Adam Nash Archives | Wealthfront Blog Personal Finance & Investing Insights Wed, 12 Jan 2022 01:12:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-wave-logo-transparent-hi-res-500x500.png Adam Nash Archives | Wealthfront Blog 32 32 Two Billion Reasons to Believe https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/two-billion-reasons-to-believe/ Tue, 03 Mar 2015 02:19:30 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=5014 “A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.”           […]

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]]> Why You Shouldn’t Just Invest in the S&P 500 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/why-you-shouldnt-just-invest-in-sp-500/ Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:53:57 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=4862 Diversification matters. Diversification is the key to long-term investment success because it can insulate you, to some extent, from losses. If you feel insulated, you are more likely to stay invested and keep investing through market volatility. Being properly diversified also enables the actions that help you during market corrections: rebalancing and tax-loss harvesting. Investors […]

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]]> The $7 Trillion Opportunity https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wealthfront-announces-financing-7-trillion/ Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:30:20 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=4827 The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” — Alan Kay We are on the cusp of a momentous inflection point in finance. For the first time in decades, two titanic demographic shifts are happening in the United States simultaneously. The Baby Boom generation, the 78 million Americans born after WWII, have finally […]

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]]> Happy Birthday, Tax-Loss Harvesting https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/tax-loss-harvesting-improvements-intelligent-recovery-predictive-deposits/ Thu, 16 Oct 2014 20:00:25 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=4812 Note: Wealthfront’s Stock-level Tax-Loss Harvesting is now called US Direct Indexing. Back in October 2012, Wealthfront became the first automated investment service to introduce tax-loss harvesting. While tax-loss harvesting has been around for a long time, it traditionally has only been offered to the ultra-wealthy and it was almost always done just once a year […]

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]]> Does It Ever Make Sense to Stop Saving For Retirement? https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/how-much-save-for-retirement/ Thu, 08 Aug 2013 20:00:50 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=4009 This Knowledge Center post was adapted from Wealthfront COO Adam Nash’s answer to a question on Quora — Ed. The Question: Let’s say I’m 30 and have $250K in my 401k. If I stopped contributing now I would have $2.5M in my account by the time I’m 60 and am allowed to make a withdrawal. […]

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