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Noah Kerner: We respect what Wealthfront has created but Acorns has a very different customer and product roadmap.

As Acorns grapples with monetizing 1.1 million micro-accounts, the laid-back LA robo-advisor brings Wealthfront’s former chief exec onto its board

After this week's $1.3-billion Robinhood valuation, the sheer quantity of Acorn accounts may count for plenty in VC estimations

April 28, 2017 at 9:50 PM

Andy Rachleff: I realized that instead of spending less time with the company, I actually want to spend more.

Andy Rachleff takes back CEO spot at Wealthfront at critical juncture

Adam Nash bows out after overseeing growth to $4.5 billion of AUM

October 31, 2016 at 11:34 PM

Roy Adams, Joe Ternasky and Jakub Jurek were hired for three very different purposes but are all part of a phase three overhaul of its business model.

What to make of Wealthfront's three big hires and why its artificial intelligence bid may be indefensible as a strategy

The Redwood City robo bets big on an ex-Google engineering whiz amid a Betterment onslaught and after a period of high-profile departures

September 22, 2016 at 9:06 PM

Adam Nash: We're firm believers that artificial intelligence applied to your actual behavior will provide far more powerful advice than what traditional advisors offer today.

After Betterment's $100 million VC raise makes 25 newspapers, Wealthfront unveils 3.0 on blog and Twitter

The big Redwood City robo is staying in character by touting 'artificial intelligence,' in synch with Facebook's CEO, but whether it's a real delineation or simple evolution is hard to tell

April 19, 2016 at 9:35 PM

Mike Schroepfer is the latest Facebook add to Wealthfront's squad.

Wealthfront takes on another Facebook vet -- a clue that going dark in Palo Alto doesn't mean going away

The last-standing pure B2C robo hopes to outwit, outlast, and outplay its competitors by out-hiring them

December 3, 2015 at 6:15 PM

Ashley Fieglein Johnson earned close to $1 million in total compensation last year but a $12 annoyance bank fee charged to her five-year-old son was a big reason she joined Wealthfront.

Two ways of reading Wealthfront's inscrutable hire of a power CFO -- one it may not really need anytime soon

The Palo Alto-based robo-advisor may have tapped Ashley Fieglein Johnson to raise more VC -- or just because it doesn't need to count every bit of cash it burns

August 19, 2015 at 3:05 PM

Katie Henderson: We really do believe that the need for advice is growing. This is something retail clients have been asking for as they get close to the pre-retiree phase.

Vanguard's white-hot 'hybrid robo' just added $4 billion in three months -- a heat that may cast a chill on 'pure' robos

Now at $21 billion, Vanguard Personal Advisor Services is cannibalizing as a segmentation strategy and emphasizing new technology that edges it toward a more robo-centric, less call center-oriented model

July 16, 2015 at 5:02 PM

Jon Stein: I'm loath to play this game, but my PR team insisted that I set the record straight.

Wealthfront CEO flames Betterment's 'outrageous' fees and 'abhorrent' ways; Betterment strikes back labeling the screed a Trumped-up PR play

In all-out blog war, Adam Nash accuses Betterment of 'payday lending' and Jon Stein decries Wealthfront's cynical 'hatchet job'

July 9, 2015 at 12:57 AM

Kate Aronowitz: Millennials are the people who try things first. They have a higher bar for design but I don't think you choose one [demographic] or the other.

After Schwab and Betterment catch up to Wealthfront's AUM, the Palo Alto robo pioneer makes a stunning hire

Facebook's former design chief will use millennials as an acid test but she's designing for a broader market

June 5, 2015 at 6:04 PM

Jon Stein: It's basically a nonevent. I don't think they're going after the same customers.

Schwab's robo launch stimulates sign-ups at Betterment and Wealthfront -- and itself

Schwab Intelligent Portfolios' wake is lifting the fortunes of independent robos, say CEOs gathered in Manhattan for the Tiburon CEO Summit

April 8, 2015 at 1:28 PM

Adam Nash's blog broadside features a photo of Chuck Schwab from his company's 'David' days of taking on the Merrill Lynch 'Goliath'

Adam Nash makes direct 'CEO-to-CEO' plea to Schwab to rethink its robo

In a blistering blog entry, the Wealthfront chief executive expresses outrage at the Schwab robo's ADV contents -- and gets an earful back from the San Francisco giant

March 11, 2015 at 4:16 AM

Adam Nash: When you start handling large accounts, you start having to deal the problems that come with them.

Wealthfront throws engineering at its large-account 'problem'

The Palo Alto-based automated money manager addresses tax slippage from transfers of HNW accounts to its website

February 23, 2015 at 8:39 PM

Adam Nash: We thought we were launching a product, but it turned out we were launching a category.

Wealthfront's high-net-worth cat leaps out of the bag -- keeping it one robo 'pivot' ahead of Schwab

The Palo Alto firm with $1.7 billion of managed assets reveals that its little secret is big accounts

December 19, 2014 at 7:33 PM

Adam Nash: Having $100 million in the bank allows us to retain independence from Wall Street.

Wealthfront responds with force to Schwab CEO's robo announcement

The Silicon Valley-based auto-advice leader stokes its aura of invincibility by raising $64-million that it won't need anytime soon

October 28, 2014 at 7:49 PM

Ali Rosenberg: I found myself evangelizing Wealthfront.

After bagging Google, Wealthfront hires a Facebook web-traffic pied piper to manage mega-prospects knocking at the door

With 'bigger' deals than Google in the works, Alison Rosenthal hits the ground running -- fast -- at the online RIA

October 2, 2014 at 11:31 PM

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