Industry insights Archives | Wealthfront Blog https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/category/industry-insights/ Personal Finance & Investing Insights Thu, 12 Jun 2025 23:18:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-wave-logo-transparent-hi-res-500x500.png Industry insights Archives | Wealthfront Blog https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/category/industry-insights/ 32 32 May 2025 Market & Investor Trends https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/may-2025-trends/ Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:29:08 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=17694 Something interesting happened in the US stock market in mid-May: Despite significant volatility this spring, on May 13, the broad US stock market (as represented by the Vanguard Total Stock Market index fund, VTI) returned to the same level where it started the year, and through June 4 it is up 1.22% year to date. […]

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]]> What Tariff-Fueled Market Uncertainty Means for Your Investments https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/burt-uncertainty/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:45:01 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=17655 The future is always uncertain—this is true no matter which period of history you look at, and it’s definitely true right now. Over the last several weeks, financial markets have been volatile because of uncertainty about the impact and extent of tariffs. While we can’t know for sure how long these policies will persist, there […]

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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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]]> CFO Alan Imberman Reflects on His Decade at Wealthfront https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/alan-ten-years-wealthfront/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:26:54 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=17632 Ten years ago, I had recently finished my MBA and was working in business valuation for a public accounting firm. Like many young professionals, I was trying to manage my own portfolio of individual stocks—researching companies, making trades, and constantly second-guessing my decisions. It was time consuming, stressful, and, frankly, not very effective. Then came […]

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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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]]> Want To Beat the Market? Focus on After-Tax Returns Instead https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/beat-the-market-after-taxes/ Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:05:09 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=17581 Beating the market sounds nice, but in reality, it usually doesn’t work. No matter how long you spend scouring the internet for stock tips and reading page after page of expert commentary, you’re unlikely to consistently generate outsized pre-tax returns. But at Wealthfront, we do think it’s possible to beat the market on an after-tax […]

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]]> Don’t Just Buy Last Year’s Winners https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/burt-alex-letter-winter-2025/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:59:39 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=17548 The end of one calendar year and the start of the next is when many Wall Street gurus present their “playbooks” for the year ahead. The predictions in these playbooks are frequently incorrect, and might encourage you to concentrate your portfolio in specific sectors or even specific stocks that performed well over the previous year. […]

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]]> How the Fed Funds Rate Impacts the Wealthfront Cash Account https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/how-the-fed-funds-rate-impacts-the-wealthfront-cash-account/ Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:17:25 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=10575 You may not think about it very often, but the federal funds rate (or “fed funds rate” for short) almost certainly has an impact on your life. It’s an important factor in the interest you earn on your savings as well as the rate you pay on any loans or debt. The fed funds rate […]

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]]> Why Picking the Winning Sector Is a Losing Game https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/burt-alex-letter-summer-2024/ Tue, 30 Jul 2024 15:50:59 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=17278 Wealthfront clients are generally well aware of best practices for building wealth and a retirement nest egg. The holy grail consists of broad diversification, indexing, minimizing costs and taxes, rebalancing, and staying the course (all of which are key tenets of Wealthfront’s investment philosophy). But equally important is to avoid the common mistakes that have […]

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