Investments and retirement

This course is a part of Personal finance, a 9-course Topic series from Khan Academy.

Stocks, bonds, mutual funds, 401(k)s...learn about different options for investing your money and saving for retirement.

This course contains 4 segments:

Retirement accounts: IRAs and 401ks

To encourage us to save for retirement, the government has created some ways to save that avoid or defer taxes: IRAs and 401ks.

Mutual funds and ETFs

If we're not in the mood to research and pick our own stocks, mutual funds and/or ETFs might be a good option. This tutorial explains what they are and how they are different.

Stocks

Many people own stocks, but, unfortunately, most of them don't really understand what they own. This tutorial will keep you from being one of those people (not keep you from owning stock, but keep you from being ignorant about your investments).

Life insurance

This tutorial walks us through the options to insure our families against our death. The reason why we stuck it in the "investment vehicles" topic is because it can also be an investment that we can use before we die.