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Stewardship Finance Academy
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James Lim has worked in his mentor’s, John Yii, company for years, where they helped paid members to attain comprehensive market analyses and suggested trading strategies. Although the analysis and trading strategies were correct, about 50% of members lost money in investing. James realised that these members did not have foundational skills in investment and trading. He knew that just giving people trading strategies and market analysis was insufficient. For this reason, James Lim founded Stewardship Finance Academy (SFA) in 2017, an investment, personal finance and trading education provider based in Brisbane, Australia, to equip people with foundational knowledge so that their investments can be sustainable.Stewardship Finance Academy equips people to achie
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- Analyze key points to prepare yourself for investing
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- List your investment goals
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- Identify your risk tolerance
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- Recall the essential knowledge to become a competent investor
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- Evaluate and select the right ETFs
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How Value Investing Works
1.5-3 hrs 4,896 learners
By Stewardship Finance Academy You Will Learn How To
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Recognise the investing strategy of great investors Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett
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- Recognise the stock market's behaviour in the short and long run
- Define the stock's 'real value'
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- Describe what a fundamentally strong company looks like
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By Stewardship Finance Academy You Will Learn How To
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain stock investment like an experienced investor
- Describe how the successful investors invest
- Discuss the mindsets an investor should have
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- Identify the investment mistakes to avoid
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By Stewardship Finance Academy You Will Learn How To
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
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