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Re: What would you teach in Intro to Personal Finance?
Old 04-18-2007, 10:00 AM   #12
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If your learners are really inexperienced, I'd tune them in to "making saving painless" by discussing automatic payroll deductions, bill pay, electronic transfers, and other means to "set it and forget it."

With my own adult kids, tuning them in to target retirement funds was helpful, too. They don't have time, interest, or desire to learn about the fine points of investing, so at least that gives them an easy out which should do quite well for them.
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