Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Your Mind and Your Money

Your Mind and Your Money, feature series exploring behavioral finance and its implications for investors produced by Nightly Business Report, in partnership with Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.

Are You Financially Fit?

A brochure and a workbook (in both English and Spanish) created by researchers at Florida State University after a three-year study contrasting the personal finance strategies of households who had similar opportunities to accumulate wealth over their lifetimes but ended up with very different amounts of wealth nearing retirement (released 2010).

Online Personal Finance Game for Middle and High School Student

The Gen i Revolution is a competitive online game developed by the Council for Economic Education to teach personal finance skills to middle and high school students. The "Murktide," a confusion about basic personal finance principles, is rapidly spreading across the population, and middle and high school students are the last line of defense against a lifetime of poor financial decisions. By completing 15 interactive missions, the students are able to help people in financial trouble and beat back the Murktide infestation.