Investing
What are the goals for learning about investing?
We will learn:
- Important concepts
- Investing = putting money to work to earn
- Growth of investments over time is the great power of investing
- How investments are made
- How investments are followed / tracked over time
- What types of investments can be made
- How to choose investments
Goal:
- Build the mindset of being a share owner - an investor
- Much of wealth building is the mindset
Example:
Cost of an Apple Share | ||
| Elena's Birthday | 27-Mar-10 | $8.25 |
Kian's Birthday | 19-May-13 | $15.82 |
Today | 4-Jan-21 | $3,668.00 |
Investing Vocabulary
capital | money, property, etc., that is used to start or operate a business |
| capital | the money, property, etc., that a person or business owns |
| invest | to use money to earn more money : to use your money to purchase stock in a company, to buy property, etc., in order to make future profit |
| stock | a share of the value of a company which can be bought, sold, or traded as an investment |
| bond | an official document in which a government or company promises to pay back an amount of money that it has borrowed and to pay interest for the borrowed money |
| interest | the money paid by a borrower for the use of borrowed money |
| market | a place where products are bought and sold |
| stock market | a system for buying and selling stocks or a place where stocks are bought and sold |
What is Investing?
Let's learn about it…
What can we invest in? Lego
What can we invest in? Minecraft
Think about this:
According to Forbes, Perrson sold 15 million copies of the game across various consoles before Sept. 2014, when he signed over the game rights to Microsoft for a whopping $2.5 billion dollars. The Minecraft billionaire is still worth $1.9 billion as of November of 2020 (per Forbes).Nov 24, 2020
Let's learn about it…
- Kids explain the stock market - video
- Ted Ed - How does the stock market work?
- Investing for kids - Wall Street Journal - video
- Investing for Kids - video
What can we invest in? Lego
- About Legos: Lego® is a privately-owned, family-controlled business and they aim to keep it that way.
- Invest in Legos by buying and keeping un-opened Lego sets
What can we invest in? Minecraft
Think about this:
According to Forbes, Perrson sold 15 million copies of the game across various consoles before Sept. 2014, when he signed over the game rights to Microsoft for a whopping $2.5 billion dollars. The Minecraft billionaire is still worth $1.9 billion as of November of 2020 (per Forbes).Nov 24, 2020
- Minecraft & Similar Company Stocks
- Invest in Minecraft -1
- Invest in Minecraft - 2
- Invest in Minecraft - Lego
Schwab Investing Education
https://www.schwabmoneywise.com/public/moneywise/teaching_kids/intro_to_investing
