FINANCIAL MATTERS 

Building Your Financial Portfolio on $25 a month (or less)
Instructors:  Bobbie and Eric Christensen
Join best-selling authors Bobbie and Eric Christensen for an information-packed seminar and learn how to turn $25 a month into $100,000 in just 10 years.  Learn how to invest in safe, secure growth stocks that are historically proven and will even gain during a recession; how to bypass yoru broker and keep the profits for yourself, plus what is happening in our economy and stock market today and how to use this to improve your own finances.  The Christensens are not brokers or financial managers but are investors just like you and have taught thousands how to invest safely.  “Simply the best invesement book yet! Extremely practical...” (On The Money, CNBC financial book review)

Optional book available at class for $15.

Date: Thursday,  February 3
Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: Social Science 109
Fee: $49 (plus a $15 optional CASH materials fee payable to the instructor in class)

Bobbie and Eric Christensen, California writers/speakers, have appeared on PBS’ Smart Money and Today. They are retired bankers and are the award-winning coauthors of the bestsell¬ing “Building Your Financial Portfolio On $25 a Month” and its sequel, “Top 50 Best Stock Investments”, as well as eight other books. They present this seminar and others nationwide.  ELPBooks@aol.com

Reduce Your Living Expenses by Ten Percent or More
Instructors:  Kamran Paydar
This 3-hour course teaches participants how to create visibility in their personal finances. Key financial habits are discussed including: organizing records, tracking key income and expenses, eliminating unnecessary expenses, approaches to gain control of debts, and making smart buying decisions.

Session I: Wednesday, February 16
Time: 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Session II:  Saturday, March 5
Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location:  Math Wing 146
Fee: $39 (plus a $30 CASH materials fee payable to the instructor in class)

Kamran Paydar has worked in the investment and finance arena for 15 years. A licensed California real estate broker, he has financed a wide variety of income properties. In recent years he has addressed audiences on the subject of key financial habits.

Passport to Retirement
Instructor:  Barbie Stowell, Michael Hernandez & Shawn Hochuli
This workshop will show you how to prepare for a financially secure retirement. You will learn to:
•  Diversify your investments to seek maximum return potential.
•  Use 401(k) s and IRAs to reduce your current income taxes and save for retirement.
• Control your health-care costs.
• Determine how much money you will need to retire.
• Find out if you are carrying more insurance coverage than you need.
• Potentially reduce your estate taxes.
• Know which investments work best for you.
• Transfer your estate to the loved ones and charities of your choice.

Session I: Tuesdays, March 1, 8 & 15
Session II: Thursdays, March 3, 10 & 17
Time: 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Location:  Math Wing 151
Fee:  $59, includes workbook. 

You may bring a guest at no extra cost.

Barbie Stowell, Shawn Hochuli and Michael Hernandez are well-known financial educators who have taught Retirement Planning at many of the area colleges, universities and businesses. With combined experience of more than 35 years, they have helped several thousand people move into retirement, showing them ways to avoid the mistakes made by retirees. Many of their clients have retired from major corporations such as Raytheon, Boeing, SCE, School Districts and Police Departments.