Investing 101: A simple guide for beginners

Investing is vital to your financial health, but this process can intimidate even the savviest of money mavens. Here’s how to defang your fear of investing and start making your money work for you.

Despite growing up with a financial planner for a father, the idea of investing intimidated me well into my adulthood. From my point of view, investing seemed like a mysterious process. Not only was this magical money-making exercise conducted in an arcane language (what exactly is a NASDAQ, and why does it sound like something you treat with a special cream?), but it also required my dad to keep the TV in his office tuned to the world’s most mind-numbing broadcast, even though cartoons were just a channel away.