{"id":68668,"date":"2016-05-24T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=68668"},"modified":"2016-05-24T12:05:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T08:05:35","slug":"wealthsimple","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/wealthsimple","title":{"rendered":"Wealthsimple Launches Automated Platform to Financial Advisors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 22px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1583\/25519534804_5bfafe83cf_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" \/>Toronto&#8217;s Wealthsimple, an online investment service, has a launched an automated platform for financial advisors to manage their clients&#8217; investment portfolios.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>Wealthsimple for Advisors is a new, digital way for Canadian advisors to maintain their clients&rsquo; portfolios, while letting Wealthsimple help them with the investment management. The robo-advisor handles the entire signup, from KYC to assessing suitability &#8211; freeing up the advisor&rsquo;s time to provide holistic financial planning advice to their clients.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/wealthsimple-2016-05-18\" target=\"_blank\">Wealthsimple Launches Portfolio Review to Give Investors Second Opinion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>&ldquo;It is crucial for the investment industry to innovate, and present advisors with the tools to help their clients become informed investors,&rdquo; says CEO Michael Katchen. &ldquo;We want to work with the industry to provide smart technology and support the advisor&rsquo;s ability to deliver outstanding client experiences.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Wealthsimple will take the first 0.35% of an advisors&#8217; assets on the platform, but advisors are free to add their management fee. <\/p>\n<p>Founded by a team of financial experts and technology entrepreneurs, Wealthsimple is currently registered and operating in every Canadian province and territory. <span>Since launch, Wealthsimple has brought in more than $400M in assets under management with over 10,000 clients on the platform. Last month they were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/the-fintech-five-powered-by-paypal-2016-04-14\" target=\"_blank\">named to PayPal&#8217;s FinTech Five<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto&#8217;s Wealthsimple, an online investment service, has a launched an automated platform for financial advisors to manage their clients&#8217; investment portfolios. Wealthsimple for Advisors is a new, digital way for Canadian advisors to maintain their clients&rsquo; portfolios, while letting Wealthsimple help them with the investment management. The robo-advisor handles the entire signup, from KYC to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":68670,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-68668","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/68668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/68668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68668"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=68668"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=68668"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=68668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}