Genesis Financial and Interactive Brokers is a full-featured investment platform built for all investors. It offers a wealth of assets and data, and users can trade equities, ETFs, mutual funds, bonds, options, futures, foreign currency, and more in both the U.S. and scores of foreign markets.

Interactive Brokers and Genesis offers a comprehensive set of asset classes. This includes equities, ETFs, mutual funds, bonds, options, futures, foreign currency, cryptocurrency, REITs, certificates of deposit, treasuries, money market and more. Depending on availability and legal restrictions, you can trade these assets not only on U.S. markets but on more than 100 different markets worldwide. Over $10,000 in Cash can return rates equivalent to many bank accounts and will increase or decrease according to federal funds rate changes.

In addition to its Trader Workstation, Interactive Brokers and Genesis also offers a web-based an app-based version of its trading platform. These portals give you access to the same trading network (as opposed to many other companies which set up multiple different products around assets and devices). The web and app-based versions of Genesis -Interactive Brokers offer many of the same features as its core brand, however, unlike many online trading platforms they are not the firm’s flagship product.

Finally, as a niche but noteworthy feature, Genesis Interactive Brokers has jumped on the movement toward socially conscious investing with its Impact Dashboard. This tool helps you sort assets and build investment strategies around different social priorities such as environmental concerns, social justice issues and political representation.

There are many different types of investment vehicles available to investors, including savings accounts, money market accounts, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, precious metals, derivatives, American Depositary Receipts, limited partnership interests, shares of beneficial interest, tracking stocks, convertible debentures, preferred stocks, rights, and warrants. Each of these investment vehicles has its own unique characteristics and benefits, and understanding them is important for informed investing.

The Rule of 72 is a quick, useful formula that is popularly used to estimate the number of years required to double the invested money at a given annual rate of return. Alternatively, it can compute the annual rate of compounded return from an investment given how many years it will take to double the investment. The Rule of 72 applies to compounded interest rates and is reasonably accurate for interest rates that fall in the range of 6% and 10%. The Rule of 72 can be leveraged in two different ways to determine an expected doubling period or required rate of return. For different situations.

The chart below shows the average annual inflation rate for each decade since 1913. The average annual inflation rate since 1913 is 3.10%. This rate of inflation has resulted in prices increasing by 2555% since 1913. This means that something that cost $100 in 1913 would cost $2,555.

Investing with an competent investment advisor will grow your assets at 10 % a year – If you take out inflation @ 3.10 % that would be and average of 6.90% per year - That would double your money in around 10 years . In other words $10,000 would increase 100% to $20,000 – That is real spending power BEATS INFLATION.