Erin Beable and Charline Burgess wish they had learned about finance in their younger years. As college students, both were bombarded with high-interest-rate credit-card offers then succumbed to the compounding effect of interest on their balances and fell into significant debt.
“If I had been taught as a teenager everything that I teach now, the landscape of my life could have been totally different,” says Charline, a Senior Wealth Education Specialist at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.