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Overview
Wealthfront is a ‘smart’ robo-advisor with low fees no dummy could ignore.
The brains of this robo-advisor were created by former Vanguard executive and Princeton University professor Burton Malkiel – a father of passive index investing. Based on three decades of research and superior passive versus active investing returns, Wealthfront seeks to provide you with a long-term investment edge through its value-added products. This fiscal-minded robo-advisor seeks to improve your investment returns through tax saving strategies.
By not trying to “beat the market,” Wealthfront invest in low-cost funds that also have less risk. The cost savings are passed onto you in the form of higher returns and managing your first $10,000 for free! The $10,000 of free managed assets saves you $25 a year that can be invested to earn more passive income.
The famous academics at Wealthfront are not resting on their laurels. In 2017, Wealthfront added an Advanced Indexing product based on ‘smart beta’ factors proven over time to be drivers of long-term performance. Wealthfront’s value-added products – Tax Harvesting, Direct Indexing, and Advanced Indexing are now bundled into the PassivePlus® product suite.
Founding: 2011
Assets Under Management: Over $5 billion
Client Profile: The average client is 37 years old and married with a joint income of $260,000, or $422,000 for premium clients.
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Getting Started
What do you need to start?
Click on Invest Now to start optimizing your investment portfolio with Wealthfront’s time-tested performance and tax-enhancing strategies.
What questions do they ask?
After answering the online assessment questions, a retirement portfolio based on your risk tolerance will be generated. Your portfolio will be generated in less than a minute from now. The questions cover your:
Investing Objectives
Is your priority to build a diversified portfolio, benefit from tax savings, to beat the market, or all of the above?
Financial Profile
Next, Wealthfront asks about your personal income, investments and other assets, and family status.
Risk Tolerance
Do you seek to maximize gains, minimize losses, or both?
What would you do if your portfolio lost 10 percent of its value in a month?
That’s it!
Your investment plan with a detailed asset allocation will arrive within a few seconds in your email. To minimize your taxes, assets will be allocated into a taxable and non-taxable portfolio: a Taxable Investment Mix and Retirement Investment Mix, each diversified across up to 11 global asset classes. You will also receive your risk rating. You may update your rating monthly but are advised against changing your risk profile, and consequently your asset allocation. Remember the lesson from Malkiel’s popular 1973 book A Random Walk on Wall Street – “large advisory fees and substantial portfolio turnover” reduce investment results.[1]
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