Building a Better Wealthsimple: A Diversity & Inclusion Update

It’s the start of a new year, and it’s a good time to check on what we’re doing to make good on the promises we made last year to be a more diverse, inclusive company. Here’s where we are.

The Best Path to Financial Literacy? Build Products People Actually Understand

It’s Financial Literacy Month, which means banks and other institutions will trot out apps and courses to help people learn more about how to manage their money. But they won’t address the real problem: their own needless complex and opaque products.

Wealthsimple Crypto Is Here!

You can now buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum with Wealthsimple Crypto. Here’s how it works, how to sign up, and everything else you need to know.

Wealthsimple Has the First Regulated Crypto Trading Platform in Canada. But What Does That Even Mean?

Wealthsimple Has the First Regulated Crypto Trading Platform in Canada.

We Were Not Living Up To Our Principles. Here's What We Are Doing About It

We believe Black lives matter. We are committed to building a more diverse team, and to supporting our Black communities.

We Made an Even More Socially Responsible Portfolio

Introducing Wealthsimple’s new SRI funds. We designed them to be the most effective, low-cost, and, yes, socially responsible ETFs in Canada.

We Built Our Portfolios to Protect Your Money In a Downturn. Here's Why it Worked

Our new portfolios outperformed our old portfolios (not to mention Canada’s largest mutual funds). Of course, no one should focus on short-term performance, but a look at why these changes worked will help you understand why not all diversification is created equal.

How Do You Bring Financial Power to the People? It’s Kind of a Good Story

Why are we telling the story of where we came from now? Because it’s got a lot to do with where Wealthsimple is going.

Welcome SimpleTax, the Newest Addition to the Wealthsimple Family

If you love SimpleTax (or don’t know you love it yet) you’ll be thrilled to know it’s now another way Wealthsimple is making your money life better.

The Wealthsimple Experience Is About to Get Even Better

When you log in to Wealthsimple in the next week, things are going to look a little different. Our new experience gives you a clearer picture of where you are, so you can make better decisions about where you want to go.

How to Go From Working in a Steel Mill to Being the Highest Paid Actor on TV

Ed O’Neill made his career during the era when networks dominated TV, starring in “Married... With Children” and “Modern Family.” He also gives a stunning performance in the recently released film “The Last Shift,” a new comedy about working-class life. He opens up to Wealthsimple about earning $300 a week in a steel mill in Youngstown and getting a $3-million bonus in Hollywood.

Karen Russell: A Brutally Honest Accounting of Writing, Money, and Motherhood

The novelist didn’t realize how fervently society wants to turn us into calculators — every action has a payment or a fee — until she had her first child. Here she reckons with motherhood’s ticking meter: every minute with her kids is work lost, and each minute writing subtracts from precious, un-price-able joy.

Friends with Money: Playwright Jeremy O. Harris

In the second installment of her series, Tori Sampson talks to her friend from grad school, who has become a TV writer with an HBO deal and the author of the play that this year received the most Tony nominations ever.

Friends with Money: Comedian Sam Jay

In her interview series Friends with Money, playwright and writer, Tori Sampson, talks to people she knows (and some she doesn’t) about money, what it’s like to have it and to be without it. Here, in her first installment: stand-up comedian, Saturday Night Live writer, and star of the Netflix special “Sam Jay: 3 in the Morning”, Sam Jay.

Joel Kim Booster Was in Massive Student Debt Until Last Year

Before he was cast in Sunnyside or had a Comedy Central special or wrote for Billy on the Street, he was raised working class in Illinois, saddled with huge student debt, and worked marathon hours doing customer service for Groupon. Joel Kim Booster shares his money story.

Tynomi Banks’s Big Break Was Probably Getting Fired From a Corporate Job

On the heels of her elimination from Canada's Drag Race, the world-class drag performer talks about inequality in the drag world, her mother’s lessons in hustle, and drag during the time of covid.

Stories From Our New Economy: Bullish on Bidets Edition

Our new Money Diaries series tells stories of humans whose lives have been upended by this crisis. In this edition we meet four businesses (the owner of a bunker company, a bespoke distiller, a day-trading celebrity, and a bidet magnate) that took unexpected turns.

Alison Roman Is the Patron Saint of Home Cooking and Everyone’s at Home

She always wanted to cook and never thought much about money. But life gets strange when everyone’s wondering what to do with half a pound of broccoli and some dry kidney beans and you know the answer. The chef and cookbook author on her pandemic money story.

Pandemic Money Diaries — Panic at Trader Joe’s Edition

Our virus-era Money Diaries series tells stories of humans whose lives, financial and otherwise, have been upended. In our first edition: a grocery clerk, a weed dealer, the author Jon Mooallem, a restaurant manager, and a male escort.

Cult Animator Carson Mell Decided Making Stuff Was More Important than College

The maker of the underground hit “Chonto,” writer on “Silicon Valley,” and author of "Cherry on Top" took a circuitous route to Hollywood success. A route that ran through the grocery store deli counter.