Personal Finance and the Stock Market Challenge

1. Personal Finance and the Stock Market Challenge August 2012

2. Materials • Financial Fitness for Life (3-5) • Financial Fitness for Life (6-8) • Earning, Learning, and Investing (High School) • Financial Freedom

3. What do we need to teach? • Earning Income • Buying Goods and Services • Saving • Using Credit • Financial Investing • Protecting and Insuring

4. Earning Income • Income for most people is determined by the market value of their labor, paid as wages and salaries. People can increase their income and job opportunities by acquiring more education, work experience, and job skills. The decision to undertake an activity that increases income or job opportunities is affected by the expected benefits and costs of such an activity. Income also is obtained from other sources such as interest, rents, capital gains, dividends and profits.

5. Buying Goods and Services • People cannot buy or make all the goods and services they want; as a result, people choose to buy some goods and services and not buy others. People can improve their economic well-being by making informed decisions, which entails collecting information, planning, and budgeting.

6. Saving • Saving is the part of income that people choose to put away for future consumption. People save for different reasons during the course of their lives. People make different choices about how they save and how much they save. Time, interest rates and inflation affect the value of savings.

7. Using Credit • Credit allows people to purchase goods and services that they can use today and pay for those goods and services in the future with interest. People choose among different credit options that have different costs. Lenders approve or deny applications for loans based on an evaluation of the borrower’s past credit history and expected ability to pay in the future. Higher-risk borrowers are charged higher interest rates; lower risk borrowers are charged lower interest rates.

8. Financial Investing • Financial investment is the purchase of financial assets to increase income or wealth in the future. Investors must choose among investments that have different risks and expected rates of return. Investments with higher expected rates of return tend to have greater risk. Diversification of investment among a number of choices can lower investment risk.

9. Protecting and Insuring • People make choices to protect themselves from the financial risk of lost income, assets, health, or identity. They can choose to accept risk, reduce risk, or transfer the risk to others. Insurance allows people to transfer risk by paying a fee now to avoid the possibility of a larger loss later. The price of insurance is influenced by an individual’s behavior.

10. Stock Market Challenge:Saving and Financial Investing • Saving • Interest • Budgeting • Saving Early • Financial Investing • Types of investments • Risk / Return • Diversification

11. Why Save? • New phone • Car • College education • House • Retirement • Emergencies

12. Short-term, Medium-term, Long-term Goals • Short-term goals can be achieved in fewer than two months. • Medium-term goals may take from two months to three years to achieve. • Long-term goals require three or more years to achieve.

13. What is the Relationship Between Long-term and Short-term Goals? • Breaking long-term goals into short-term goals helps them seem achievable.

14. Opportunity Cost of Saving • Opportunity Cost – the value of the next best alternative you give up to obtain something

15. Budget • Income (what is it per month) • Expenses • Fixed (car payment, WoW payment) • Variable (food, movies, etc.) • Saving (pay yourself first)

16. What can get in your way? • A budget that includes saving is a good way to get to your goals. • But what can happen to a planned budget? • Each month, what can happen that will eat into your savings plan?

17. Teaching About Interest • Principal x interest rate = total interest • P x i = total interest • Total Balance after one year = (1 + i) x P

18. Teaching About Interest Total Balance after n years, simple = (1 + n i) x P Total Balance after n years, compounded = (1 + i)n x P

19. Interest: Simple and Compound

20. Rule of 72 • How long does it take the total amount of savings put into an interest-earning account to double? • Answer: 72 / interest rate • Example: 72 / 8 = 9, so it takes about 9 years for money to double at an interest rate of 8%

21. Rule of 72 works for other things… • If a country’s population is growing at 3% a year, how long will it be before the population has doubled? Quadrupled? • Answer: 72/3 = 24 years • Answer: 48 years (doubled doubled)

22. What impacts total saving? • Amount saved each year • Interest rate • Number of years saved

23. What to double? • $5,000 at 5% for 5 years = $6,381 • Do you double the amount, interest rate or years? • Amount: $12,762 • Interest Rate: $8,053 • Years: $8,144 • (Not generalizable…)

24. Assessment

26. Saving Early / Late • Most important lesson…

27. Save Early / Late

28. Save Early / Late

29. Save Early / Late

30. Closure • What is saving? How do you do it? • What is interest? • What impacts how much you will have in the future? • Amount, time, interest rate • Simple vs. compound

31. Financial Investing • Learning, Earning, and Investing for a New Generation • Attached to Gen I Revolution by CEE • http://www.genirevolution.org/

32. Basics: Investment Instruments • What is a stock? • What is a bond? • What are mutual funds?

33. Fundamental Lesson

34. Risk vs. Return • The dartboard!!!

35. The Pyramid of Risks and Reward Highest Risk--Highest Potential Return or Loss Lowest Risk--Lowest Potential Return or Loss

36. Higher Risk / Higher Earnings Lower Risk / Lower Earnings Penny Stocks, Commondities Speculative Stocks or Bonds Bonds Collectibles Blue Chip Stock Real Estate Growth Mutual Funds Balanced Mutual Funds High-Grade Preferred Stock High-Grade Conv. Bonds Money Market Accounts High-Grade Corporate Bonds High-Grade Municipal Bonds Insured Checking Savings Accounts U.S. Savings Bond Treasury Issues CDs Home-owners Insurance Medical Disability Insurance Liability Insur.ance Auto Insurance Life Insurance

37. Diversification • Why do we diversify?

38. DiversificationExample • Diversification • You are an investor and want to invest $10. • You have a choice of investing in each of the following stocks. The stocks cost $5.

39. DiversificationExample • Stocks: • Bill’s Suntan Products • Brett’s Rain Umbrellas • Andrea’s Hamburgers

40. DiversificationExample • We are going to flip two coins to determine if: • It is rainy (Heads) or sunny (Tails) • If people are hungry (Heads) or not (Tails)

41. Your Stock’s Price Depends On:

42. Choose Your Stocks • With your $10, you can buy stock in either one or two companies. • For example: • You can buy one share of Bill’s Suntan products and one share of Andrea’s hamburgers. • You could also buy two shares of Andrea’s hamburgers. • You could also buy two of Bill’s or two of Brett’s – you get the idea…

43. The Flips • Weather? • Hungry? • How did you do? How much risk did you face?

44. Choices • You could not diversify: • Two shares in one company and had either $10 (50%) or $20 (50%). • You could choose two companies whose risks are not related. • Bill / Andrea or Brett / Andrea means you could have had $10 (25%), $15 (50%), or $20 (25%). • You could try to buy companies whose risks offset each other. • Bill / Brett means no matter what, you had $15.

45. Reality • Investors diversify by choosing: • A larger number of stocks • Stocks in different sectors • Stocks in sectors that might offset risks.

46. Mutual Funds • A mutual fund pools investors’ money. • The fund puts its investors’ money into the markets on their behalf. • In effect, investors own small amounts of many different assets. • Mutual funds enable investors to avoid the risk that comes from owning any one asset. In other words, mutual funds make it easy to diversify.

47. Choices: Depend on Situation

48. Investment Situations • You have $5,000 to invest. No other information is available. • Savings account, CD, Bonds, Stocks, or Real Estate?

49. Investment Situations • You have $4,000 that you’ll need six months from now. • Savings account, CD, Bonds, Stocks, or Real Estate?

50. Investment Situations • You inherited $10,000 from your great-aunt; she has suggested that you save it for use in your old age. • Savings account, CD, Bonds, Stocks, or Real Estate?