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"Educating Rico": Individual Investing

Rico has an index fund and a tax-deferred retirement account. Now, he turns his attention to individual investing. In our latest installment of Educating Rico, our hero surfs the sea of online brokers.

Our intrepid reporter / Sound Money producer Rico Gagliano, turns his attention to individual investing. (Photo: Vince Winkel)

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