Joanna Lawson | Wealthfront Blog https://www.wealthfront.com/blog Personal Finance & Investing Insights Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:05:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-wave-logo-transparent-hi-res-500x500.png Joanna Lawson | Wealthfront Blog https://www.wealthfront.com/blog 32 32 Ask Wealthfront: How Should I Get Started With Investing? https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/ask-wealthfront-start-investing/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:22:37 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=16952 Welcome to our Ask Wealthfront series, where we tackle your questions about personal finance and investing. Want to see your question answered here? Reach out to us on social media and we’ll try to address it in a future column. Note that this column has been updated to include Wealthfront’s Automated Bond Ladder, which launched […]

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]]> How Should I Save for Short-Term vs. Long-Term Goals? https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/short-term-long-term-savings/ Mon, 09 Oct 2023 23:33:06 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=13817 When you think about your financial future, you probably have three kinds of goals: short-term goals, like a vacation you plan to take later this year, near-term goals, like a down payment for a house, and long-term goals, like sending a child to college or retiring. In order to give yourself the best chance of […]

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]]> What Fees Do Banks Charge and How Can I Avoid Them? https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/bank-fees-and-how-to-avoid-them/ Thu, 08 Sep 2022 22:14:46 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=13177 When it comes to your savings, account fees are a bad thing. Fees can eat away at your wealth over time and are essentially negative earnings. Unfortunately, many financial institutions charge a broad range of fees on checking, savings, and cash accounts. They do this for two main reasons: one, according to our estimate, banks need […]

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