Learn How and Why to Invest with Jackie Cummings Koski

#MyInvestingStory is created to share the stories of individual investors.

Ann McNeill, a BetterInvesting Volunteer, talks with Jackie Cummings Koski, a BetterInvesting Board Member, about her investing story. 

After overcoming poverty, divorce and single motherhood, Jackie still managed to retire early (in her 40s) to follow her dream of creating a financial-literate society. Jackie is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance (CEPF®), and author of the book, “Money Letters 2 my Daughter”, which was the 2013 winner of an Excellence in Financial Literacy Education (EIFLE) Award for Adult’s Book of the Year, Money Management. Jackie has served on the Ohio/Kentucky/Indiana Chapter Board of Directors for the past 10 years and recently joined the National BetterInvesting Board.

First, let's start with who we are not, and what we don't do. We are not "day traders." We are not professional investment advisers, stock brokers, or bond traders. We don't deal in penny stocks. We don't teach buying on Margin (using borrowed money). We don't teach Technical Analysis or Charting. We don't teach Options trading. We don't get paid for what we do, and we don't earn commissions, referrals, or kickbacks. 

Our official name is the National Association of Investors Corporation (NAIC). We are a non-profit, volunteer driven, educational organization founded in 1951 by a small group of individual investors looking for a better way. Several years ago we adopted the trade name BetterInvesting because it makes for a shorter and easier to remember URL (www.betterinvesting.org).  MONEYLETTERS2.COM