We are happy to announce a partnership with Canadian Fintech Startup Passiv, to automatically calculate trades and follow a target portfolio asset allocation.
Rebalance Instantly
Canadian Investors can use Passiv Lite for free within Wealthica.
Wealthica makes it possible for self-directed investors to automatically load one's ETF portfolio into Passiv and calculate trades needed based on the…
Index investing, passive investing or Couch Potato investing is meant to reduce your costs (i.e. low management fees) while beating most of the mutual funds and/or advisor-managed accounts. The strategy is no secret: you choose a few low cost index-trade funds (ETFs) to create your own all-ETF portfolio according to your risk profile and…
Happy New Year! ?
We’re happy to be starting off the year with a new product update for January.
We’ve added several new add-ons to facilitate your investment management, announced a partnership with Fintech Station, and continue to improve your user experience on Wealthica.
But before we go further into our product update, an early 2020…
Have you ever wondered if your portfolio is properly diversified and protected against downside? Wealthica is excited to announce the Wealthscope Portfolio Scorecard, available on Wealthica. The scorecard is available to all Wealthica users through a monthly or annual subscription.
Interestingly, while it is not difficult to find individual stock or fund reports (most brokerages provide…
Yahoo! Finance has a great app for stock quotes and news.
You might like to use Yahoo! Finance mobile app to stay informed about the stocks you watch or own. Keeping your Yahoo! Finance watch list in sync with your actual portfolio might be a challenge.
Wealthica solves this problem for you…
Great news for the Fintech ecosystem in Canada! ?
Free Wealthica API Access
As an official partner of the Montréal Fintech Station, Wealthica has teamed up with Finance Montréal to offer free access to its API to tenants; meaning Fintech Station startups and developers will have the opportunity to integrate functionalities of Wealthica into their offering.
Finance…
Peer-to-peer lending (P2P) is a great addition to your investment portfolio with added diversification and monthly fixed-income. In Canada, the peer-to-peer lending leader is Lending Loop. Wealthica now allows you to consolidate your Lending Loop Returns and Performance with your full investment portfolio. Let's explore how Wealthica can help you track your Lending Loop…
What's new for Wealthica in November December....
December is already here. ?
It’s almost time for us to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Let’s put your Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping lists aside for a few minutes and review what’s been happening in December for Wealthica.
We're at $5B
We won’t be bragging about…
Let's start with some great news:
We are now tracking more than $4.5B in aggregated investments!
That's a lot of zeros : $4,500,000,000
Thank you all for trusting us with your investing data.
With your support, we've reached $4.5B in aggregated investment value and it won't stop getting better. Hopefully, we'll be tracking $10B at the…
In the 82nd episode of the Fintech Impact podcast, Jason Pereira, a well-known financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Wealthica's co-founder and CEO Simon Boulet. We simply think this could be the best interview about Wealthica and Canadian Open Banking to date!
https://soundcloud.com/fintechimpact/wealthica-with-simon-bolet
Notable quotes:
● “We built Wealthica from the ground up: multi-currency, multi-language,…
I recently caught up with Pauline Shum Nolan, PhD and CEO of Toronto-based PW Portfolio Analytics Inc., the maker of Wealthscope.
Wealthscope has just released an add-on for Wealthica: a suite of portfolio tools and comprehensive analytics for Wealthica users to better understand and manage their investments. We discussed the history of the Wealthscope platform,…
In May 2019, Navdeep Bains, Canada's federal Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, announced a Digital Charter which enumerates 10 principles for modernizing the rules guiding digital technology in the country.
There are two principles in it that are quite relevant towards the adoption of Open Banking. The third states “Canadians will have…
I had an opportunity to sit down with Vancouver-based software developer and Wealthica supporter Elayamani Krishnamoorthi. He is the author of the Portfolio Tracker Add-On for Wealthica, which enables users to compare their portfolio value against the total deposits made as of date.
We discussed what attracted him to Wealthica, his reasons for conceiving the…
Time flies! Today Wealthica celebrates its fourth anniversary. The team has worked hard and these are our bragging rights for this special occasion. The reality is you, the Wealthica users, make us feel like each day of Wealthica is an anniversary day. ?
You promoting Wealthica either by email, on Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and other…
Wealthica has recently enhanced its realized gains reports, now providing Adjusted Cost Base (ACB) to its users. In this article, we’ll brush up on those key concepts, and discuss the benefits of the ACB calculation method.
Realized Gains 101
Capital gains are profits on an investment. When you sell investments at a higher price than what you…
I recently sat down with Dario Kachel, CEO and Founder at CoinTracking, and Wealthica’s CEO Simon Boulet. Munich, Germany-based CoinTracking recently partnered with Wealthica; it is a platform that analyzes all your cryptocurrency transactions and generates in real-time a vast amount of useful insights such as the profit / loss of your trades, the value…
Connecting your Wealthsimple account to Wealthica has never been easier. Wealthsimple joins Questrade, WealthBar and Interactive Brokers in allowing their clients open access to their data through a secure API. This means you no longer need to enter your credentials when connecting your Wealthsimple account to Wealthica.
If you already have your Wealthsimple account connected to…
You’ve been asking for a mobile app for a long time.
We’re happy to announce that it’s finally here!
You can now track your entire net worth and investments on your mobile phone. Available for both Android and iOS, the new Wealthica App is the perfect companion to Wealthica’s web dashboard. Wealthica allows you to stay…
The Department of Finance Canada has launched a public consultation on the merits of open banking. Concretely, what would open banking legislation in Canada mean for Wealthica users? It could enable easier access to your data through third party apps like ours, perhaps without even entering your credentials. Such would also regulate how data is…
It's nearly the end of the year and it's time to reflect on our successes as well as challenges. Instead of writing a typical year end recap, I asked several Wealthica team members and partners about their own experience in the last 12 months.
Simon Boulet, CEO and Co-Founder
"There was really two main goals for…
On October 30 at the Canada Fintech Forum conference, I met with both Simon Boulet (CEO and co-founder of Wealthica) and Patrick Kuczynski, CFA (COO and co-founder of ShareAlpha, a platform for DIY investors). Last month, Patrick and his team launched an add-on for Wealthica users; the event at the Palais des congrès de Montréal…
The Canada Fintech Forum in Montreal is the biggest event of its kind in the country. Of course, the Wealthica team was there at the 2018 edition which took place on October 30 and 31. Simon Boulet, our CEO and co-founder gave a rare video interview in which we discussed his impression of the conferences,…
We are excited to announce the release of the latest version of Wealthica.
This new release adds support for importing data from Great-West GRS and BMO adviceDirect, and fixes an outstanding issue that would prevent realized gains from being properly calculated. All transactions that did not have their realized gain set were reprocessed using the…
I sat down with Patrick Kuczynski, co-founder and Chief Operations Officer (COO) of ShareAlpha, a Montreal-based stock market investing tool that helps DIY investors find new investment ideas in seconds that match their investing style (I previously interviewed him last year on behalf of Fintech publication BankNXT). Patrick and his team recently developed an add-on…
I recently caught up with Simon Boulet, CEO and co-founder of Wealthica. This is a follow up to an interview Nuadox (a publication I manage) has published last March. We discussed the meaning of “Open Data”, recent changes in the Canadian Open Banking space and the potential benefits of financial aggregation for established financial institutions.
Phil…