News
Announcing the Wealthsimple Green Bond: We Made Green Investing Actually Green
Latest
Wealthsimple Magazine
A money magazine for people who care about more than money
Conversations with geniuses and weirdos, help with investing and taxes, and stories that help you understand the big strange world we live in
Money Diaries
"UNTIL 44 YEARS OF AGE, I NEVER HAD ANY KIND OF SAVINGS ACCOUNT. I’D ALWAYS BEEN UNDER THE GUN. I’D ALWAYS OWED MONEY."
Anthony Bourdain
Wealthsimple is investing on autopilot. Get started now.
Get Started
Get rich slow
Powerful financial tools to help you grow and manage your money. Get started now.
Popular right now
Jon Hamm Would Like to Buy a Time Machine
Money Diaries
Seven Ways to Get Ready (Financially) for Your First Kid
Finance for Humans
It’ll Work Itself Out (It Actually Won’t)
Money Diaries
Anthony Bourdain Does Not Want to Owe Anybody Even a Single Dollar
Money Diaries
Nine Ways to Be Smart When the Market Goes Down
Money & the World
Featured Topic
News
The latest news from Wealthsimple
Announcing the Wealthsimple Green Bond: We Made Green Investing Actually Green
Until now, responsible investing has been about avoiding bad actors. The new Wealthsimple Green Bond changes that by supporting projects that are changing the world for the better. And it’s a good investment, too.
The Deadline for RESPs is Coming! It's About More Than Free Money
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 deadline is December 31)
Introducing Plus, a Better Way to Trade U.S. Stocks
For $10 a month, you’ll be able to buy and sell all the U.S. stocks you want — with no commission charges and no foreign-exchange fees on trades. Sign up now so you’re first in line when we launch.
We’ve Got Wallets (Crypto, Not Velcro!)
You can now store, trade, and receive bitcoin, ether, and other popular tokens in one app. Which is really handy if you believe that blockchain is the future (like we do).
Crypto: Now Available in Our Retirement Portfolios at Wealthsimple Work
Did you know Wealthsimple manages GRSPs for employers? And that we’ve designed a brand new portfolio that features cryptocurrency ETFs as part of a diversified portfolio to invest for your retirement?
Only Want to Invest in Companies That Can Meet the Paris Accords Guidelines? We Did That For You
When we built our new SRI funds, we thought they were good. But we wanted to know for sure, so we hired a firm to find out. The results exceeded our expectations, and showed us how responsibility should be measured.
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.
Featured Topic
Money Diaries
Candid money stories from interesting people
Kim Kardashian, Mogul, Tells Us Her Money Story
The financial life of arguably the most American businesswoman in existence, from learning to balance her chequebook to running a beauty brand.
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.
Jon Hamm Would Like to Buy a Time Machine
Wealthsimple discovers that Don Draper is actually a soulful guy who was a waiter almost as long as he’s been an actor. We talk to him about how to have your head screwed on straight about money.
Simu Liu Doesn’t Own the Raptors. Yet.
The star of Marvel’s Shang Chi on his immigrant experience, buying his friends a Disney experience, and his old job crunching numbers at Deloitte.
Anthony Bourdain Does Not Want to Owe Anybody Even a Single Dollar
Before he was the guy from Parts Unknown, he was 44, never had a savings account, hadn't filed taxes in 10 years, and was AWOL on his AmEx bill. That turned out to be a great financial education.
Jeff Tweedy Was Smart About Money So He Didn’t Have to Think About It
The Wilco frontman talks about safeguarding his creative process, his allergy to debt, and why he always rejected big record advances.
Emily Ratajkowski Is Not a Commodity
The actress, model and now writer tells us her money story, and all the intense contradictions about objectification it entails.
Friends with Money: Taylor Rooks
The woman who emerged from last year’s NBA bubble season as one of sports media’s biggest star talks about navigating business as a woman, being transparent about how much she makes, and the rest of her money story.
Shangela Would Like to Remind You to Tip Your Drag Queen
The perennial crowd favorite on 'RuPaul's Drag Race' talks wig economics and why resourcefulness is a vocational imperative.
Natasha Rothwell's Character in “The White Lotus” Finds an Angel Investor. Her Real Life Didn't Quite Work That Way.
A Money Diary about subsidized housing, writing for “Saturday Night Live,” and getting into credit card debt from the actress (“Insecure”) and writer.
Featured Topic
Finance for Humans
How to be a better money person
Oh Wait, Do I Need to Pay Taxes on My Stock Trades? A Guide
Are you new to trading? Well, surprise! You have to pay taxes on all the stocks you sold last year. How nervous should you be about that? Not very — if you do a few simple things.
