Managing Your Money

Budgeting is like dieting—shaping your financial life around restriction. It's narrow, day-to-day, micro. Money management is like a healthy lifestyle—shaping your life around a holistic look at your finances and goals.

On Guns and Investing: Our Response

The Betterment SRI portfolio represents a reduction in exposure to weapons manufacturers compared to conventional portfolios, but it isn’t perfect. There’s a good reason for that.

Achieving Presence: An Interview with Social Psychologist Amy Cuddy

Life is full of challenges, both personally and professionally. Today’s interview with Amy Cuddy is the perfect example. It took a full year to…

Worried Market Watchers: What (Not) To Do Next

When you hear about big percentage losses in the stock market, you're bound to feel butterflies. Listen in for some brief advice on how to think practically about your investment goals during the market turbulence.

Forget Your Resolution. Ask Yourself How You’ll Fail in 2019 Instead

Instead of setting a New Year’s resolution, try taking a different approach. Try considering what you could do to destroy your resolution in order to help reveal potential pitfalls so you can safeguard against them.

Is Financial Planning Different For Women?

For many women, financial planning is a daunting task that poses risk in the long term if overlooked.

How Banks Fail in Helping You Save Money

You may not realize it, but our financial lives are shaped by a great divide: banking vs. investment managers. In between lies most people’s pinnacle challenge: saving for the future.

Manage Your Cash the Modern Way With Two-Way Sweep

Manage your cash the modern way—effortlessly. Try out Two-Way Sweep, our latest in cash management technology.

What a Trip to the Casino Can Teach You About Investing and Risk

Learn the ins and outs of how gambling works from a quantitative investor, and use it to your advantage in investing for the long term.

How One Behavioral Scientist Optimizes His Monthly Cashflow

Take a look inside how Betterment’s behavioral scientist, Dan Egan, manages his monthly cashflow. Keep in mind, this is purely his method; not Betterment’s advice or suggestion.

Smart Saver Gets Smarter with Cash Analysis

Cash analysis is Betterment’s tool for helping you decide how much extra cash you have to move into Smart Saver.

Understanding Two-Way Sweep: Automating Cash Management

Our newest automation aims to help make cash management easier, by seamlessly moving your extra cash from your linked checking account to Smart Saver—and back when you need it.