Beardstown group shares wealth Consumer and Family Economics Consumer and Family Economics Extension provides consumer information on family and personal finance, family resource management and poverty. Beardstown group shares wealth Making money in stocks and mutual funds takes more than good luck and deep pockets.
Successful investors are information-rich as well.
For a growing number of Missourians, MU Extension is offering answers through consumer and family economists, who enlighten citizens on money matters, big and small. Nancy Flood, a consumer and family economics specialist from Putnam County, wanted to reach a general audience - the majority likely women with investment information. Their average rate of return on investments is a whopping 23 percent, better than scores of professional investors. One message we convey in our programming is that anyone can make it in investments, you just have to do your homework. On that note, Flood also included on the ticket an expert in mutual funds, MU consumer and family economics professor Craig Israelsen.