Wall Street Archives | Wealthfront Blog Personal Finance & Investing Insights Wed, 12 Jan 2022 01:12:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-wave-logo-transparent-hi-res-500x500.png Wall Street Archives | Wealthfront Blog 32 32 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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]]> Silicon Valley Pulls Top Grads From Wall Street https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wall-street-vs-silicon-valley-talent-recruiting/ Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:20:55 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=1931 For years, the Ivy League colleges have sent many of their best and brightest mathematical and scientific minds to Wall Street as financial engineers. One of the drivers, of course, is money. Wall Street has always topped the list of the highest-paid industries – even rising above generally good pay in the tech sector by […]

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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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]]> Does Your Financial Advisor Think You’re Clueless? https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/silicon-valley-money-management/ Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:14:05 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=1743 Wealthfront’s CEO Andy Rachleff published a column last week on Forbes.com about how this generation of IPO wealth may help transform the business of money management. It offers a sharp contrast to the attitude that many Wall Street brokers take toward their clients, which was obvious in an article that ran last week in the […]

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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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]]> Are There Socially Conscious Ways To Invest? https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/socially-responsible-investing/ Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:27:24 +0000 /blog/?p=1682 If you have a question for The Upfront Blog, please leave it in our comments section, e-mail betsy@wealtfront.com or send it via our twitter feed: @wealthfront. Are there socially conscious ways to invest? -Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke, 26 The short answer is yes. But before you decide to practice socially responsible investing, you should carefully consider what […]

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]]> Morningstar’s New Ranking System: Worthwhile? https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/morningstars-ranking-system-worthwhile/ Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:16:20 +0000 /blog/?p=1584 Morningstar debuted its new mutual fund ratings systems this week. Everyone’s known for some time that the company’s widely used star system for ratings doesn’t work to predict future results any better than simply using funds’ expense ratios. Morningstar itself acknowledged the fact that expense ratios are a better predictor of performance. Even after that […]

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]]> GenY’ers Freeze Up When They Should Be Investing https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/genyers-freeze-investing/ Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:12:25 +0000 /blog/?p=1539 The extent to which the market’s volatility is contributing to the feeling of uncertainty was clear in a new survey released this week by Guardian, a life insurance company. Some 39% of Americans are overwhelmed by the idea of how to save for retirement, based on the survey of 1,202 people, which also looked at […]

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]]> This Week In Finance: PR Nightmares For Ameriprise, Netflix and OWS https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/week-finance-pr-nightmares-ameriprise-netflix-ows/ Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:42:10 +0000 /blog/?p=1527 Financial services giant Ameriprise has a very nice video on its web site, narrated in homey style by Tommy Lee Jones, leaning over a white picket fence. “This is a company … with a steadfast commitment to putting clients first.” That’s the marketing message, of course. But take a look at the lawsuit filed last […]

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]]> Signs Of Life In The Markets…or Life Support? https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/signs-life-marketsor-life-support/ Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:15:33 +0000 /blog/?p=1514 This week started out on a wave of relief after the market’s gains. As Monday rolled in, we sensed European politicians might be coming up with a plan to save the continent, and a few people were even floating on the idea that stocks could lead a real recovery. Realism and the economic doldrums settled […]

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