A Freelancer’s Guide to Saving Like a Corporate Lifer
Self-employment comes with a lot of perks, mostly involving not having a boss. The tradeoff? No savings or retirement benefits. Womp womp. That means freelancers need to create their own savings strategy. Here’s how.
You Don’t Have to Pay Taxes on Crypto! And Other NOT TRUE Tax Myths
Social media is great for doom scrolling and feeling FOMO. But it’s absolutely lousy if you want credible crypto tax advice in Canada.
Inflation Freakout 2021: What Happens Next?
OK, so inflation is high — really high. And central bankers are in a tough spot, because there’s no clear way to bring it down. Here are three paths they’re probably considering, and what each might mean for the rest of us.
Seven Ways to Get Ready (Financially) for Your First Kid
There are a few simple ways to make sure you have your ducks in a row when you become a parent. Do them as soon as you can! You’re a responsible adult now, after all. Here’s how.
Dear Lizzie: How Do I Afford to Buy My Rich Sister Something She’ll Actually Like! And Other Holiday Conundrums
This week, our columnist reviews her rules for gifts from how to budget, how to give meaningful gifts regardless of price, and of course, a how-to on rich sisters.
Five Tax Traps. And How, If You Start Now, You Can Avoid Them
It may seem early to think about taxes. But if you do a few relatively easy things right now, you can (hopefully) avoid a tax nightmare in the future.
Learn to Speak Crypto: Lesson Two
In our second installment, we’ll learn about the technologies at the core of the blockchain revolution — along with a misspelling turned investment mantra.
Five Simple Rules To Be the Absolute Worst Stock Picker
Anyone can be a lousy stock trader. (In fact, the majority of us probably are.) But to be a true money-losing machine, you need discipline and strategy. And a five-point plan.
It’s Financial Literacy Month! Here’s Some Essential Money Advice
Our M.O. at Wealthsimple is to demystify the many, many complexities of personal finance. In honour of Financial Literacy Month, we’re sharing some of the smartest, most practical insights we’ve published.
Featured Topic
Money & the World
How money shapes the world we live in
The Big Bitcoin Drop, Explained
The world’s most popular cryptocurrency has had a very rotten month — to put it mildly. Here’s what’s going on, and what it might mean for the token’s future.
Money 2021: The Year of ‘Oh Wait, That’s Never Happened Before’
The past 12 months have scrambled much of what we knew, or thought we knew, about money and ushered in a new, often exciting, occasionally head-scratching financial era. Will money ever make sense again?
Nine Ways to Be Smart When the Market Goes Down
Smart investors don’t try to avoid downturns, which are inevitable. Instead, they make sure they’re in a good place when the markets go back up. Because that’s inevitable, too.
The True Thoughts of the “Worried Stock Market Guys”
Whenever the market tumbles, as it did this week, you can bet on one thing: news outlets start buying stock photos of anxious (probably male, middle-aged) traders to post with their stories. We investigated what these folks are actually concerned about.
Why We’re Excited About Crypto
It isn’t because of the value of Bitcoin or the rise of some altcoin. It’s because crypto could create a new technological era.
This Is Not Normal: A Letter From the Toronto Real-Estate Forever Boom
Home prices have been climbing for, oh, a quarter of a century. We’re beyond a bubble. We’re living in an age of unstoppable rise. And it’s driving us all mildly insane.
What’s Up With All Those Crypto Laser-Eyes Profile Pics? A Definitive Investigation
Maybe you’ve noticed that Bitcoin enthusiasts have for the better part of a year been replacing their eyeballs with photon cannons. Why? What does it mean? And who started it? Rosecrans Baldwin goes deep into the world of crypto to find out.
The Wealthsimple Debates: We Grilled Three Parties on Money, Tech, and Jobs
Wealthsimple founder Mike Katchen sat down with Conservative, Liberal, and NDP officials days before the election to find out where they stood on jobs, education, technology and our favourite topic: the future.
Loot Is Like Dungeons & Dragons. It’s Also the Future of Crypto
Last week, the co-creator of Vine launched a gaming platform that belongs to users instead of some giant corporation. It’s pretty important even if you don’t ever want to play on it.
We Found the NFT Marriage Proposal Guy
The internet got really interested in the intersection of love and the blockchain this week when a Reddit post about a man who proposed to his girlfriend using an NFT instead of an engagement ring went viral. We found out the truth.
