging works
What is distribution yield?
What you'll learn:
- What are distributions
- How to access distributions
- How to calculate yield
What are blue chip shares?
What you'll learn:
- Features
- S&P ASX 200 Index
- How to buy blue chips
How to use company financials
What you'll learn:
- Cash flow
- Book value
- Debt metrics
What does it mean to be a shareholder?
What you'll learn:
- How shareholders make money
- What are ordinary shares?
- The rights of shareholders
Which of the four types of SMSF investors are you?
What you'll learn:
- The various types of SMSF owners
- The different needs of investors
- How confident SMSF investors are
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