Ithaca College

National Financial Literacy Month is recognized in April as an effort to highlight the importance of financial literacy and teach individuals how to establish and maintain healthy financial habits.

Because effective money management and retirement saving are some of the most important aspects of your financial life, we have teamed up with TIAA-CREF to offer financial live webinars through its online Virtual Environment.

Once you register for the Virtual Environment, you’ll have access to financial education, and self-paced and live seminars designed to help you save more, better manage your expenses, and invest for your retirement.

Live webinars include the following:

Inside Money: Managing income and debt | 4/14, 12-1 p.m. 4/15, 3-4 p.m.
Discover how to help make your money work harder by using your cash flow more effectively, developing good saving habits and better managing debt.

Money at Work: Foundations of investing | 4/15, 12-1 p.m. 4/16, 3-4 p.m.
See the real effect of time on money, learn how to plan for retirement, find additional ways to save, and prepare your balance sheet for retirement.

Equally Prepared: Financial planning for the LGBT community | 4/14, 3-4 p.m.
Understand the specific financial challenges facing the LGBT community, both financial and legislative and find potential solutions to address them. Also learn how to develop an estate plan — wills, trusts, power of attorney and healthcare directives.

Charting Your Course: A financial guide for women | 4/21, 12-1 p.m. 4/22, 3-4 p.m.
Understand the financial challenges unique to women, as well as get tailored approaches to saving for retirement, goal setting, evaluating your financial health, and tips to help your money work harder.

Paying Yourself: Income options in retirement | 4/21, 3-4 p.m. 4/23, 12-1 p.m.
Discover practical strategies for taking retirement income, tax advantages of various types of distributions, and see how to manage your retirement plan account for the long term.

Economic outlook and investment insights | 4/22, 12-1 p.m.
TIAA-CREF Managing Director and Global Investment Strategist Dan Morris, who makes regular appearances on CNBC and Bloomberg News, will discuss economic developments that could impact your retirement savings strategy, including global market perspectives, the pace of the U.S. economic recovery, and how the Federal Reserve Bank’s actions could influence markets.

There’s no better time than right now to take advantage of these valuable insights that can help you in every key aspect of your financial life.