Listen to Our New Podcast!

We call it the Wealthsimple Magazine Podcast. How did we come up with the name? We’ll explain, but the short answer is: high-priced naming consultant.

We Raised $750 Million. We’re Using it to Make Money Easier for Everyone

It may be the largest tech investment ever in Canada. And it’s not just a huge vote of confidence, but a challenge to revolutionize the finance industry on behalf of all of us.

Introducing: Wealthsimple for Work

What if you could replace your glitchy, high-fee, cumbersome retirement plan at work with something like Wealthsimple Invest? Well, now you can. And we want to give you $1,000 to spread the word.

Announcing Canada’s First 🔥 Way to Pay Your Friends Instantly

Download the new Wealthsimple Cash app, and seven seconds later you can pay rent, split the bill, or settle up with the dog-walker in an instant. And it’s totally free.

How Wealthsimple Trade Didn’t Break During GameStop

Lots of trading platforms went down during the meme-stock bonanza. Why didn't Wealthsimple Trade? We sit down with Karney Li (CTO) and Dominique Simoneau-Ritchie (VP of Engineering) to learn how you can grow by 1,000% without blowing up.

Meet Wealthsimple Tax

The change has happened. The clock’s struck midnight. SimpleTax is Wealthsimple Tax. So now you can do your own taxes, pay what you want, and get the biggest refund, guaranteed.

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 Free Government Money Isn’t the Only Reason To Open an RESP

All hail the Wealthsimple RESP. Now that we’ve eliminated the confusing paperwork and high fees, there's no good reason not to start planning for your kids' future.

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.

The TikTok Economy, Explained by Snarky Marky

In 2020, he was just a college student living with his parents in Toronto when a TikTok he made went viral. Now he has 4.3 million followers and a one-person business. He tells us how it all works, down to the dollar.

It’ll Work Itself Out (It Actually Won’t)

He’d finally achieved what he’d always wanted. He was a writer, in New York, people knew his name. But under his bed was a plastic bin that contained — in the form of bills and notices — another man entirely. An addict and a debtor. And that man had come calling.

Money Diaries: The (Kinda) NSFW OnlyFans Edition

OnlyFans is a kind of digital revolution in sex work that purports to give the power to the workers instead of the overlords. @thatfatbabe, @chloevenom, and @andywithabig🍆 tell us the truth about life inside the naked social economy. (Warning: explicit content.)

A Man Known As Beeple Made $3.5 Million Selling His Digital Art in a Weekend

Meet Beeple. Born Mike Winkelmann in small-town Wisconsin. For thirteen years he’s been making digital art, often for free. Then, thanks in part to the technology that powers cryptocurrencies, he made $3.5 million selling his art in a weekend. He tells us his story.

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.