Online Personal Finance Learning

True Potential PUFin’s trilogy of free, online personal finance modules is designed to give adults the knowledge and tools they need to make better financial decisions, in bite-size chunks of learning. Between May 2014 and May 2016, a total of 53,770 people registered for Managing My Money, the first course in the trilogy, which gives people the foundations for good personal finance management. This paper looks in detail at Managing My Money: what the course covers, who has taken the course, and what impact the course has had

A Primer for Investing in Bonds

Guide to bond investment from the Texas State Securities Board

Financial literacy education in the United States: Exploring popular personal finance literature

As libraries work to define their roles within the global financial literacy education movement, it will serve them well to understand the popular literary component to this movement: the personal finance self-help genre. In this literature study, the author read 12 of the most popular books of this genre, as determined by simulations of likely Google searches, and conveys herein some of the beliefs and strategies these books may have imparted to library patrons. This study will benefit librarians by enhancing their understanding of the personal finance genre, conveying the genre’s interrelation to the current financial literacy movement, and even prompting librarians to question their own understanding regarding certain financial literacy components.Publisher does not allow open access until after publicatio