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What is Acorns?
The basic premise is that they’re an app that helps automate your investing. And their most notable feature, in my opinion, would be their “round up” feature — this lets you invest the spare change from what you spend, and you can just “round up” every single purchase to the nearest dollar to invest the difference.
They also give you the option to setup recurring investments on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis… again, the entire purpose of this app is just to help automate regular and consistent investing. They’ll also let you see, real time, what your investments COULD be worth depending on your contributions…so it’s really meant to get you thinking about the long term.
Now in terms of WHAT they invest in, they say “Your investments are then diversified across more than 7,000 stocks and bonds and automatically rebalanced when the market fluctuates.” So basically, they’re investing in broad funds that track the market, very similar to the vanguard index funds I always talk about on the channel.
And when it comes to this, Acorns is what’s called a Robo-Advisor — this has definitely gained some popularity lately with other companies like Wealthfront, Bettermint, and M1 Finance to name a few.
If we go to their pricing tier, we can see that their basic service begins at $1 per month:
With that, you get the Automated investing where they round up the charge and invest the difference
Then, for $2 per month, you get access to all of that, plus Acorns Later — which is their IRA.
And finally…for $3 per month, you’ll get access to their checking account with debit card.
So overall, looking through everything on Acorns and spending way too much time on this…here are my thoughts and what I REALLY think of it:
Acorns simplifies investing and making it incredibly easy, to the point where you don’t need to think about it. The concept of rounding up is clever, it’s gimmicky, and I can see how it works. If Americans aren’t going to think about investment, they can just invest on Autopilot without making any difference whatsoever except for setting up an Acorns account. So from that perspective, I really like it.
HOWEVER…what I consider a negative for Acorns, is that if you just want to straight up invest a small amount of money into an index fund…and what to do it for TOTALLY FREE, you can do that with Fidelity.
If you’re investing with more money, Acorns slowly becomes more and more worth it as the $1 fee becomes a smaller percentage of the total amount you have invested.
BUT…I’ll admit, using Acorns is WAY better than doing nothing. For people who just can’t seem to save and invest any money, or don’t really take an interest to investing…this is BY FAR better than the alternative of just not investing.
Just my opinion, not financial advice.
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I don’t get it don’t you get the acorns linked to checking bank account ? Why do I need a debit card
How much % do they charge if you decide to use the savings or cash out if it isn't for you? Do you actually have access to the $ if needed for emergencies?
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I’m currently investing with Acorns. Can I go negative or even owe money to Acorns while investing with them ?
Which fidelity app is he speaking about?
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If you are a college student how should you go about signing up?
By the way I would really like to hear more about expense ratios on dividend funds! Could you make a video of that please?
I am starting to use Acorn right now as an 18 year old college student. Let's see how it goes.
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uumm… are we really discussing a one dollar a month charge? If anyone here is concerned about that cost, please god do not get involved in any kind of investing. You need help, real help. Start by maybe having a job? Cuz idk how the hell anyone is even batting an eye at a 1$ fee.
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I never got the fee on this tbh. I’m paying them, to make and lose my money and make money from my money that I let them borrow? Shouldn’t they be paying me? Lol
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its now $3/month for the basic, need to delete this app its an absolute scam
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Acorns was a great start for me, I was the type of person to blow my paycheck and not save anything. Having acorns being an extra layer to making access to that money much more tidious. I now have actual money saved that is working for me!
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So what I got from this..Unless you've got 3k..your wasting your time. Got it. (Get 3k!)
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Even with the current $3 fee per month, $3 over a 40 years is $1440 total to have the account running… thats a small figure imo when my account is predicted to increase a couple hundred thousand in profits. What do you think?
Thanks for the review. Much appreciated.