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Acorns / Invest Your Spare Change Automatically
Acorns Investing app makes it easy for anyone to start, build, and manage an investment portfolio through automation and spare change.
- Promotion: $5 signup bonus after your first investment.
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Acorns Banking / High-Yield Checking Account and Emergency Fund
Acorns banking is a checking account, emergency savings, and debit card that saves, invests, and earns money for you.
- No minimum balance or overdraft fees.
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Acorns Early / Custodial Accounts for Kids
Acorns Early is a custodial account that makes saving and investing for your child or any child in your life easy.
- Get started with $5 and set up recurring daily, weekly, or monthly investments.
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Acorns Later / Roth IRA and Traditional – Retirement Investing
- Acorns Later offers traditional, Roth, and SEP IRAs to save for your later years.
- No minimum balance. Get started with $5.
Acorns is a financial services company offering the following:
- Banking: A checking account with a metal debit card that saves and invests for you.
- Later: An automated way to save with tax-advantaged retirement accounts.
- Early: A custodial account to invest for kids
- Earn – helps you make extra money with cash-back for using recommended services from partners.
What makes Acorns different?
The five investment portfolios were designed to maximize your returns for your selected level of risk. There are no account minimums and on commission.
With the low monthly fee, you get
- Diversified portfolios
- Automatic rebalancing
- Access to Found Money partners to earn while you shop
- On the go accessibility through mobile and web app
- Investment support from a dedicated support team
- Access to Later, an easy way to save for retirement
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Access to Spend, the only debit card that saves, invests, and earns for you
Acorns FAQs
Is Acorns a good investment?
Acorns is a good way to invest if you’re unsure how much you can save and need help to start investing. Investments use ETFs and with small deposits, it may take some time to create a large nest egg.
Can you lose money with Acorns?
The app invests your money in the market so there is a chance you’ll lose your savings. This is true for any market investments you make. Acorns invests conservatively and with a long-term horizon, you can benefit from the historical average return of the market.
Is Acorn safe and legit?
Acorns is a legitimate company. The application and website are operated by Acorns Advisers, LLC an investment adviser registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Securities in your investment accounts are SIPC-protected up to $500,000. Your checking account is FDIC-insured up to $250,000. You can withdraw available funds and/or close your account at any time.
What are the fees?
Acorns fees are tier-based. Light is $1 per month for all accounts under $1 million. The monthly fee rises to $100 per month for every million invested afterward. Personal is $3 per month which includes Later and Spend. Family is $5 per month with Later, Spend, and Early.
Is Acorns still free for students?
The app is free for students under the age of 24 and using a .edu email address will automatically waive your fees.
Is Acorns a bank account?
Acorns Spend, a checking account, is created in partnership with Lincoln Savings Bank, N.A. No minimum balance or overdraft fees, and fee-reimbursed ATMs nationwide. The checking account comes with a tungsten metal debit card. When you make a purchase with Spend debit card, your purchase is rounded to the nearest dollar and invests into your Acorns Invest account.
Does Acorns actually make you money?
As an investment app, it enables you to save money into one or more ETFs. As with any investments in the market, your money has the opportunity to grow (or make you money) but also the potential to lose.