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.

Introducing: Fractional Shares on Wealthsimple Trade

When is one-seventeenth greater than one? When it means you can trade a slice of a share (instead of buying the whole damn thing) on the only Canadian trading platform to offer fractional shares of US and Canadian companies.

Building a Better Wealthsimple: Our Diversity & Inclusion Update

Part of our commitment to creating a better, more diverse and inclusive company is to report our progress throughout the year. Here’s where we are today — the progress we’ve made and the places we have more work to do.

Announcing: Wealthsimple Crypto, Now With Tons of New Coins!

Interested in Uniswap, Aave, or Dogecoin — or just generally buying and selling more types of crypto assets? Well, now you can. Here’s how (and what it all means).

The New Wealthsimple Giveback Program: Save For Your Child, Give to a Child in Need

Now when you open or contribute to an RESP account through Wealthsimple, you’ll help children in need save for their futures too. It’s like two good deeds in one super-smart account.

There Were No ETFs For Islamic Investors in Canada. So We Built One

To make Canada’s first Shariah-compliant ETF, we started with our smart investment strategies and added stringent filters to make sure every company we invest in fits with Muslim values.

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.

Love and Crypto: The Hackatao Story

Just before their show at Christie's, the crypto-artist duo talk to us about money, marriage, and the blockchain.

Money Diaries: Pride Edition

For the last four years, our “Money Diaries” series has been all about telling truths. In honour of Pride Month, we share some of greatest conversations we’ve had with LGBTQ+ icons.

The UFC Won’t Pay You Fairly Unless You Make Them

And other life lessons from Georges St-Pierre, Montreal’s three-time UFC champion turned Marvel Universe actor.

The Financial Life of a Minor Character on “Friends”

It’s Joey’s agent, so maybe minor isn’t the word. But we talked to actress June Gable about acting, residuals, and whether she hit the syndication jackpot. Plus what it all meant to her.

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.