Free online courseInvesting Basics: Stocks, Bonds, ETFs, Risk and Taxes

Course Description

Investing Basics: Stocks, Bonds, ETFs, Risk and Taxes is a free online course designed to help you understand how investing works and how to start with confidence. If you are new to investing or want a clearer framework for making decisions, this course explains the core concepts in a practical, beginner-friendly way.

You will learn why investing matters, how different asset types can grow wealth, and what role bonds, stocks, and cash equivalents play in a portfolio. It also clarifies managed investment solutions such as mutual funds and ETFs, so you can understand diversification, index tracking, and how these tools are commonly used by long-term investors.

The course explores investing styles, including active and passive approaches, and highlights the impact of fees on performance over time. You will also get an accessible introduction to taxes and registered accounts, helping you recognize how account structure can influence after-tax returns.

To support better real-world decision-making, it covers risk and investment uncertainty, plus behavioral finance topics that explain how emotions and common biases can affect investors. The course finishes by bringing ideas together into a clear path for getting started, making it a strong foundation for anyone exploring the investments side of Business and Marketing.