Home > Money & Business > Personal Finance > Saving & Investing > Protecting Your Investment [Image: Protecting Investment cover] Materials covered in the Saving and Investing for Life: Protecting Your Investment include: understanding and selecting your financial team, their professional designations and how to avoid investment scams. Principles of Investing [Image: principles of investing cover] Materials covered in the Saving and Investing for Life: Principles of Investing include: selecting the best investment options and determining your personal investment risk-tolerance level. Investment Options [Image: Investment options cover] Materials covered in Saving and Investing for Life: Investment Options include: learning to develop SMART financial goals, your options for saving for emergency funds, comparing college savings plans and learning to read a financial page. Financial Basics: Practical Steps to Building Wealth [Image: Financial Basics Cover] Materials covered in this unit include: learning the difference between good debt and bad debt; calculating your net worth; developing a debt repayment and a saving-spending plan; and planning your emergency fund.  more articles... The Effect of Federal Rate Cuts on Consumers Federal Reserve rate cuts can be good news/bad news scenarios for consumers. Find out how a rate change will impact you. Family Economist Pushes Louisianians To Save According to A.G. Edwards 2006 Nest Egg Index rankings, Louisiana residents do not save well in comparison to the rest of the nation. Louisiana is ranked 49th among the states, ranked higher only than Mississippi. Easy Program Helps Calculate Amount To Save For Retirement Do you know how much money you need to save for retirement? According to the 2005 Retirement Confidence Survey (RCS), only about four in 10 workers surveyed have tried to determine how much they will need to save for a comfortable retirement.