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UBS Agrees to Acquire Wealthfront to Deliver Digital Wealth Management Offering to Millennial and Gen Z Affluent Investors

Wealthfront’s state-of-the-art, digital only platform tailored to next gen affluent investors will accelerate UBS’s growth ambitions in the US

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

Wealthfront Adds Debit Card And Checking Features To Its Cash Account

The company continues to reinvent banking and solidify its position as the primary financial relationship for its clients

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

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

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Wealthfront in the news


Best Robo Advisors of 2022

Best for Investors with Multiple Goals: Wealthfront allows investors to plan for multiple investment goals and offers an extensive list of investment options with some ability to customize choices.


Robo Advisers Target Young Adults Interested in ESG Investing

Investors can start with Wealthfront’s Classic or SRI portfolio and customize it by adding funds to support the causes they care most about, or removing funds that they don’t want.


How Direct Indexing Could Work for You

Malkiel, Wealthfront’s chief investment officer, says that tax loss harvesting is one of the only exceptions he makes to his passive-index-investing advice: “I absolutely believe in direct indexing. It is really very helpful in times like this, when the market has declined so sharply.”


UBS, Wealthfront Agree to Terminate Planned Merger

$1.4 billion deal announced in January was billed as a way to help bank reach younger investors seeking wealth advice online