Entrepreneur Now Teaching 12 Year Old Students How to Invest
A long time entrepreneur has started teaching youth as young as 12 years old how to invest in the stock market. The program is called My Intentional Success or MIS. MIS students not only learn about investing, but earn profit sharing through their participation in the program with which they open their very own investment accounts.
Lubbock, TX, February 27, 2015 --(PR.com)-- Wish you knew more about money when you were younger? Shayne Webber, Ph.D. a local entrepreneur and owner of several Lubbock business is now teaching students as young as 12 years old to invest in the stock market. These students are not just learning how to invest. They are actually doing it.
Dr. Webber has devised a program from which students work as if the board of directors for a small business. The program is called My Intentional Success or MIS. At MIS, students create business plans, marketing plans, create budgets, work on graphic design, branding, and more for a podcast radio show, a magazine and printing department. These students, while learning about the process of developing a small business, receive profit shares from their efforts. In fact, they receive 75% of all project profits.
Of the funds the students earn, 25% is given directly to the student and 75% is sent to a local financial planner and deposited into the student’s very own investment account. These students, with their parent(s) or guardian, sit down with the financial planner and decide how to invest their money.
Meanwhile, the students attend weekly classes and learn about stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities, options, futures and commodity trading, gold and silver, real estate, hedge funds and more from local experts.
Dr. Webber is on a mission to change the way Americans, especially our youth, think about and use their money. Dr. Webber states, “We have a growing debt. Many families spend more than what they make every year and live paycheck to paycheck. We need to retake control of our finances. And, it made the most sense to me to start young, so we are starting with 6th-9th graders.”
“If our young people aren't financially literate, we are part of the problem, not part of the solution. And as a nation, we have a huge problem.” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said at Pensions & Investments' Investment Innovation and the Global Future of Retirement conference.
Dr. Webber adds “If we are to make a difference, we need to teach delayed gratification to our youth. Economics is all about expenditures. We can either spend our money now or invest our money and buy a lot more later.”
Dr. Webber has devised a program from which students work as if the board of directors for a small business. The program is called My Intentional Success or MIS. At MIS, students create business plans, marketing plans, create budgets, work on graphic design, branding, and more for a podcast radio show, a magazine and printing department. These students, while learning about the process of developing a small business, receive profit shares from their efforts. In fact, they receive 75% of all project profits.
Of the funds the students earn, 25% is given directly to the student and 75% is sent to a local financial planner and deposited into the student’s very own investment account. These students, with their parent(s) or guardian, sit down with the financial planner and decide how to invest their money.
Meanwhile, the students attend weekly classes and learn about stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities, options, futures and commodity trading, gold and silver, real estate, hedge funds and more from local experts.
Dr. Webber is on a mission to change the way Americans, especially our youth, think about and use their money. Dr. Webber states, “We have a growing debt. Many families spend more than what they make every year and live paycheck to paycheck. We need to retake control of our finances. And, it made the most sense to me to start young, so we are starting with 6th-9th graders.”
“If our young people aren't financially literate, we are part of the problem, not part of the solution. And as a nation, we have a huge problem.” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said at Pensions & Investments' Investment Innovation and the Global Future of Retirement conference.
Dr. Webber adds “If we are to make a difference, we need to teach delayed gratification to our youth. Economics is all about expenditures. We can either spend our money now or invest our money and buy a lot more later.”
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Shayne Webber
806-577-7217
www.myintentionalsuccess.com
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806-577-7217
www.myintentionalsuccess.com
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