Lesson 17: Investments 6: Mutual Fund Basics, Investments 8: Picking Financial Assets (2013)

NOTE: This is the older version of this lesson. The more up to date video, which features improved audio quality and more recent materials, can be found here: https://youtu.be/35czq5uKECQ This lesson is based off of Chapters 22 & 24 of the text for Finance 418. Professor Bryan Sudweeks of Brigham Young University teaches this lesson. All lesson materials are available online at: http://personalfinance.byu.edu/content/22-investments-6-mutual-fund-basics Objectives: 1. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of Mutual Fund investing 2. Understand the major types of mutual funds 3. Understand how to calculate mutual fund returns 4. Understand the process of how to buy or sell a mutual fund 5. Understand the costs of investing in mutual funds Objectives: 1.  Understand why you should wait to picking stocks (until your assets have grown) 2.  Understand where to find important information on mutual funds and stocks 3.  Understand what makes a good mutual fund 4.  Understand index funds and ETFs

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1. this has been extremely helpful. great teacher