Robo advisors are becoming a popular alternative way to get started with investing when you have very little money to start. This presentation introduces you to a mobile phone app: Stash
2. Can you really starting investing
with just $5?
And get a well diversified
set of stock and bonds to start?
The simple answer is yes.
3. Robo–Advisors
• Automates Your Investing
• Have Low Minimums
• Charge Low Fees
• Can Be a Starting Point
• Algorithms automatically
make minor adjustments
to keep your portfolio
balanced and on track,
based on preferences
you have selected.
4. How Stash Works
Stash is just one of
many new products
available from your
mobile phone.
5. • Unlike most Robo-
Advisors, you are
guided to a set of
funds, but you are
still free to make
your own
adjustments.
6. Stash “Ideas”
Stash provides you a
wide range of investment
“ideas” with labels that
help you to easily match
fund selections to your
preferences.
7. Automate Deposits
• The single best thing you can
do is set up an automated
investment to your account.
• It’s basically set it and forget it.
• This is really simple investing.
• Overtime your investment
grows.
8. Investments Are ETFs
• Exchange Traded Funds or
ETFs frequently are used to
track various indexes of stocks,
bonds and/or other investments.
• For example, one “idea” is
Delicious Dividends. You can
invest in the underlying fund
• The Schwab US Dividend
Equity ETT. A passive index
fund of US stocks with a history
of paying dividends.
9. Watch Your Balance Grow
• With Stash you can track
your account balance over
time.
• Starting with just $50 in
Feb. my account has
grown to over $528 in July.
• This includes automated
deposits, new deposits and
reinvested dividends.
10. My Stash Account Growth
Total return of 5.64%
Total returns $44.40 in Dividends
and Capital Gains• Opened account with a $50
deposit.
• Added $100 and started an
automatic transfer of $25 a
week.
• Dividends started at .95 cents
and increased to $1.32 on an
a balance of $152.28
• Invested in:
• Blue Chip Fund
• Delicious Dividends
• Park My Cash
• Risk Profile - Moderate
Blue bar = Deposits
Green bar = Account Growth
11. Forecasting Your Balances
• One additional feature is a
projection of how much
your account will be worth
in 1 year, 5 years, and 10
years.
• You can also adjust this
based on changes to
monthly deposits.
14. Floyd Saunders
Author: Really Simple Investing, Family Financial
Freedom, College Without Ramen Noodles, Figuring
Out Wall Street and other books
Saunders Learning Group, provide educational
resources to the financial services industry
and offers unbiased product free seminars on
financial planning, money management and
investing.
SLG is based in Newton, KS.
Since 1996 we have providing clients with
personal Money Management and Investing
training tailored to individual circumstances
and objectives rather than advisor incentives
or commissions.
Our workshops are product free – We only
provide education.
Contact us at: info@reallysimpleinvesting.com
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