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Investing Simplified

Learn about MOST of the investments products available for you to participate and how to use them to grow your money.

Created byAnna Knight, CFP
BeginnerUpdated Jan 18, 2022

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleunderstanding investment products
  • check_circledeepen your understanding of costs associated with investing
  • check_circlehow to add guaranteed income to your investment portfolio
  • check_circlehow planning is the starting point before product is to be considered
  • check_circlebe able to visualize how all the products fit together

About This Course

In this course, you will learn about MOST of the investment products available for you to participate in, how to purchase them, what are the costs of each option and how all the presented products fit together.

Course Content

1 activity • 12 videos • duration: 1h 42m

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Section 112 videos • 1.7 hours
  • videocamIntro - Investing Simplified Course
    Duration 0:52
  • videocamSection 1 - Course Outline
    Duration 1:23
  • videocamSection 2 - Start With The End in Mind
    Duration 9:08
  • videocamSection 3 - Factors that affect investing
    Duration 8:04
  • videocamSection 4 - Real Rates of Returns
    Duration 11:53
  • videocamSection 5 - Asset Classes Deep Dive
    Duration 6:16
  • videocamSection 5 - Equity or Stocks
    Duration 9:10
  • videocamSection 6 - Commodities
    Duration 3:27
  • videocamSection 7 - Asset Allocation
    Duration 11:47
  • videocamSection 8 - Ways to Purchase Asset Classes
    Duration 23:46
  • videocamSection 9 - Products with Guarantees
    Duration 11:11
  • videocamSection 10 Putting it all Together
    Duration 5:20

Your Instructor

Anna Knight, CFP

Speaker ■ Coach ■ Writer ■ Business Owner ■ Financial Planner ■ Creator of Prosperity Retreats

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Anna Knight is the Founder, Severance and Pension Specialist and Certified Financial Planner at Simplicity Financial (www.simplicityfinancial.ca).   She started Simplicity Financial with over 20 years of industry experience to empower Canadians to take charge of and have pride in their finances. She is a trusted source of financial advice to her clients and key associates and strives to be the same for the community at large.   To learn more, please visit www.simplicityfinancial.ca     To elevate her impact and reach, Anna delivers her money management and wealth-building courses to corporations and a number of organizations online through her carefully curated courses. She also shared her valuable and time-tested wealth-building strategies in her latest book "The Million Dollar Difference" and collaborated with her colleague to create a 30-day financial healing journal, "My Financial Wellness Journal." In her well-established private practice, Anna offers fee-for-service financial planning guidance or gets retained by her clients to manage their financial affairs.    ​To implement the simple yet powerful financial plan, Anna has partnered with some industry leaders. ​To provide investment management advice, Anna is a Financial Advisor with Desjardins Financial Independent Network.  If her plans call for alterations or adding new life insurance solutions, Anna works as an Insurance Broker with Desjardins Financial Independent Network.    ​Before setting up her own independent practice, Anna worked for ICM, another independent MFDA dealer for several years, and Royal Bank of Canada, National Bank and Manulife Financial before that. She has not only extensive education in her field but also years of hands-on experience. ​As a wellness and fitness enthusiast, world explorer and dancer and mom, Anna ensures to keep on creating a work-life balance and encourages her clients to do the same. 

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.4 out of 5
Student's Choice
436 reviews
  • JW
    Joanna W.
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    very informative

  • LM
    Lin M.
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    Informative. Covers general investing ideas.

  • BL
    Blair L.
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    Excellent overview of the investing landscape!

  • GM
    Graham M.
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    Great fundamental step-by step guide to get started.

Frequently Asked Questions

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