| • | 16 Basic Principles of Investing - Offers practical investing overview, links to other investing overview sites. |
| • | A to Z Investments - 200+ page online book about investing. |
| • | About.com: Investing for Beginners - Offers advice and links for beginning investors. |
| • | American Association of Individual Investors - Nonprofit offering information on stocks, bonds and mutual funds. Free membership required to access all content. |
| • | Arizona Corporation Commission, Securities Division - Information to reduce the possibility of falling victim to scam artists and unscrupulous financial professionals. |
| • | BasicInvest - Free research, easy to understand definitions, links to top mutual fund companies. |
| • | CBS.MarketWatch.com - News, market data, portfolios, mutual funds, personal finance, and discussions. |
| • | ConsumerSearch.com: Online Brokers - Reviews, analyzes and ranks online brokers. |
| • | Discount Broker Reviews - Comparative lists of online discount brokerages and their rates and features. Includes personal experiences. Customer comments accepted. |
| • | How to Avoid Internet Investment Scams - Securities and Exchange Commission information about investment fraud. |
| • | Income Profiles - Investment advice for those interested in more conservate investments, including real estate and bonds. |
| • | Indextracker - Information about the workings and advantages of index investing, asset allocation and re-balancing. |
| • | InvesTools - Delivers investment advisory services. Investors can enter a ticker symbol and generate a list of advisor recommendations and model portfolios. Registration required, but is free. |
| • | Investor Education Fund - Tips for individual investors in six languages from the Ontario Securities Commission - risks, scams, fees, tools, investment strategies. Includes videos. |
| • | InvestorGuide - Free comprehensive guide to investing and personal finance. |
| • | Jasonzweig.com - Zweig is a senior writer for Money magazine. This site seeks to help investors maximize the odds of reaching their goals. This site preaches the virtues of investing patience and condemns bad logic and bad behavior. |
| • | LearnInvesting.com - Learn about investing in stocks and commodities. |
| • | MsFiscallyFit.com: Investing - Articles on getting started in investing. |
| • | MSN MoneyCentral - Quotes, stock research, portfolio tracking, news, and online bill payment. Keep informed and plan for retirement, college, taxes, insurance, real estate, and savings. |
| • | Mutual Fund Education Alliance - Features pricing and performance information on thousands of mutual funds plus news and educational information about fund investing. |
| • | NASAA - Investor Education - Advice on protecting oneself from scams and con artists while carefully screening investment opportunities. |
| • | Online Investing: The Wall Street Journal - Collection of articles offering information and advice on online investing. Based on the book Online Investing, written by the editors and reporters of the Wall Street Journal, online version. |
| • | Online Investor Complaint Center - Resource guide for online investors with complaints against an online broker. |
| • | Seniors Against Investment Fraud - SAIF - Statewide outreach campaign under the California Department of Corporations to alert and educate seniors about investment and telemarketing fraud crimes. |
| • | SmartMoney University - Investor education site with articles appealing both to novices and to veteran investors. |
| • | Stock and Investment Guide For Beginning Investors - Information for beginning investors including investing terms, an introduction to the stock market and buying stocks, and DRPs. |
| • | Stocks Quest - Stock market game teaches the basics of investment through a market simulation, investing basics, lessons, and real life examples. |
| • | Teen Analyst - Educational guide to investing targeted at teenagers and other young adults. |
| • | The Academy of Young Investors - AYI is a nonprofit organization that teaches investors how to start investing in mutual funds and stocks. |
| • | The Coffeehouse Investor - Advocates an investment strategy of meeting, not beating, the stock market. Free quarterly newsletter. |
| • | The Investor's Clearninghouse - Service provided by the Alliance for Investor Education offers resources to the individual investor and consumers. |
| • | WISE - Winning through Investment Strategies & Education - An educational partnership between the Oklahoma Securities Commission and the University of Oklahoma Outreach. |
| • | Writing about Money - Financial commentator Fiona Place explains the world of investment. Included are many of her columns which were published in the Australian Financial Review and the Australian newspapers. |
| • | Yahoo!: Beginning Investing - Articles give an overview of investing as well as specific types of investments. |
