How to Invest With Your HSA, and Why
It’s hard enough to motivate yourself to save for retirement, but saving for your future medical costs? How responsible does a person have to be? Thankfully, health savings accounts, or…
Alana Benson
Alana Benson is an investing writer who joined NerdWallet in 2019. Since then, she has written extensively about socially responsible and ESG investing, financial advice and beginner investing topics. Previously, she wrote two books on identity theft and several young adult nonfiction titles. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, MSN, Yahoo Finance, MarketWatch and others.
Posts by Alana Benson:
Smart Money Podcast: Nerdy Deep Dives: Investing, Part 3
Welcome to NerdWallet’s Smart Money podcast, where we answer your real-world money questions. For the last couple of weeks we’ve been diving deep into investing to talk over what you…
Smart Money Podcast: Nerdy Deep Dives: Investing, Part 2
Welcome to NerdWallet’s Smart Money podcast, where we answer your real-world money questions. Over three weeks, we’re diving deep into investing to talk through what you need to know about…
Smart Money Podcast: Nerdy Deep Dives: Investing, Part 1
Welcome to NerdWallet’s Smart Money podcast, where we answer your real-world money questions. For the next few weeks we’re diving deep into investing to teach you everything you need to…
529 Plans for College Savings: 529 Plans Listed By State
A 529 plan can be a great way to save for college, if you know the rules and how to optimize your investment. What is a 529 plan? A 529…
Best Stock Apps
Stock apps allow you to trade investments on the go. The best stock trading apps charge no commission and offer features similar to desktop platforms.
Greenwashing: What Is It?
“All natural,” “eco-friendly” and “green” — we’ve seen it all before. Food, home goods and clothing companies have all jumped on the sustainable bandwagon, and it’s not just because of…
Stablecoins: What They Are and How They Work
Gambling can be a good time, but bitcoin’s more than 50% drop in value in just a few months? That kind of gamble isn’t for everyone. Enter stablecoins: They have…
Bitcoin ETFs: What to Know
After years of wild ups and downs on cryptocurrency markets, bitcoin has made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange. On October 19, the financial firm ProShares launched the…
9 Best-Performing Clean Energy ETFs as of Fall 2021
The clean energy sector has been reinvigorated by a presidential administration excited about combating climate change. In April, President Biden announced a new goal of a 50% to 52% reduction…
