Jump Start Your Future: Exploring Savings and Investment for Young People

This program explores many of the key advantages associated with investing early in life. Concepts examined include: the power of compound interest, the Rule of 72, risk versus reward, dollar-cost averaging, mutual funds, equities, and government incentive programs such as Registered Educations Savings Plans, Canada Education Savings Grants, and Registered Retirement Savings Plans.

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1. This looks appropriate for Planning 10 "personal finance." Talking heads are not as engaging as the "Savings Strategies," of Willis & Ringo (etc.), that I would like to find, VHS video (district media closed!) The concepts are the same and all here. High school 15 year old students learn using spreadsheet as calculator > do a budget (income - expenses = savings) by hand then using spreadsheet a journal of expenses sheet & then Income-Expenses sheet using click-method for cell references > then THESE "savings strategies" along with "Life Stages" adjustments for your balanced investment portfolio pie (of equities; bonds debt instruments; cash instruments (term deposits, GICs, CSBs).