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Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2017-2018 
    
Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ECON 3660 Personal Finance


4 semester hours

This course is a comprehensive coverage of consumer finance. Topics are consumer credit, consumer spending, and investing for the short run and the long run. Housing and real estate investing, personal financial planning, and various investment vehicles such as equity, fixed rate of return instruments, annuities, and insurance, as well as the fundamentals of tax planning are addressed. The emphasis is on evaluating choices and understanding the consequences of decisions in terms of opportunity costs.

Prerequisite: ECON 1050 .