List of Investment Options Available in the Stash App

This post isn't a formal review of the Stash Invest app (aka simply "Stash"), but in brief I'll say the app features the ability to invest in mostly ETFs with as little as $5. It allows you to buy partial shares of a handful of investment products - so you get to specify the dollar amount you want to invest, rather than being limited to the price per share of the actual fund.

There are no trading fees, but they do charge $1 per month (taken from your bank account, not from your investments) for accounts with less than $5000 invested. Above $5K they'll start taking 0.25%. Very reasonable, and if you make more than 1 trade a year, you could end up saving money compared to other companies that charge between $5-$10 per trade. This makes it easy to keep adding small amounts of money as you wish, rather than saving up to make your expensive trade worthwhile.

So I mentioned there are a handful of investment products to choose from in the app. They are all given catchy names and plain English descriptions - but sometimes I find myself just wanting to browse the underlying funds themselves. A couple of them I already owned in my Roth IRA and didn't realize it because the more descriptive name didn't sound much like what the actual fund description had.

So, here is a list of the funds that match up to each of the more millennial-friendly names that you see in the app.

Stash Name	Real Name	Ticker Symbol	Expense Ratio**
Do the Right Thing	iShares MSCI USA ESG Select Scl Indx Fnd	KLD	0.50%
Home Sweet Home	SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF	XHB	0.35%
Data Defenders	First Trust NASDAQ CEA Cybersecurity ETF	CIBR	0.60%
Clean & Green	iShares S&P Global Clean Energy Index Fd	ICLN	0.47%
Defending America	iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF	ITA	0.43%
Live Long & Prosper	Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund	XLV	0.15%
Small but Mighty	Vanguard Small-Cap ETF	VB	0.09%
Water the World	PowerShares Water Resources ETF	PHO	0.62%
Robots Rising	Global Robotics and Automation Index ETF	ROBO	0.95%
Equality Works	Workplace Equality ETF	EQLT	0.75%
Slow & Steady	PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility	SPLV	0.25%
Park my Cash	PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active ETF	MINT	0.35%
Moderate Mix	iShares S&P Moderate Allocation Fund ETF	AOM	0.29%
Copy the Experts	Global X Guru Index ETF	GURU	0.75%
Roll with Buffett*	Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Class B	BRK.B	--
Aggressive Mix	iShares Core Growth Allocation ETF	AOR	0.30%
Conservative Mix	iShares Core Conservative Allocation ETF	AOK	0.28%
Delicious Dividends	Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF	SCHD	0.07%
Blue Chips	Vanguard Mega Cap ETF	MGC	0.11%
Internet Titans	First Trust DJ Internet Index Fund (ETF)	FDN	0.57%
Enjoy Yourself	PowerShares Dynamic Leisure and Entertainment Portfolio	PEJ	0.63%
American Innovators	Vanguard Information Technology ETF	VGT	0.12%
On Cloud Nine	First Trust ISE Cloud Computing Index Fund	SKYY	0.60%
Wireless Wonders	Vanguard Telecommunication Services ETF	VOX	0.12%
Retail Therapy	SPDR S&P Retail ETF	XRT	0.35%
Social Media Mania	Global X Social Media Index ETF	SOCL	0.65%
Money Machines	Vanguard Financials ETF	VFH	0.12%
Global Citizen	Vanguard Total World Stock ETF	VT	0.18%

* The only individual stock available to purchase through Stash at this time
** Expense ratio as of 11/20/2015

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