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The Offer
- M1 Finance is offering a .5% bonus when you ACAT transfer your brokerage or IRA from an outside brokerage into M1.
Minimum $10,000 transfer required ($50 bonus). Max $25,000 bonus ($5M transfer).
The Fine Print
- Promotion Period: January 1, 2025 (12:00 AM EST) through January 31, 2025 (11:59 PM EST).
- During the Promotion Period, this promotional offer is valid for new and existing M1 customers who successfully complete and settle a Brokerage Account Transfer (“BAT”) of at least $10,000 in aggregate across your account(s) (“Transfer Account Value”) (together, the “Promotion”). The appropriate M1 account must successfully receive settled funds prior to expiry of the Promotion Period (e.g., IRA to IRA). Any unsuccessful BAT will be deemed ineligible (including but not limited to, any incorrect instructions, or unsettled funds). This offer is non-transferable, and not valid with any of the following: (i) internal transfers, (ii) ACH deposits (bank transfers), (iii) wire transfers, or (iv) direct 401(k), 403(b) and/or 457(b) rollovers.
- Cryptocurrency is not eligible for BAT. Additionally, any security transferred via BAT that is neither traded nor carried by M1 will be automatically liquidated upon receipt, including but not limited to Mutual Funds and Over-The-Counter securities. M1 reserves the right to automatically liquidate any securities without any notice.
- If you satisfy the aforementioned conditions, M1 will make a one-time deposit equal to 0.5% (one-half of one-percent) of the total aggregate Transfer Account Value successfully completed across your account(s) (“Promotional Payout”) not to exceed $25,000 (the “Payout Maximum”), into the cash balance of your M1 taxable investment account (the “Payment Account1”) within thirty (30) days of the Promotion Period expiry (the “Payout Date”). However, the Promotional Payout can only be deposited into your Payment Account, and the following accounts are ineligible to receive any Promotional Payout: any retirement (IRA, 401(k)), custodial or trust accounts. The “Transfer Account Value” is determined as the net accounts transfer value (defined below) of all holdings and cash transferred during this Promotion Period, in aggregate, on the day the transfer is successfully completed to the qualifying/matching account(s). Net accounts transfer value of securities is calculated utilizing the quantity of settled shares and the closing price on such share(s) settlement date. The Transfer Account Value must remain equal to, or greater than, the value after the net transfer was made (minus any losses due to trading, market volatility or margin debit balances) at time of the Payout Date in order to be eligible for the Promotional Payout. However, reallocation of any Transfer Account Value funds transferred for this Promotion either externally (e.g., another broker, or bank), or internally to any other M1 services (e.g., M1 High-Yield Savings Account, M1 Cash Account), prior to January 31, 2026 (e.g., 365 days after Promotion Period expiry) (the “Holding Period”) will disqualify you from the Promotion and any Promotional Payout will be returned back to M1 without any further notice to you (e.g., via liquidation, direct transfer, ACAT return, etc). Any transfer of the Promotional Payout back to M1 will be reflected on your then-applicable monthly statement for your Payment Account. The Promotion Payout deposited by M1 is a fixed cash value and does not constitute stock or any other security, nor is it a recommendation to buy any specific stock or other security. M1 Finance may charge the account for the cost of the offer at its sole discretion. M1 reserves the right to restrict or revoke this offer at any time without any notice. This is not an offer or solicitation in any jurisdiction where we are not authorized to do business.
Our Verdict
Getting .5% on a brokerage is pretty good, though – for comparison sake – we’ve seen 1% with Robinhood and 2% with WeBull. Still, when compared to standard brokerage bonuses it’s better than most. Just note that it does have the longer one-year holding period.
You can see M1’s prior brokerage bonus (now expired) in this post.
Looks like retirement accounts are NOT eligible, per terms: “the following accounts are ineligible to receive any Promotional Payout: any retirement (IRA, 401(k)), custodial or trust accounts”
Also: “A Payment Account cannot be a retirement, trust or custodial account of any kind.”
You need to open a Brokerage account – into which their Bonus “payout” would be made-to. IRAs definitely eligible/qualify for the bonus – just that: you would need to open a M1 brokerage account also to catch their “bonus payout” into that Brokerage account (I am sure you will get your 1099 for this bonus 🙂
M1 lost a lot of customers when they started charging a $3 monthly fee for their base product for people with under $10,000 in assets. For comparison, Robinhood Gold is $5 a month and gives 3% Roth match + $1,000 free margin. Now M1’s trying to attract people with over $10k with $50.
I used them when I started investing because they were all about instilling good habits to early investors. It’s a decent product, but I’m never going back after them turning their back to newer investors.
This is fair!
I’ve used M1 for years now and like it but never faced the fee hurdle. Not insignificant fee FWIW
What M1 should do is rebrand as premium offering (they did get rid of M1 + thing so maybe that’s partly why) and give out more generous offers or at least ACAT refunds for people transferring in above 10K
Sofi does just that essentially, and they won my business for my IRA accounts that way (I left Schwab, the interface is hot garbage)
Sofi is far better with its tiered offer. Also refunded ACAT fee. Going through Rakuten Active Invest also nets extra 50
(I transferred in two IRA accounts)
Sofi has a 2 year holding period with lower bonuses. How is it better?
It’s a tiered offer that depending on how much you’re transferring comes out to a much higher percentage. The ACAT refund is also significant
The 1 percent match on contributions after is also generous
Yes, it does have a holding period. But it’s a better offer as these brokerage offers go
Keep in mind that apparently it expired December 31st though page is still up
https://www.sofi.com/invest/transfer-start/
I’ve got M1 and have used it as my main account (taxable brokerage) for years now. No issues
This doesn’t come close to the transfer offers they used to hand out like candy. One person I referred about a year ago got 250 with ANY transfer. As did I for referring. That was a very short lived offer suffice it to say
Which Sofi offer? I didn’t know they had a brokerage offer.
1% match on IRA contributions and employer retirement account rollovers:
https://www.sofi.com/invest/ira-match/
Tiered brokerage transfer bonus:
https://www.sofi.com/invest/transfer-start/
2 *YEAR* holding requirement for the SoFi tiered brokerage bonus!! No thanks.
I’ve been debating the Citi offer that was just extended, although I cringe regarding the thought of investing with them again. Supposedly their processes have gotten slightly less archaic, but it’s still far from streamlined and/or quick.
https://banking.citi.com/cbol/investment/cpwm/default.htm?BT_TX=1&ProspectID=91877ABA01454BE5A1DCFBEF95E0C5A7
Thank you!
This is the offer. Though I saw in fine print that it expired 31st December
Page is still up
https://www.sofi.com/invest/transfer-start/
According to a human agent via chat, the offer has expired.
In additional to signup bonus, sofi has referral bonus via friends link. (Click my name for refer links)
One year hold, and monthly fee, no thank you
M1 Finance is a shit platform, and they keep trying to add new fees. Hard pass.
“M1 Finance may charge the account for the cost of the offer at its sole discretion.” Yikes.
Minimum $10,000 transfer required ($500 bonus)
I think it should be $50
I think he meant $100,000 min.
No, minimum transfer is $10K, but the post needs to be edited to say $50 bonus
Ah, good that I wasn’t the only one to wonder about this.
Updated now, thx
I think there is a typo, the $10,000 transfer would be only a $50 not $500 bonus
Fixed thx