Money That Compounds
Evidence-based investing, plain-English fundamentals, and the biases that cost you.
Free to watch. Starting adds a personal copy to My Learning with progress tracking and a curated-path certificate on completion.
About this path
Finance content online is mostly people selling you something. This path uses two sources that do not: a portfolio manager who cites papers, and an analyst who explains instruments plainly. Add the personal-finance habits that come before any portfolio, the cognitive biases behind most bad money decisions, and just enough statistics to read a performance chart without being fooled by it.
What you'll learn
- Explain what stocks, bonds, and funds actually are
- Judge an investment claim against the evidence behind it
- Set up savings and allocation before you pick anything
- Name the biases behind your own money decisions
- Read a performance chart without being misled by it
The path, module by module
Each step is lifted from a full course in our catalog, and where a course repeats itself we keep only the lessons that earn their place.
Module 1 · from Investing Basics: The Plain Bagel Starter
What the Instruments Actually Are
What the instruments actually are, from an analyst who does not run a course funnel.
8 lessons · 1h 0m
Welcome To The Plain Bagel · The Fundamentals | Why is Investing Important? · Bonds | Using Debt to Invest
Module 2 · from Evidence-Based Investing with Ben Felix
The Evidence Against the Sales Pitch
Ben Felix on the research behind portfolio construction. Every claim is sourced, which is rare in this genre.
8 lessons · 1h 39m
The Problem With Private Credit · Cash is a terrible long-term investment, even at 5% interest · Covered Calls: The Income Illusion
Module 3 · from Personal Finance for Beginners
The Habits Before the Portfolio
Saving, wealth creation, asset allocation, and longevity risk. None of the investing matters if this part is missing.
4 lessons · 24m · hand-picked from 7
Why saving money is important? | Save early, Save better | Personal Finance for beginners Ep - 4 · What is Wealth Creation? How to build wealth? | Personal Finance for Beginners Ep - 5 · What is Asset Allocation? Learn how to do asset allocation | Personal Finance for Beginners Ep - 6
Module 4 · from Fallacies, Biases & Rational Thinking
The Biases That Cost You Money
Anchoring, loss aversion, mental accounting, and the peak-end effect, taught as reasoning errors rather than fun facts.
4 lessons · 19m · hand-picked from 7
CRITICAL THINKING - Cognitive Biases: Anchoring [HD] · CRITICAL THINKING - Cognitive Biases: Reference Dependence and Loss Aversion [HD] · CRITICAL THINKING - Cognitive Biases: Mental Accounting [HD]
Module 5 · from Statistics Fundamentals
Read a Chart Without Being Fooled
Histograms, the normal distribution, and why bar charts and boxplots beat the pie chart in every fund brochure.
4 lessons · 13m · hand-picked from 8
StatQuest: Histograms, Clearly Explained · The Normal Distribution, Clearly Explained!!! · Bar Charts Are Better than Pie Charts