Webinar: Investing, the Stock Market and Retirement in the USA — How It Works
April 29, 2026
3:00 PM PST
Los Angeles
5:00 PM CST
Chicago
6:00 PM EST
New York
Online
Webinar: Investing, the stock market and retirement in the USA — how it works
April 29 (Wednesday)
6:00 PM PDT / 9:00 PM EDT
Online
How does investing in the USA actually work?
How much should you set aside, where should you invest, and how does a pension take shape?
In this webinar we go through it all in practical terms — no theory and no generic advice.
Speaker: Slava Chernoy
A developer and engineer with more than 20 years of experience
- over 10 years working in Israel and over 10 years in the USA (Silicon Valley)
- experience at large companies including Cisco and IBM, as well as at startups and in FinTech
- worked at a hedge fund in quantitative trading
- helped build trading systems handling portfolios of around $100B
- worked directly with traders and knows how the market runs from the inside
- Education: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Technion (Israel Institute of Technology)
- A curious detail: while studying he solved an open problem related to Dijkstra’s algorithms
- What we will discuss
- how to start investing: a personal path and the first results
- why the stock market, and what the alternatives are
- how retirement works in the USA and what a 401(k) is
- whether you should be saving, and how much
- real investment strategies
- investments that worked and ones that did not
- how to invest on an income of $100K a year
- how much capital you need to retire
- how an investment portfolio is put together
- the usual beginner mistakes
- what is happening to the US economy right now
- trends and forecasts
At the end of the session:
we will talk about the investing course starting on May 2
Register and send your questions in advance