Personal Financial Advice from a former Certified Financial Planner
One of the questions I’ve gotten a lot over my financial career is how to start investing. The reality is that just about any way you start investing is a good way to start investing. Unfortunately, the idea of an investment account, a brokerage, and investments themselves can seem overwhelming …
New Grifin news: According to my Grifin email message, The Grifin brokerage account will change from DriveWealth LLC to Alpaca Securities LLC. While no specific reasons have been given, one can assume a cooler name didn’t hurt. Seriously, as Grifin users this will have no effect on you other than …
Recently, I did a review of the Acorns app. If you are not already familiar with the Acorns savings and investing app, you should read that for an introduction how to use Acorns first. It also covers questions like Is Acorns safe, What are Acorns fees, and If Acorns is …
Is Stash Stock Back Card a scam? Is the Stash Stock Back Card safe? Is the whole Stock Cash Back Card legit? We take a look. What Is Stash? Stash is one of many micro-brokers pushing the so-called fintech movement. We should start by asking if Stash is a legitimate …
I’m going to be changing my long-standing policy on Finance Gourmet on not recommending specific investments. Stock buying opportunities require more knowledge than most would-be investors are willing to acquire, but for those willing to learn, there is gold in them thar stock markets. Instead of babying my readers, I’m …
I’m not going to get into the Gamestop thing. There are plenty of other places you can read about it. Finance Gourmet isn’t really about day-trading or riding trends like this. What Finance Gourmet IS about is providing financial information and data to investors. I didn’t even get a chance …
It is time for a mega-review session where we review Stash versus Acorns versus Robinhood versus Betterment, and Wealthfront. Why these apps? These are current front runners in a crowded space that encourages small investments from regular people as a way to invest rather than the traditional broker models of …