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Wealthfront Announces New Research-Backed Stock Collections To Help Clients Invest in Categories like Artificial Intelligence, Dividend Stocks, and more

Clients can now access more than 45 unique stock collections created by the company’s Investment Team.

Wealthfront Launches Highly Anticipated Automated Bond Portfolio With A 5.48% Blended 30-Day SEC Yield

The latest addition to the company’s product suite brings much-needed innovation and ease of use to bonds.

Investors Can Now Buy Individual Stocks and Discover New Investment Opportunities with Wealthfront

Wealthfront’s stock investing offers zero commissions, fractional shares, curated stock collections, and requires just $1 to get started.

Wealthfront Adds Marketing Powerhouse Jaleh Bisharat to Board of Directors

Bisharat brings over 30 years of executive and marketing experience growing startups into enduring consumer brands

Wealthfront Opens Its Investment Platform To Enable More Investment Choices For Clients

The company will enable clients to build their own portfolios and edit existing portfolios and is also exploring adding crypto options as well

Wealthfront Delivers on Self-Driving Money™ Vision, Changing the Way We Manage Money Forever

Self-Driving Money™ will be a powerful engine to help young investors build meaningful wealth and remove the deep stress associated with money

Wealthfront Speeds Up Money Movement from the Wealthfront Cash Account

Money can now be invested into the market within minutes from a Wealthfront Cash Account

Wealthfront Adds Additional Automation to Make Money Movement Effortless

Clients can now offload even more of their savings strategy and have Wealthfront do the work of moving money between accounts.

Wealthfront Adds Former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair and Former Comptroller of Currency Thomas Curry to Banking Advisory Group

Bair and Curry bring their extensive experience in the banking industry to Wealthfront as the company builds out its nextgen banking service for Millennials

Wealthfront Launches First Self-Driving Money™ Service

Autopilot automates your savings plan so you can remove the stress of manually monitoring accounts and moving money

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Wealthfront in the news


Wealthfront Launches Robo for Bonds

With a current standardized yield of 5.48%, the new account type offers higher returns than most high-yield savings accounts, but is more liquid than certificates of deposit or I bonds.


Why Brokerage Accounts Are So Generous Right Now

Last month Wealthfront raised the advertised rate on its cash account to 4.3% from 4.05%, passing on all of the most recent central bank increases to customers for the second time in a row.


Wealthfront to Offer Trading of Individual Stocks, Fractional Shares

Wealthfront, a pioneering robo-advisor specializing in providing younger investors with curated portfolios composed of index funds, is now allowing users to buy and sell individual stocks as well as fractional shares of companies.


Tax loss harvesting, quantified

In aggregate, Wealthfront has harvested some $3.2 billion in losses. Almost half of that — $1.5 billion — took place in 2022, as stock and bond markets alike swooned in the face of aggressive Fed rate hikes.