Investing 101 - Introduction

We are planning to start a series of classes on investing for about 10 weeks, once a week, every sunday at 10:30 AM - 12:30 AM.

This Sunday, Feb 4th, my friends and I got together and chalked up a plan for the next 10 weeks or so.

These are the topics we are going to discuss, a few presenters have signed up, so look out for their names.

1. 401 K - Srikant - Feb 18th, (We need one more person for this) for about 2 weeks.
• Company Match 401K.
• Penalty.
• Going back to India
• How much %
• Kind of investments.
• Balancing with Current expenditure.
• Loans on 401 K.
• Is it really worth it?
• How can you convert to IRA ?
• How can I invest 401 K money on my own?
• 401 Transfer.
• Age Factors.
  
2. Roth IRA. (Pradnya) - 1 week
   
• What is it?
• How to pick the investment firm?
• Can you do it on your own?
• Tax benefits.
  
  
3. Life Style (Ramya) - 1 week
   
• Latte factor
• Environment
• Part Time work
• Pregnancy, Kids
  
• Health
• Shopping, deals.
4. Real Estate - Home buying (Bharath) - 1 week
   
5. Bonds, Mutual Funds - 1 week (*)
   
6. Stocks - 2 weeks (Kamal, upto 2 more people can talk here.)
   
• What is it?
• Technical terms
• Large, Mid, Small caps.
• etc.
  
7. Investing in India (Sujan, Anyone else?) - 1 week
8. Real estate investing - other than home - 1 week
   
9. Misc 1 - 1 week. (*)
   
• Savings
• Cash in hand
• Tranfers to India.
• Employer benefits
• HSA
• Tax.
  
• etc.
  
10. Misc 2 - 1 week (*)
    
• US Dollar
• Liabilities, Assets
• Business.

For everyone, who is going to join the class, please pick a topic you can are comfortable with presenting and let me know.

Looking forward to writing more Investing 101 posts as the weeks progress. Stay tuned !