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If you’re a Motif user and you’re taking this moment to consider alternatives, we’d love it if you’d consider M1 for 3 main reasons.
Understanding the way our brains push us toward certain behaviors can make it easier to make financial decisions that lead to positive long-term outcomes.
M1 has a new look: introducing dark mode, improved accessibility, streamlined workflows, and a cleaner interface.
Increasing the minimum buys will reduce costs for you and for us and will enable us to devote more time and resources to improving M1 Invest.
I hope everyone is staying safe as we all deal with coronavirus. We’re obviously living through an unprecedented time, which brings a lot of uncertainty….
We’re excited to share that Investopedia named M1 as one of the “Best Roth IRA Accounts.”
It’s been a pretty crazy couple of weeks for investors in the markets and for some of our brokerage peers. If all this has you a little rattled, we understand, and we’re here to offer our perspective.
The coronavirus has been headline news for a few weeks now. I was on the blue line train this morning headed to work in Chicago…
The market has been going down the last few days, but what does our data show? Take a look at how M1 investors are approaching the recent down days.
M1 just passed a big milestone—with growth powered by worth of mouth. Read on to see how we passed $1,000,000,000 on the platform.
We passed $1 billion on our platform. Thank you for trusting us and for putting your money to work with M1—we couldn’t have reached this milestone without you.
EmojPies anyone… One of our good pals on Reddit pointed out that you can add Emojis to the title of your Pie. Yes, it’s true….
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