New to investing? These five beginner-friendly apps offer education, automation and low-cost trades to get you started.

This beginner guide shows how to use Power Gauge step by step, along with common pitfalls and how to avoid them.

If you're a beginning investor looking for ways to make your money grow, you're not alone. Going it alone when learning to invest is a tried-and-true path. But everyone has to start investing money ...

Investing can feel intimidating to even seasoned pros, but it's especially the case for beginners. And most of it boils down to anxiousness over one key question: "What if I lose most of my ...

It's easier than ever to construct a well-diversified, ultra-low-cost portfolio with just a few good ETFs. A simple mix of the total U.S. stock market, dividend stocks, and investment-grade bonds give ...

Angelica Leicht is the senior editor for the Managing Your Money section for CBSNews.com, where she writes and edits articles on a range of personal finance topics. Angelica previously held editing ...

Matt Richardson is the senior managing editor for the Managing Your Money section for CBSNews.com. He writes and edits content about personal finance ranging from savings to investing to insurance.

So, you’re new to investing. It can be an incredibly difficult place to start. The market is completely overwhelming, and it can be hard to know whether to put a ton of cash in stocks or keep most of ...

One of the things that the ETF marketplace does best is to provide easy, low-cost access to almost any type of investment. Whether it's stocks, bonds, commodities, precious metals, individual ...