What Is Investing?

What Is Investing? Investing is a way to increase the amount of money you have by putting it into financial products. These include bank accounts, money market accounts, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, precious metals and property. Anything that potentially increases in value can be an investment.

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JPMC Hops On Robo-Advisor Bus
JPMC Hops On Robo-Advisor Bus
December 21, 2017  |  Investments

JPMorgan Chase is launching a lower-cost online investment management tool this week: the robo-adviser. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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Chinese FinTech IPOs Don’t Dazzle Wall Street
Chinese FinTech IPOs Don’t Dazzle Wall Street
December 18, 2017  |  IPO

Newly listed Chinese FinTech companies in the U.S. are struggling on Wall Street, leaving investors with unexpected losses and posing as a setback to other...

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Kasisto Lands $17M, Plans Expansion
Kasisto Lands $17M, Plans Expansion
December 14, 2017  |  Investments

Kasisto, the creator of KAI, the conversational artificial intelligence (AI) platform for finance, announced news on Wednesday (Dec. 13) that it raised $17 million in...

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PayPal, Accel Back Fraud Detection Startup, Simility
PayPal, Accel Back Fraud Detection Startup, Simility
December 13, 2017  |  Investments

Simility, the fraud detection and risk management startup, has landed $17.5 million in funding. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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Bitcoin Reaches ‘Mania’ Phase As People Take Out Loans To Fund Token Purchases
Bitcoin Reaches ‘Mania’ Phase As People Take Out Loans To Fund Token Purchases
December 12, 2017  |  Bitcoin

Joseph Borg, president of the North American Securities Administrators Association warned on Tuesday (Dec. 12) that bitcoin has entered the “mania” phase, with some people...

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Big Banks Back Startup Menlo To Fight Phishing
Big Banks Back Startup Menlo To Fight Phishing
December 12, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

With a new cyberattack hitting the news on what seems to be a weekly basis, financial heavyweights are investing millions of dollars into a cybersecurity...

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Steam Just Says No To Bitcoin
Steam Just Says No To Bitcoin
December 07, 2017  |  Retail

Bitcoin (as of the time this article was written) was valued at more than $16,000 per unit, so perhaps there is no value going out...

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As Bitcoin Bubbles, Cassandra’s Chorus
As Bitcoin Bubbles, Cassandra’s Chorus
December 01, 2017  |  Bitcoin

What do you get when a group of esteemed observers and participants in the financial system — among them Nobel laureates and billionaires and not a...

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Former SEC Official Rails Against ICOs
Former SEC Official Rails Against ICOs
November 27, 2017  |  Blockchain

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have sprung up seemingly out of the blue to become the new go-to financing method for up-and-coming startups (often with less...

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