Morningstar’s Investing Classroom - A Portfolio of Education

I just ran across Morningstar’s Investing Classroom. The site has courses available that will help you build and understand your portfolio. Courses can be audited but if you complete the free registration you get credits that can be exchanged for Morningstar products and merchandise.

The classes are grouped under four topics, Portfolio, Stocks, Mutual Funds, and Bonds. Under each topic there are 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500 level courses, with 10 or so classes in each level. I plan to go through the portfolio classes then the mutual fund classes.

I look forward to being able to take and understand these classes:

• 501: Why Bother with Investment Theory?
• 502: Efficient Market Theory
• 503: Modern Portfolio Theory
• 504: Asset Allocation Is “It”
• 505: Can Foreign Stocks Really Diversify a Portfolio?
• 506: Value: The “Better” Approach?
• 507: Measuring Mutual-Fund Manager Skill
• 508: The Small-Company Advantage: Fact or Fiction?
• 509: The Demise of Dividends
• 510: Behavioral Finance