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How the Fed Funds Rate Impacts the Wealthfront Cash Account

Wealthfront Team — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:17:25 +0000

You may not think about it very often, but the federal funds rate (or “fed funds rate” for short) almost certainly has an impact on your life. It’s an important factor in the interest you earn on your savings as well as the rate you pay on any loans or debt. The fed funds rate […]

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You Can Now Use Wealthfront’s Cash Account to Automate Your Finances from End to End

The Wealthfront Team — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 15:00:45 +0000

Managing your money should be easy, but it usually isn’t. If you’re like half of Americans and keep your money at more than one financial institution, you probably find yourself moving money between accounts, committing multiple logins to memory, and monitoring lots of transfers. Whether you use traditional banks, fintech companies, or a mix to […]

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You Can Now Invest Your Money Within Minutes With Wealthfront

The Wealthfront Team — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:32:23 +0000

It’s your money — you should be able to put it to work on your terms. We know it’s frustrating when you make a transfer from your traditional checking account to your traditional investment account and it takes a day or two to land in the market. That’s why we’re happy to announce you can […]

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You Can Now Send a Check from the Wealthfront App

The Wealthfront Team — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 19:13:12 +0000

The Wealthfront Cash Account has gotten a series of major upgrades this year. This summer, we enabled checking features so you can direct deposit your paycheck (and get paid up to two days early), pay bills and friends, make purchases with a debit card, and access your cash via a network of free ATMs. Next, […]

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Meet Autopilot, a New Service that Automates Your Savings Strategy

The Wealthfront Team — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 15:30:14 +0000

You’re an optimizer. You know exactly which credit card to use for each purchase in order to get the most points. You read a few Yelp reviews before deciding where you’ll have dinner (or these days, order takeout). And you probably spend a lot of time and effort checking the balance in your various financial […]

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You Can Now Deposit a Check with the Wealthfront App

The Wealthfront Team — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:49:39 +0000

By some accounts, the use of checks dates as far back as ancient Rome. Somehow, they’re still around today. Maybe one still falls out of Grandma’s birthday card each year. Maybe it’s how you get your tax refund. Checks are, frankly, a pretty quaint way to receive funds in the era of Venmo, Apple Pay, […]

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The Wealthfront Cash Account Now Comes With Checking Features

The Wealthfront Team — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 17:00:32 +0000

Note: As of , the Wealthfront Cash Account has a APY. Read more about it . Wealthfront is building a financial system that favors people, not institutions. Over the last eight years, we’ve built best-in-class, innovative products that benefit our clients. Our low-cost, tax-minimized, automated investing service changed the investment management landscape forever, and now, […]

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Meet the Winners of Wealthfront’s $100K Cash Giveaway

The Wealthfront Team — Thu, 21 May 2020 16:11:41 +0000

At Wealthfront, we’re always working to get you more. Our Cash Account, which currently has an APY that’s 5x the national average per FDIC.gov, is just one way we do that. Over the last 15 months, we’ve paid out over $113 million of interest to Cash Account clients. Earlier this spring, we came up with […]

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What Impacts the Rate We Can Pay on the Wealthfront Cash Account?

The Wealthfront Team — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 22:02:54 +0000

Note: As of , the Wealthfront Cash Account has a APY. Read more about it . Over the last few months, we’ve had to lower the interest rate on the Wealthfront Cash Account each time the Federal Reserve lowered the target fed funds rate. This may lead you to assume the only time your rate […]

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How The Wealthfront Cash Account Compares to Other Low-Risk Savings Accounts

The Wealthfront Team — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 23:00:58 +0000

Consumers currently have a huge number of low-risk liquid accounts from which to choose, each belonging to financial institutions that will tell you theirs is the best. So how do you know which account is best?

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