Paths to a Financial Education

Fergus Hodgson, January 16, 2018

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So many of us are on the outside of the financial industry, and its jargon, mathematics, and regulations may seem beyond reach. Bill Reese, a finance professor with the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, weighs the merits of trade experience versus formal education options, and then offers recommendations for personal-finance reading.

He asserts that both practical and formal experience are useful and complementary, and he takes a more positive view of investment in education and even the rise of student-loan debt: “Statistics will tell you that the best investment anyone can ever make is an investment in [himself].”

Bill Reese has been a full-time finance professor at Tulane University for more than 20 years, and prior to his PhD, he worked for a decade in banking and insurance. (Freeman School)

Recommended Links

• US Student-Loan Default Rates by Institution Type.
• Episode 10: “Doug Casey: How Fiction Can Change the World.”
• Tulane Master of Finance.
• FINE 6020 Financial Management.
• The Intelligent Investor (1949) by Benjamin Graham.
• Investing in One Lesson (2007) by Mark Skousen (my review).

Fergus Hodgson is Gold Newsletter’s roving editor. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.