On April 22, millions of people around the world will participate in Earth Day-related activities. Some people will march to raise awareness, some will plant trees, and some will take the time to clean up plastic and trash that has been carelessly discarded.
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If you just landed a new job, well done! Whether it’s your first job or your fifth, starting the next chapter of your career journey with a new company and fresh challenges can be an exciting time.
It also can be a good opportunity to review your finances, put together a new budget, and work toward some monetary milestones, like paying down credit cards or student loan debt.
Why now? As your life changes, your needs and expenses likely will change as well. So when you’re starting a new job, it might be a fitting time to take a look at where you stand and where you want to go.
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Unlike other ways to invest, SoFi gives you more than one option of how to do it. Plus,
we’re built to grow with you and your goals—no matter your skill level at the start.
That’s right—$0 in transaction fees and $0 in management fees.
Do-it-yourself with active investing or take it easy with automated investing.
SoFi is built for those who learn by doing—because the fastest way to become an investor is to start investing.
Not-so-newsflash: fees are frustrating and they keep people from investing. It’s why we charge $0 in SoFi transaction and management fees. So there’s no reason not to start investing.
Whether you’re trading full time or just on the side—if you
can swipe right, you can swap stocks. With active investing,
we make it easy to start making trades on your own.
Not everyone wants to follow the market closely. It’s why automated investing makes it easy to a build a diversified, personalized portfolio—even if you’re new to investing.2
Thinking about buying a home? Just graduated and curious about how to invest while paying off student loan debt? We can help with that. SoFi members get one-on-one access to financial advisors so you can make a plan to tackle your goals.
Family debt is never easy to tackle, but if a sibling is struggling with a significant amount of student loan debt, it can seem even more overwhelming. Should you help pay off your sibling’s student loans if you are financially secure enough to do it?
When offering money to a family member, it’s important to remember that doing so could change your relationship, even if you are offering to help reduce student loan debt for a sibling.
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Due to rapidly advancing technology, today’s college students often face decisions that prior generations would never have needed to consider. This includes the use of social media and its effects, both positive and negative.
As you’ve probably figured out, there are numerous benefits to using social media to discover information, connect with friends and family , job hunt and so much more. But, there are also big buckets of negatives, ranging from wasting time, to false information being posted, cyberbullying and more.
Social media posts and profiles can have an impact, positive or negative, before you’ve even been accepted to your college of choice, and they can also both help and hurt your efforts to get a specific job, or advance in your career.
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