How & Why to Break Up with Your Financial Advisor

They might be nice and have a cool business card and wear comfy sweater vests, but they are probably charging you four times more than they need to for things you don’t use. Here’s how to know if you really need your friendly neighbourhood financial advisor.

Ask Lizzie: Can I Personal Finance My Way Out of a Career of Discrimination?

Lizzie got a question from a friend: if you sense you've been the victim of pay discrimination, what do you do? Which begs the question: how do you even know if you're being underpaid, how do you ask for more, and why is it up to you to solve this problem in the first place? Here's what she says.

How Do You Invest When Interest Rates are at 0%? A Wealthsimple Guide

Interest rates are historically low. Savings accounts earn almost nothing. So how do you help your money make money? We get slightly nerdy with Ben Reeves, Wealthsimple Chief Investment Officer.

Ask Lizzie: Can I Stop Being Friends With Rich(er) People?

This week, our columnist talks to a reader who is fed up with people who have more and is wondering if it’s ethical to just erase them from your life.

Help! This Is a Super BFD!

How do you make a Big Financial Decision (BFD) — like buying a house or starting a business or selling an asset — in the middle of a hurricane of uncertainty? Here’s a guide to deciding (and deciding if you should decide) in a time when no one wants to.

Dear Ms. Etiquette: I Want to Give Money to What’s Important, But I’m Worried About My Financial Future

Our columnist's take on balancing a real fear for your future with a real desire to do good for others.

Emergency Money: What to Do When Your Bills Are Bigger Than Your Income

If your income has taken a hit and you have to tap into savings (or debt), how you do it is important. Here’s our guide to which accounts to pull from, how to avoid penalties and fees and taxes, and everything else you need so it's easy to get back on track when this is over.

What if I Missed the Entire Bull Market?

Say you’re a millennial who came of age right at the cusp of the Great Recession. Or you didn’t start investing because you were freaked out by that recession. Or you had student loans weighing you down. And now the ride is over. What to do if you missed the bull market?

The Government Is Offering Relief. Here’s What It Means for You

A guide to (what we know so far) about the UK's benefits, sick leave, taxes and other forms of financial relief in the age of Covid-19.

Now Is a Really Good Time to Understand How Interest Rates Work

Financial disruption has been coming fast and furious. In the midst, interest rates have been slashed to near zero. Here’s how to understand what that means, and what it’ll do to your mortgage, your savings account, and your investments.

We Discovered the True Identity of the NFT Artist “Pak”

In our latest podcast episode, investigative reporter Alex Palmer tracks down the elusive artist, interviews them, and wonders: what do you do when you know the answer to art’s greatest mystery?

The Wealthsimple Explainer: NFTs

NFTs are suddenly trendy, minting overnight millionaires letting people turn LeBron dunks into assets. But they’re actually more revolutionary than you might think. Here’s what they are, how they work, and why they’re important.

The Pandemic Economy: Why Parenting Inequities Make Mothers Leave the Workforce

Jessica Calarco, a sociologist at Indiana University, has been studying the effects of the pandemic on mothers. What she’s found is that entrenched inequities, when it comes to stuff like housework and parenting, have created an invisible employment crisis for women.

We Fact-Check Theories About Meme Stocks and Online Brokerages

Brokerages stopped trading on stocks like GameStop, issued warnings when people tried to trade, and even had to raise billions to shore up their businesses. There’s a hurricane of misinformation about why all that happened. Here we weigh in on what’s true, what’s false, and what we just don’t know the answer to.

How the GameStop Phenomenon Happened. And Why the Losers May Not Be Who You Think

A conversation with Ben Reeves, resident market genius (and Chief Investment Officer at Wealthsimple), who explains what happened, the changes it shows in the world of investing, and how, in some ways, it reflects the same problems individual investors have always faced.

The Market Value of My Father

When the novelist Joshua Ferris’s family blew up, his mother revealed a truth: his father was worthless, a con man. A bad investment in their lives. But years later, a mysterious book about Wall Street showed up—a gift from his father—that began to change the story.

The Code That Controls Your Money

COBOL is a coding language older than Weird Al Yankovic. The people who know how to use it are often just as old. It underpins the entire financial system. And it can’t be removed. How a computer language controls the financial life of the world.

The Election-Betting Market Was Smarter Than the Polls. Here’s How it Works

Did you know that you could have bet on the presidential election? And that the market couldn’t have been more nuts in the past few days? Here’s an annotated conversation with Brandi Travis, spokesperson for PredictIt, about what happened in one of the wildest weeks of political betting ever.

Economic Freakout 2020: The ‘What Now’ Edition

As the pandemic rages on, and government stimulus winds down, and more global lockdowns loom, we channel our anxiety into a desperate interrogation of Ben Reeves, Wealthsimple’s chief investment officer. On the agenda: interest rates, gold, the end of the world, and whether it’s all going to be OK.

Why Are Stock Market Numbers So Wacko Right Now?

Because the stock market isn't the economy. Ben Reeves, Wealthsimple’s Chief Investment Officer, explains why things like unemployment are so terrible while the stock market has spent the past months at or near record highs.