Protect Your Piggy Bank: Using the Library's Weiss Ratings Database

Not familiar with Weiss Financial Ratings? Come learn about this invaluable library resource available to you FREE with your Orland Park Public Library card. Weiss Financial Ratings offers independent, unbiased financial strength ratings of banks, credit unions and insurance companies and conservative buy-hold-sell investment ratings of thousands of stocks, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. You can even set up a personal account to create a watchlist and get upgrade/downgrade notifications. For those of you on Medicare, there is also a great tool to help you evaluate the available Medicare Supplement Insurance plans and make sure you are getting the best price.

At this one-hour session, Tom Kilkenny from Weiss Financial Ratings will teach us how to create an account, set up a watchlist for your bank, insurance company, stocks and mutual funds, how to create research tools (screeners) and run a Medigap report.