Recommendations for a robo-advisor or other low maintenance investment plan?

Has anyone here used any services such as Wealthfront, Betterment, or anyhting like that to invest some of their money? My wife and I are considering how we can diversify our investments, and I'm intrigued by the idea of these services.

I'm wondering if anyone here has any experiences with investing with these "robo-advisor" investment platforms. I wonder if it's even worth it for me. I figure I would just put a small chunk of change into one as a deposit, then have some of my paycheck go to it every month and see what happens.

Anyone here want to chime in? I'm up for other suggestions also. I just want to see how I can save some of my money a little differently, so to speak

Just invest in index funds.  Vanguard has the lowest cost funds around.

dopa345 said:

Just invest in index funds. Vanguard has the lowest cost funds around.

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We've been leaning towards that as well. After some research, we found out that Charles Schwab is about to start their own robo-investor service. I want to see what that's about first.

I've been using betterment for putting general money away and have been funding a Roth IRA through there for a few years.

http://investorjunkie.com/8745/betterment-review/

Dokstarr said:

I've been using betterment for putting general money away and have been funding a Roth IRA through there for a few years.

http://investorjunkie.com/8745/betterment-review/

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Thanks for the article. Did you consider other services besides Betterment? If so, why did you pick it in the end? I'm only asking because Wealthfront appealed to me more initially.

Vanguard Index funds or ETFs.  Easy peasy

Here is a idea I just implemented for my wifes IRA.

The 3 Fund portfolio