Starting your financial journey as a young professional can feel overwhelming, but making informed decisions early on can lead to long-term success. This four-part series will provide practical guidance on budgeting, investing, and essential financial planning topics to help you navigate your future with confidence.

Session 2: Investing Basics

• How to start investing
• Understanding the power of compound interest
• Basic stocks, bonds, mutual funds, index funds
• Company benefit plans such as 401(k)s and individual retirement plans such as IRAs
• Investment Research Tools: ValueLine, Morningstar, Bloomberg, etc.
   

Julie Jason, JD, LLM, developed her views on financial services over a lifelong career in law and management, starting out on Wall Street as a lawyer after earning her LLM from Columbia University. More than twenty-five years ago, Jason founded her own Investment Counsel firm—Jackson, Grant, Investment Advisers, Inc. of Stamford, CT, a fiduciary boutique—where her team manages personal portfolios for high net worth families. A proponent of financial literacy, Ms. Jason writes for a broad audience of every financial means. Her award-winning weekly investor education column, which celebrated a 1,000 column milestone in 2017, is syndicated by Andrews McMeel and is published locally in the Greenwich Time each Sunday and in a number of other Hearst newspapers.

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Siobhan Schugmann
sschugmann@greenwichlibrary.org