Elizabeth MacBride, Author at Wealthfront Blog https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/author/elizabeth-macbride-2/ Personal Finance & Investing Insights Wed, 12 Jan 2022 01:12:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-wave-logo-transparent-hi-res-500x500.png Elizabeth MacBride, Author at Wealthfront Blog https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/author/elizabeth-macbride-2/ 32 32 Q&A with William Sharpe: Investing In a Turbulent Market https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/william-sharpe-retirement-planning/ Thu, 30 May 2013 18:25:15 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=3920 Nobel Prize-winning economist William Sharpe recently published an article showing retirees how much more money they could have in retirement by avoiding actively managed funds in favor of index-oriented funds. In the article, “The Arithmetic of Investment Expenses” in the Financial Analysts Journal, Sharpe showed that a person saving for retirement who chooses low-cost investments […]

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]]> Five Ways ETFs Surpass Index Funds https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/passive-investing-etfs-vs-index-funds/ Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:13:59 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=3539 We often get the question from clients: What is the difference between an index fund and an ETF? Even people who understand ETFs don’t understand the difference between these two kinds of investment products. We believe ETFs are index funds, evolved. To understand why ETFs represent such an advance over index funds, you have to […]

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]]> Sizing Up Your Home As An Investment https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/home-mortgage-investment/ Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:14:26 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=3280 When I was shopping for my first house, my real estate agent told me that I’d be able to feel it when the house was right: Something about the place would embrace me when I walked in the door. She was right – I fell in love with a spacious though impractical Victorian, where my […]

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]]> Do You Need A Private Banker? https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/pros-cons-private-banker/ Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:42:14 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=3260 A private banker is someone who focuses on the needs of wealthier-than-average clients. Sometimes, he or she works for a private bank within a large institution, like J.P. Morgan Private Banking; other times, his or her institution is a private bank, like U.S. Trust. Private banks used to exclusively serve people with millions of dollars […]

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]]> Wall Street Ethics: The Vanguard Test https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wall-street-broker-ethics/ Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:38:02 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=3131 Last week, Susanne Craig and Jessica Silver-Greenberg of The New York Times wrote a smoking-gun story about the lack of ethics at JPMorgan Chase. “[As JPMorgan Chase] became one of the nation’s largest mutual fund managers, some current and former brokers say it emphasized its sales over clients’ needs,” wrote the duo. This is a […]

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]]> Finding Talent In Silicon Valley https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/silicon-valley-talent-war/ Thu, 24 May 2012 14:23:49 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=2167 The coming-to-Wealthfront story that best illustrates the value our company places on internal drive versus lines on a resume is the story that belongs to John Hitchings. The software engineer who sits unassumingly in the dead center of our Palo Alto office, John came to California from Rome, in upstate New York.

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]]> Perspectives on Tech IPOs: Eric Schmidt, Bill Gurley, Ben Horowitz, Frank Quattrone https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/tech-bubble-ipo-surge/ Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:30:36 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=1903 Globalization underpins the fast growth of the current generation of Internet companies, especially those heading toward IPOs in the near future, according to four Silicon Valley leaders in video interviews released by Wealthfront today. Great Perspectives on Tech IPOs from Wealthfront. All four leaders, in different ways, address the central questions hanging over the technology […]

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]]> Wealthfront Returns To The Big Apple https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wealthfront-returns-to-the-big-apple/ Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:48:32 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=1873 Wealthfront will be in New York City Feb. 28 – March 1 to meet with members of the Big Apple’s tech community. The visit coalesced when Wealthfront’s General Counsel, E.J. Borrack, a New Yorker, attended a lunch with Janet Hanson, the CEO and founder of 85 Broads, a global women’s network. The lunch featured a […]

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]]> Wall Street Invades Silicon Valley https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/silicon-valley-wealth-management/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:21:00 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=1794 Brokers around the country have woken up to the wealth being created by Silicon Valley IPOs and are busy plotting to get a share of it. One trade publication for brokers and financial advisors published a kind of “cheat sheet” on big Valley companies, which ends with the suggestion that brokers should become less like […]

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]]> Wealthfront In the News https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wealthfront-in-the-news/ Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:03:18 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=1737 Wealthfront: The Antidote To The Wealth Management Zombies On Jan. 16, in the new Pandodaily, Sarah Lacy wrote about the culture clash between Wall Street and Silicon Valley. Like Zombies single-mindedly trolling an apocalyptic wasteland for brains, the wealth managers are coming. They’re staggering all over Silicon Valley with dollar signs in their sunken, dead […]

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