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Wealthfront Named One Of NerdWallet’s 2020 “Best-Of” Award Winners

The nextgen banking service wins Best Robo-Advisor for Cash Management.

Wealthfront Launches Cash Account With 2.24% Interest Rate And FDIC Insurance Up To $1 Million

The addition of a cash account is another important milestone towards delivering Self-Driving Money.

Wealthfront Launches Free Financial Planning

Wealthfront un-bundles its automated planning to help 90 million millennials build a comprehensive financial plan.

Wealthfront Research Shows Clients Who Regularly Engage With Automated Financial Advice Save More

Clients who engage monthly with Wealthfront’s automated advice engine, Path, save almost 400% more than the national savings rate.

Wealthfront Cuts Risk Parity Expense Ratio in Half to 0.25%

Wealthfront’s Risk Parity Fund’s expense ratio is now lower than nearly 80% of ETFs on the market.

Wealthfront Launches New Financial Planning Service: Home Planning for Path

The addition of the company’s third financial planning service continues to widen the feature gap among competitors.

Tiger Global Management Leads Wealthfront’s $75 Million Financing Round

Additional capital will fuel Wealthfront’s growth as the financial advisor of choice for young professionals and families for decades to come.

Wealthfront Launches Advanced Indexing to Deliver Clients Higher After-Tax Returns at No Incremental Cost

Backtesting shows Advanced Indexing could add almost 1% to the annual after-tax return on the U.S. stock portion of a client’s portfolio.

Wealthfront To Launch 529 College Savings Plan In Partnership With The State Of Nevada And Ascensus College Savings

Wealthfront becomes the first automated investment service to launch a 529 plan to help families in the United States save for college.

Wealthfront Raises $64 Million in Round Led by Spark Capital Growth

The company with over $1.5 billion in client assets under management now has $100 million in cash reserves to fuel growth and serve millennial investors.

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Robo Advisers Keep Adding On Services

Wealthfront is launching what it calls “self-driving money,” a suite of services that will allocate every dollar that comes into an account in accordance with rules set by the account holder.


Millions of Americans May Be Ready to Break Up With Their Bank

Dan Carroll, co-founder and chief strategy officer of Wealthfront, explains his estimate that 50 million bank customers in the U.S. are at risk of ditching their current bank.


Wealthfront now holds $20 billion in assets under management

Wealthfront is increasingly positioning itself as a viable threat to incumbents, and offering market-leading products that will help the fintech remain successful over time.


Natfluence Feature: Dan Carroll

Dan and his co-founder Andy Rachleff have a deeply held passion for righting the wrongs of the financial industry and through Wealthfront they hope to create a financial system that favors people, not institutions.