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Growing Your Money: The Fundamentals of Investing
The essentials to understand before investing: risk and return, diversification, compounding and time, and how to spot a scam.
Unit 1
What You Must Know Before Investing
Only the underlying concepts of investing—no specific assets and no buy-or-sell advice.
- 1Risk and ReturnHigh returns always come with high risk; "guaranteed high yields" is a danger sign6 Q
- 2Diversify, Don't Go All InDon't put all your eggs in one basket; diversification lowers single-point risk6 Q
- 3Compounding × Time × the Long Run + Spotting ScamsTime is compounding's friend; meanwhile learn the shared traits of Ponzi schemes, guaranteed-high-yield pitches, and pyramid recruiting6 Q