About iGrow Wealth
iGrow Wealth is an independent personal-finance publication. We write about money the way a friend who happens to know the subject would talk about it: clearly, without jargon, without selling you on anything, and with the math attached.
What we cover
Retirement planning, investing, mortgages and home buying, taxes, debt repayment, and budgeting. The questions a normal household actually has — not the lifestyle of the ultra-wealthy or the latest market drama.
Our point of view
- Time and consistency beat cleverness. Almost everything important in personal finance is decided by what you do for thirty years, not what you do this Tuesday.
- Index funds, in most cases. Active stock picking is fun and usually expensive. We will tell you when it is worth doing — which is rarely.
- Tax-advantaged accounts before taxable ones. The order of operations matters more than the picks inside.
- Insurance and emergency funds are part of the plan. A great portfolio with no buffer is one bad month from a forced sale.
- Plain English over precision. When a simpler explanation gets you 95% of the way there, we use it.
Who writes this
I'm an engineer with an MBA in finance. The topics on this site started as my own family's problem set: my wife and I are working to fund retirement, put two kids through college, and eventually buy ourselves the time and freedom to pursue the projects we'd choose rather than the ones that pay.
The articles here are the homework I've done to make those decisions — checked against real research, run through actual math, and written in the plain English I wish someone had used with me when I started. I'm not a financial advisor and I'm not selling you anything. I'm a person who got obsessed with personal finance because the stakes for my household are real, and I figured if I was going to do the work anyway, I might as well write it down.
How we are funded
Display ads and affiliate partnerships, both disclosed. Read the full breakdown on our affiliate disclosure page. We do not take payment for editorial coverage and do not allow advertisers to influence what we write.
How to reach us
Email [email protected]. We read every message and reply to most.
Corrections
If we get something wrong, we want to know. Email us at the address above and we will fix it and note the correction at the bottom of the article.