How much should you save?
Understand practical cash-flow ratios, building an emergency buffer, and balancing lifestyle spending with financial growth.
Free Live Webinar
Investing 101
A Practical Guide to Money, Savings & Investments
Madhur Kakkar Founder & CEO, Wall St. 101
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Date Tue, 22 Sep 2026
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Time 4:30 PM GST
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Format Zoom • Free
Reserve Your Spot
Tuesday, 22 September at 4:30 PM GST
Why Start Now
Money Gets Real Before You Expect It
Your first salary. Your first emergency expense. Your first investment opportunity. The financial decisions you make early in your career determine your long-term independence — yet conventional education rarely prepares you for them.
When should you start?
Learn why time in the market beats timing the market, and how starting with small sums compounds exponentially.
What should you invest in?
Demystify the actual building blocks: equities, index funds, ETFs, fixed income, and modern diversified portfolios.
How do you avoid hype?
Protect your capital from social media hype, meme trades, and emotional FOMO by grounding decisions in proven fundamentals.
Core Curriculum
What You Will Master in 60 Minutes
A concise, beginner-friendly roadmap covering the foundational mechanics of money management, investments, portfolio allocation, and smart risk management.
1. The Money Management Framework
How to balance spending, saving, and investing without living under artificial constraints.
2. Saving vs. Investing
Why cash in a savings account loses purchasing power to inflation and how investing combats it.
3. The Mechanics of Compound Growth
A mathematical look at how early investments multiply over decades through consistent returns.
4. Asset Classes Deconstructed
Clear explanations of individual stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, and global market indexes.
5. Understanding Risk & Volatility
How to quantify risk, calculate potential downside, and match investments to your risk profile.
6. Portfolio Diversification
Why spreading capital across sectors, geographies, and asset classes creates durable resilience.
7. Top Beginner Traps to Avoid
Real-life case studies of herd mentality, day trading traps, and leverage mistakes to steer clear of.
8. Interactive Market Simulation Intro
How you can practice executing trades and tracking portfolios risk-free on the Wall St. 101 platform.
Madhur Kakkar is an entrepreneur and finance professional with over two decades of experience across banking, wealth management, investments and fintech. Based in Dubai, he has worked with and led financial businesses serving clients across the UAE and the wider region.
He began his career in wealth management, leading flagship branches for global banking institutions. He later helped scale one of Dubai’s leading brokerage firms before co-founding and serving as CEO of a DIFC-based asset advisory and fund management company.
Today, Madhur leads ventures spanning financial services, Wall St. 101 and AI-powered algorithmic trading. Through Wall St. 101, he brings his industry experience into financial education, helping students and beginners build practical money skills and understand investing with greater confidence.
In this webinar, he combines the fundamentals of money, saving and investing with lessons from his own life and career. Expect clear explanations, relatable examples and practical perspectives that connect financial concepts to the decisions students face as they begin managing their own money.
The best time to learn about money
is before you need it.
Every salary, expense and investment opportunity is a decision. The fundamentals you learn today shape how well you handle all of them
Session: Investing 101
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Date: 22 September 2026
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Time: 4:30 PM GST
Learn Money Before You Have to Manage It.