If drumming is precisely what your kid wants to get into and you’re not sure about the noise, there are some incredible electronic kits on the market. They allow the drummer to play as loudly as they want because only they can hear it through headphones. Drumming is an excellent avenue ...
stocks tend to be high-risk, high-return investments. Most bonds, on the other hand, are lower-risk and sport lower average returns. Vanguard also has a Total US Bond Market Index Fund under the ticker symbolBNDthat you can consider adding to the mix if you want to be more conservative....
While the investment performance of the Acorns portfolios looks decent, we need to compare it against something to get a complete understanding of their returns. So I included the S&P 500 Index with the returns you see above. As you can see, the S&P 500 outperforms all of the Acorns portfo...
An investor unimpressed by bond returns and reluctant to get into high-yield may just want to keep playing in U.S. stocks, which S&P Capital IQ thinks will rise modestly next year. But investors who want extra security will find bonds paying at least a little more income after years of n...