Idle cash optimization:
What your uninvested cash could earn

Idle cash is money sitting uninvested, often earning little, while the rest of your portfolio works.

PortfolioPilot shows how much of your portfolio is idle cash and what investing it could add a year, in your free assessment. On Gold, an email alert flags cash earning little and suggests investing it or a high-yield money market fund.

Feature basics

Which plan you need
Idle cash in your portfolio assessment. Included in the Free plan
Idle cash email alerts. Part of Gold
Shows
Your idle cash and what it could add a year
Alerts
Email when cash is earning little

What does idle cash cost?

Idle cash in a hypothetical demo portfolio.

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PortfolioPilot idle cash optimization demo. Idle cash in a hypothetical demo portfolio.

The portfolio is hypothetical, and all figures are for demonstrative purposes only. Nothing shown is a recommendation to buy or sell any security.

How it works

How idle cash works in PortfolioPilot

Three steps from your accounts to the answer.

Step 1

Add your accounts

Connect brokerages, 401(k)s and IRAs, upload a statement, or enter holdings by hand.

Step 2

Read your assessment

It shows idle cash and what it could add.

Step 3

Act on it

Where to invest suggests what to buy with it.

What you get

How does PortfolioPilot handle idle cash?

It points it out, in dollars.

The share

How much of the portfolio is cash.

What it could add

At the portfolio's own expected return.

Email alert

On Gold, when cash earns only a little.

Where to invest

Suggestions for what to buy with it, on Gold.

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Questions

Questions about idle cash

Short answers here, with a link to the full help center article where one exists.

How is the yearly amount estimated?

At the portfolio's expected return.

Does it move my cash?

No.

Which plan includes alerts?

Gold and above.

Is the assessment free?

Yes.