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Select and manage your investments along with tax insights you won’t get anywhere else.

Select and manage your investments along with tax insights you won’t get anywhere else.

Get a globally diversified portfolio and we’ll handle all trading, rebalancing, and tax management for you.

Pick your own stocks and ETFs. We automate portfolio rebalancing, dividend reinvesting, and taxes for you.

Choose from thousands of stocks and ETFs with Betterment by your side.
Don’t let traditional savings accounts keep your money from growing. Whether saving for an emergency fund or a big goal, our high-yield cash account is 10x the national average.
Eligible cash is FDIC insured up to $8 million (joint) or $4 million (individual) at our program banks. subject to certain conditions. That's 16x what most firms offer.
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Betterment helps you manage your money through cash management, guided investing, and retirement planning. We are a fiduciary, which means we act in your best interest.
We'll ask a bit about you when you sign up. We'll also gather information when you connect your outside accounts. Then, we'll help you set financial goals and set you up with investment portfolios for each goal.
For your long-term financial needs (like retirement, next year's vacation, or a down payment), our investment strategy utilizes low-cost ETFs (exchange-traded funds) and an adjustable risk profile based on your goal type and how long you plan to invest.
For your daily saving and spending, you can use our cash management products that include Checking (which is offered by nbkc bank, Member FDIC) and Cash Reserve, a high-yield cash account.
Customer support team members are available five days per week to answer questions about your account.
If you want in-depth financial advice, you can talk to a licensed advisor by phone for an additional cost. Our Premium plan provides you with unlimited access and costs an additional 0.40% on your invested balances (with a minimum investing account balance requirement of $100,000 across eligible balances).
Betterment Securities is a Member of SIPC, which protects securities of its members up to $500K (including $250K for claims for cash). Explanatory brochure available upon request or at www.sipc.org. Accounts are subject to market risks and changes. These risks are inherent in investing are tradeoffs you make to pursue investment returns.
Eligible cash is FDIC-insured up to $8 million (joint) and $4 million (individual) in FDIC insurance once funds are deposited into our program banks, subject to certain conditions.
Funds deposited into Checking are FDIC-insured up to $250,000 for individual accounts and up to $500K per depositor for joint accounts, provided by nbkc bank, Member FDIC. Explore further details about FDIC insurance.
Our team of investing experts make decisions about our portfolio strategies and fund selection with the help of an external committee of economists, PhDs, and industry experts.
More than just a portfolio management team, our experts work to develop improvements to our Tax Smart technology, our cash analysis tools, and other advanced strategies.