According to BillShrink.com, the average student spends about $1,000 on Spring Break. By the way, less than half of that $1,000 is spent on food and lodging, so guess where the rest of the money goes during party time? Getting an investment plan started as a student can be really difficult, especially if you are making money in part time jobs or have income coming in sporadically over the summertime. However, it is very important to your financial future that you begin getting some type of investing program in place so you can get use to saving money for your future. Here are three types of accounts you can open and add to that don’t require a huge minimum investment to open an account. ComputerShare.com – This is was the first place that I was able to get my oldest daughter into stock investing. When she was learning about topics like percentages in school, I thought being able to track ...
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Jan 30, 2013
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