Hello and welcome back to my channel! So, it is officially back-to-school season
and if you're an adult like myself who does not have kids, going back to school
may mean something very different to you. For me back-to-school season kind of
signals hey let's take a good look at what your goals for the year are, how we
doing and what do we need to do to reach them before the end of the year. But also
I like to take a think on what can I do to continue my own lifelong learning, Now
I'm constantly reading books and you know reading blogs listen to other
people's podcasts even though I talk all day long about personal finance I'm
always trying to better myself and learn more and more more about every topic
about financial planning there is now sometimes I take courses and sometimes I
just try to find other resources available to me one thing that just
became available in June is TD Direct Investing now has a new Learning Center
what this Learning Center is is basically a online hub for webinars
online trainings videos master classes resources a bunch of amazing information
and just education for you at any level that you're at so it really is for
investors whether they're a beginner or totally advanced now if you've never
heard of TD Direct Investing actually did a video about them and their new
goal assist feature not too long ago so I'll link that in the description but
basically they're just an online discount broker so if you want to become
a self-directed investor which means you don't want anyone else to manage your
money you want to invest in what you want to invest on your own terms that is
how you do it you use a discount brokerage you buy and sell your own
investment products you make your own portfolio you're totally in the driver's
seat now that is one thing that I do is I dabble in some DIY investing and I do
use TD Direct Investing for some of my investments and what's awesome is they
cannot give you any financial or and vice so in my mind that kind of
means they cannot even if they wanted to tell you what kind of investments to buy
or how to build your portfolio they are not allowed to do that they have to kind
of remain objective and unbiased which is great because that means all of the
educational resources that they provide in their learning center doesn't have
some sort of bias or slant to do this or that it's just really information that
you can do whatever you want with and move forward with whatever investment
strategy that you want to do and since I'm a TV Direct Investing customer I am
able to give you a look into what this Learning Center is all about okay so I
have just logged into my TD Direct Investing web broker account but I'm
gonna now go through their new Learning Center so you just click on learn at the
top here it's just broken down into kind of three parts we've got some video
lessons we've got a live master classes and we have webinars so for the video
lessons as you can see if they've organized all of their videos into three
different courses so they kind of tell you how long if you wanted to go through
all the videos how long it'll take for new to investing so if you're really
starting from scratch you don't even know where to start this is where you
would start this new to investing online course and it only takes you 45 minutes
if you want to learn more about portfolio management how to construct
build and maintain an investment plan as a long-term investor it only takes you
an hour by watching all of their videos and of course if you're very new to TD
direct investing in their web broker platform this is the course for you
because it'll go through all of the different features and how to use it
so to give you an idea of what each course kind of looks like it's basically
just a kind of video playlist so you know very well if you know some of this
already you can just kind of skip to the topics that you want to learn more about
or you can do like me and I just went through all of them in sequence just so
I can get kind of a full picture of what they wanted to teach me so that is the
kind of video lesson section and just go back to the Learning Center home here
now let's take a look at the master classes section so while the video
you're great for learning about specific topics whenever you want sometimes you
just may have some specific questions that those videos just don't cover so
that is why there are these master classes they are run daily by T DS team
of experienced instructors and the best part about these classes is well they're
free which is great and personally not something I've seen offered by other
brokerages at least to the scale or quality maybe they are now oh I haven't
seen a ton so let's dive into take a look at how you it can take advantage of
these different master classes alright so when you click on that link you come
to this page the TD Direct Investing master class page everything is on this
one page so every kind of link except for the register link of course we'll
just kind of send you to that section so you could just scroll down to read
everything but basically at the top here it shows you that you can choose you
know a class by topic so let's see if I click on fixed income it'll Ford me to
page 8 and give me kind of the different subtopics and different times for when
those master classes are and it'll give you kind of the learning objectives so
you have a full idea of what you're going to get yourself into and if you
scroll down to the bottom you can see a full master class schedule by month and
also the different instructors and their BIOS if you want to learn a bit more
about who are these instructors what's their kind of experience and expertise
this is where you'd find all of that information and of course if you're like
yep I want to register for something then you just click on maybe a topic and
then you would go register I want to register for August and then you'd of
course write your name and your email and then you would just click register
so that is what the master classes are all about but there are also webinars so
whereas master classes are offered every day by TD instructors TV director
investing also invites guests speakers to share their experiences through their
webinar program with at least two live events every single month and not only
that there are more than 100 past webinars that they've done archived in
their catalog and you can watch those anytime so I'm going to show you what
all of that looks like right now okay so if you click on that webinars
button you'll get to this page and it'll give you this schedule and all the
different topics of these different webinars now what's cool about these
webinars is they are usually given by people outside of TV so for instance
this one an introduction to hedging foreign
investments featuring Vanguard Canada is by senior investment strategist Todd
schlanger from Vanguard Canada so it's kind of neat these ones will have people
outside of TD just to get a maybe a different perspective on some of these
topics which is pretty cool and also some of these are already on demand
they've already taken place so you can just watch all these past webinars and
then there's ones where you can register and this one is upcoming so there's ones
that are upcoming and there's ones that have already happened that you can watch
at your leisure if you're so inclined and Wow there are a lot of them so that
is it that is the Learning Center you've got your video courses which they are
adding new videos to all the time and you've got your master classes and
webinars which they are adding to every single month as well and of course the
best part is all of this is free if you have a TD Direct Investing account like
myself now even though TD Direct Investing cannot give you any advice on
which investments to buy they cannot do that with the Learning Center and also
their goal is this feature which I went through in a previous video what they
are doing to me is showing that they truly want to help
Canadians invest on their own terms and honestly personal note here because I
have been working with TD Direct Investing on a number of projects I
believe this myself firstly like that's why I'm saying that like there are good
people and they really do want to promote DIY investing and really just
like get more young Canadians especially to take action in building their wealth
and just investing on their own terms which i think is really awesome and
that's why I'm really a big fan of this Learning Center that they now have now
if you want to get more of a taste of their Learning Center for yourself
besides watching this video what you can actually do is you can sign up for a
free introductory master class with them which happens every single Friday at 4
p.m. Eastern Time and all I have to do to do that is
at TD Direct Investing dot CA / learn you CPC I will also include the link in
the description of this video okay so that is it that is what the TD
Direct Investing Learning Centre looks like and everything that you can find in
there I hope that's been helpful if your kind of at that stage where you want to
be a DIY investor or dabble a little bit and you're looking for a discount broker
this might be something to kind of put in the mix when you're comparing all of
your options now if you have any questions about anything I went through
or anything about just investing in general please leave a comment below and
I will try my best to answer also this is very important for me because I am
working on something very exciting a upcoming investing series for this
channel so I want to know what you want to know and then I can make videos
answering that to help you know what you don't know right now does that make
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one so that is it for me thank you so much for watching I will be back very
soon so I will see you next time