David Fortunato | Wealthfront https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/author/david/ Personal Finance & Investing Insights Thu, 08 May 2025 16:42:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-wave-logo-transparent-hi-res-500x500.png David Fortunato | Wealthfront https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/author/david/ 32 32 Welcoming Michelle Wilson To Our Board of Directors https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/michelle-wilson-board/ Thu, 08 May 2025 16:42:11 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=17665 At Wealthfront, we build tech-driven financial products that help you turn your savings into long-term wealth. We also put clients’ interests first in everything we do. This has been true since our founding, and we’re proud of how we’ve helped many clients achieve financial success. As we look to our next phase of product-led expansion […]

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]]> How Wealthfront Clients Have Responded to Recent Market Volatility https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/client-response-recent-volatility/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:35:20 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=17646 The past two weeks have been a rollercoaster for financial markets, driven largely by a flurry of announcements related to tariffs. However, many Wealthfront clients have taken the volatility in stride and treated this market environment as an opportunity.  Here are three takeaways showing how Wealthfront clients are responding to the market’s recent ups and […]

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]]> Millennial Net Wealth Is Expected To Reach $140 Trillion by 2045 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/oxford-economics-report/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:40:43 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=17639 When it comes to managing their money, millennials have long been underestimated. Headlines often doubt this generation’s ability to overcome the effects of the Great Recession and reach the same financial milestones as their parents. But at Wealthfront, we’ve never questioned their potential. In fact, we’ve built a profitable and growing business by creating smart […]

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]]> How Millennials Have Thrived in the Five Years Since Covid-19 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/millennial-finances-five-years-after-covid/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:38:42 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=17595 March 11, 2025, will mark five years since the World Health Organization proclaimed Covid-19 a pandemic. For many of us, life has changed significantly in that time, and so have our finances. Since March 2020 we’ve lived through a wide range of macroeconomic shifts: the onset of the pandemic brought a swift and sharp decline […]

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]]> Wealthfront’s Philosophy on Fees https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/philosophy-on-fees/ Thu, 08 Dec 2022 20:06:59 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=16109 At Wealthfront, we’re on a mission to build a financial system that favors people, not institutions. This mission informs every aspect of how we interact with clients, including how we charge fees for our products and services. Wealthfront’s fees are low, simple, transparent, and consistent. We’ve charged the same low, 0.25%  annual advisory fee with […]

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]]> Our Plans to Remain an Independent Company https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/our-plans-to-remain-an-independent-company/ Fri, 02 Sep 2022 20:30:11 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=15921 Today we announced that together with UBS we decided to terminate our pending acquisition and will instead remain an independent company. We are continuing to explore ways to work together in a partnership and UBS has given us $69.7 million in financing at a $1.4 billion valuation. I am incredibly excited about Wealthfront’s path forward […]

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]]> Wealthfront Has Agreed To Be Acquired by UBS https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wealthfront-has-agreed-to-be-acquired-by-ubs/ Wed, 26 Jan 2022 17:05:41 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=15560 I am excited to announce that Wealthfront has agreed to be acquired by one of the premier brands in wealth management, UBS, in a transaction valued at $1.4 billion. This partnership will be tremendously impactful in accelerating our business towards our vision to make it delightfully easy to build wealth on your own terms. Not […]

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