Financial Literacy & Investing Course Ireland

What Do You Want? Taking Control of Your Future
Course
Define what you want, align life goals with financial goals, avoid common financial planning mistakes, and turn learning into action.
Budgeting: Building Clarity and Control
Course
Learn how to understand where your money goes, identify habits and trade-offs, and build a budgeting approach that supports better financial decisions.
Building an Emergency Fund: Preparing for the Unexpected
Course
Build a practical emergency fund, understand how much you may need, where to keep it, and how to prepare for unexpected expenses with more confidence.
Understanding Personal Debt: Borrowing, Managing and Taking Control
Course
Understand how debt works, including different types of debt, key terminology, the difference between good and bad debt, and how to maintain a good credit rating. Explore practical repayment strategies and common pitfalls to make better decisions.
Understanding Interest Rates: The Price of Money
Course
Understand why interest rates matter, how central banks influence them and how they affect saving and borrowing. Explore APR, amortisation and the time value of money to make better financial decisions.
The Power of Compounding: Growth on Growth
Course
Explore how compounding creates growth over time and why starting early and remaining consistent matter. Learn about returns, risk, the Rule of 72, common pitfalls and the connection between budgeting and long-term wealth building.
Inflation: The Silent Erosion
Course
Understand how inflation affects prices, purchasing power, savings, debt and long-term financial decisions, with practical examples including CPI, cost of living and real-world price changes.
Introduction to Investing: From Curiosity to Confidence
Course
Investing is for everyone. Learn why investing matters, understand risk and return, recognise your investor profile, avoid speculation, and approach investing with greater perspective, discipline, and process.
Introduction to Asset Classes
Course
This module introduces the main asset classes that investors may encounter. The goal is to help learners understand the range of investment options available and think more clearly about risk, return, fees, liquidity, complexity and diversification.
Understanding Bonds: Lending as an Investment
Course
Governments and companies borrow money. Bond investors lend them money. Learn how bonds work, from the mechanics of an individual bond to risk, inflation, diversification and the broader bond market.
Understanding Equities: Owning a Piece of a Company
Course
From Main Street to Wall Street, learn what it means to own equities, from individual shares to stock market indices, dividend investing, and active versus passive investing.
Asset Allocation: Building Modern Portfolios
Course
Explore how asset allocation moved from theory to common practice. Learn about different approaches through State Street model portfolios and a university endowment. Hear why famous investors warn about diversification, and the risk of complacency.
Investing in Practice: From Theory to Action
Course
Learn how investing works in practice, from account types, advice models, the impact of fees, using an online platform, order types, ETFs, fund factsheets, safeguarding assets and moving from practice mode to real decisions.
Financial Planning & Wealth Allocation
Course
Learn how to connect your goals, financial situation, risk profile and investment decisions into a practical long-term financial planning framework.

Vincent McCarthy, CFA

Vincent has more than 20 years of experience across wealth management, investment consulting and financial education. He has studied, worked and lived in multiple countries, is fluent in English and Spanish, and has travelled to more than 40 countries, bringing an international perspective to his work and teaching.

He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, an MSc in Finance from Fairfield University and a First Class Honours degree in Business Studies from the University of Limerick.

His approach to financial education focuses on making complex financial concepts practical, understandable and relevant to real-world decisions.

CFA Charterholder 20+ Years' Experience MSc Finance

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Get access to the complete 14-module programme, including more than 225 short videos, quizzes and reflection exercises.

€195

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14 modules • 225+ short videos • Quizzes & reflection exercises

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Build your financial knowledge step by step

Know Where You're Going

Build Your Financial Foundation

Understand Financial Forces

Learn How Investing Works

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Modules

Hours of Video Content

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Quizzes & Reflection

Inside the Programme

What Do You Want? Taking Control of Your Future

Budgeting: Building Clarity and Control

Building an Emergency Fund: Preparing for the Unexpected

Understanding Personal Debt: Borrowing, Managing and Taking Control

Understanding Interest Rates: The Price of Money

The Power of Compounding: Growth on Growth

Inflation: The Silent Erosion

Introduction to Investing: From Curiosity to Confidence

Introduction to Asset Classes

Understanding Bonds: Lending as an Investment

Understanding Equities: Owning a Piece of a Company

Asset Allocation: Building Modern Portfolios

Investing in Practice: From Theory to Action

Financial Planning & Wealth Allocation

Vincent McCarthy, CFA

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