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

https://career.pasv.us/web-autorization

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