Tackling America’s Financial Crisis: Wharton Club Launches Youth Financial Literacy Program
Friday, August 19, 2011
These are unusual financial times, to say the least.
The Wharton Club of Northern California is excited to present you with an opportunity to spread the educational knowledge that comes with the power of your Wharton degree.
As the country struggles to emerge from the worst economic crisis in decades,
financial literacy has become a priority for America's youth. Reuben Advani, WG01, Founder and President of Telestrat Education and author of “The Wall Street MBA”, launched the
Financial Literacy Youth Project to teach financial literacy to students. Reuben's work is particularly focused on those students in the neighborhoods most affected by the economic downturn.
You will learn how to communicate to a young audience concepts such as:
- How to invest
- How to handle debt
- The importance of saving and how to quantify it
- Good debt versus bad debt
- Credit cards
- Mortgages
- How to manage individual financial risk
- Power of compounding
- Real versus nominal interest rates
During this call, Reuben will walk you through a
1-hour structured training program that has been successfully launched in Philadelphia and is now being taught nationwide through the support of Wharton alums and beyond. After this 1 hour train-the-trainer session, you will be equipped to teach financial literacy to America’s youth in your communities through 4 hour pro bono commitment spread over several months.
And by the way, if you learn to add value with this for the kids in your community, think how much impact you'll be able to have with your own kids!
Register Online (Training materials will be distributed via email after you register)
Date: Friday, August 19, 2011
Time: 12:00
noon PST
Location: Via Conference Call (Dial-in and pass code to be provided the day before the event by e-mail).
Cost: No charge for current Wharton Club of Northern California members; members-only for this event. Registration closes Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 12:00 PM PDT.
About Reuben Advani, WG01
Reuben Advani is president of Telestrat Education. Telestrat Education is a worldwide leader that offers lawyers certified continuing legal education (CLE) courses focusing on finance, accounting and business strategy. Through the Youth Financial Literacy Program, Telestrat and its trained trainers can offer basic financial skills training to help young individuals earn and save more. This initiative is entirely pro bono, and its goal is to help America's youth build a better financial future.
Mr. Advani began his career with the Wall Street bank, Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.where he worked in the firm’s corporate finance division. At Morgan Stanley, he performed detailed valuation analysis on acquisition targets for Fortune 500 companies and oversaw the coordination of several debt and equity issuances. After Morgan Stanley, Mr. Advani joined Sony Corporation of America where he was active in the development of Sony's online initiatives. Mr. Advani has provided consulting services to companies throughout the U.S. and Latin America and has held interim positions with several of them including CFO and COO. He is a frequent speaker on topics ranging from corporate valuation to financial reporting and is the author of The Wall Street MBA(McGraw-Hill).
Mr. Advani holds a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the Wharton School, and serves as an adjunct professor of finance at Drexel University.
