smart beta Archives | Wealthfront Blog Personal Finance & Investing Insights Tue, 25 Jan 2022 20:56:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-wave-logo-transparent-hi-res-500x500.png smart beta Archives | Wealthfront Blog 32 32 We’re Updating Our Smart Beta Offering https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/updates-to-smart-beta/ Tue, 18 Jan 2022 17:01:08 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=14919 Today, we’re excited to announce three updates to Wealthfront’s Smart Beta service. These updates are designed to improve your expected risk-adjusted returns, remove some unnecessary complexity for accounts over $1 million, and reduce tracking error. Smart Beta is an advanced feature of Wealthfront’s US Direct Indexing that applies time-tested research to optimize your allocation to […]

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]]> The Women of Wealthfront: Celine Sun https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/women-of-wealthfront-celine/ Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:52:39 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=8524 On March 8th we kicked off Women’s History Month by profiling some of our most unique women clients. As part of our month-long celebration we now want to highlight a few of our talented women executives at Wealthfront -- all outstanding leaders who, like our clients, have taken an unconventional path to get to where they are.

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]]> Following the Rules https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/following-rules/ Thu, 18 Jan 2018 19:14:24 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=8311 Note: Wealthfront’s Stock-level Tax-Loss Harvesting is now called US Direct Indexing. There’s not much debate that computers are better at routine tasks than people. But most people don’t realize that good investing is incredibly routine. And by routine I mean rules-based. Time and time again academic research has shown that rules-based approaches outperform judgment-based approaches […]

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]]> An Optimal Approach to Smart Beta https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/optimal-approach-smart-beta/ Wed, 28 Jun 2017 18:18:03 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=7655 Note: As of January 2022, Wealthfront has updated its Smart Beta offering. You can read more about the changes here.  I have been skeptical about the proliferation of “Smart Beta” strategies, many of which have failed to generate satisfactory returns. The reason is not because the approach has no theoretical basis or is inconsistent with […]

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]]> Giving You An Edge https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/introducing-advanced-indexing/ Thu, 15 Jun 2017 17:45:55 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=7627 Wealthfront is built on the philosophy that passive investing is the key to long-term success. But we always try to go above and beyond to help your portfolio perform better. In other words, we try to give you an edge. To do that we first launched Tax-Loss Harvesting, which takes advantage of movements in the […]

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