Get Started with Investing: Deepen Your Knowledge

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This free resource provides you with information that can help deepen your knowledge about investment products and markets.

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Overview

1: Investment Risk and Return

Understand the relationship between risk and return, and consider the investment risk level you’re prepared to take with your money.

2: Diversification and Asset Mix

Learn about the role diversification can play in managing the overall risk of your investment portfolio.

3: Investment Portfolios

Discover ways to start building three common types of investment portfolios: income, balanced, and growth portfolios.

4: Understanding Fees

Fees are a part of investing, and it’s important to know what you’re paying for your investments and/or your investment service provider.

5: Working with an Investment Advisor

Learn about what you can expect if you choose to work with a registered investment advisor.

6: Your Role When Working with an Advisor

The client-advisor relationship is a two-way street, and it’s important to know what your responsibilities are.

7: Robo-advising and Self-directed Investing

You have options when it comes to how you want to manage your investments, including using robo-advisors and taking a self-directed route.

8: Common Investment Products

Learn about four common types of investments available to you for purchase.

9: Investing Trends

Stay informed on popular and alternative investments so you can understand how to best approach them.

10: Private Placement Market

Learn the basics of private placement investments, and the risks associated with investing in the private placement market.

11: Investment Fraud

Find out how the BCSC’s online tools can help you recognize, reject, and report investment scams.

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About BC Securities Commission InvestRight

A key goal of the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) is to empower investors to protect their financial interests and become better informed about investment products and services. The InvestRight website provides investors with online tools and information to help them make wise investing decisions and protect themselves against unsuitable or potentially fraudulent investments.