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How to Save Money: Making Smart Financial Decisions | UCBerkeleyX on edX | About Video

2,310 views · Published 18 February 2016 · 2:46 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: edX · 2016 · Education

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Maximize your money by making the right choices in everything from car loans, to credit cards, insurance, stocks, and retirement savings. ↓ More info below. ↓ 

Take this course at edX: https://www.edx.org/course/how-save-money-making-smart-financial-uc-berkeleyx-fin101x

About this course
This course is for people:

-- Who know they need to save, but not how much.
-- Who don’t know whether it would be better to put $100 in an IRA or to pay off $100 of their credit card balance.
-- Who have never read their credit report.
-- Who have both low auto insurance liability coverage and a low deductible.
-- Who don’t know their liability coverage.
-- Who don’t know what liability coverage is.
-- Who would ever consider leasing a car instead of buying.
-- Who own stocks but not mutual funds.
-- Who own mutual funds but not index funds.
-- Who don’t know what index funds are.
-- Who don’t know how much they are paying in mutual fund fees.
-- Who are considering hiring a financial advisor.
-- Who wonder how much savings they will need to retire.

You will learn the basics of personal finance. How to balance spending and saving; which debts to pay first, what insurance you need and don’t need, how to invest for retirement and other long-term goals.  In addition to watching online lectures, students will be shown how to do practical “homework” assignments including looking up the fees on mutual funds and requesting a free credit report.

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