Question: Provide a SWOT analysis using the information from Wealthsimple's SWOT table with at least six insights. STRENGTHS Simple intuitive platform - award winning user experience

Provide a SWOT analysis using the information from Wealthsimple's SWOT table with at least six insights.

STRENGTHS

  • Simple intuitive platform - award winning user experience

  • Strong reviews and reputable brand name

  • Socially responsible investing options

  • Diverse product offerings that span the financial services industry

  • Flexible account options: multiple base currencies and many supported types (TFSA, RRSP, etc)

  • Service extras: rounds-up, portfolio reviews, smart-savings account

  • Insurance-backed investments

  • Product and service emphasis on financial literacy, growth, and freedom

  • 100% online: ease of usage and greater audience reach

  • Promotional deals for existing customers (e.g. refer a friend, Wealthsimple Black and Generation)

  • Strong partnerships with other financial services companies that fill-in-the-gaps in Wealthsimples product offerings

WEAKNESSES

  • Inconsistent customer service: no physical brick and mortar branches, inconsistent email and phone response times

  • Wealtshimple trade does not have many complex features that competitors offer: options, fractional shares

  • Limited options to customize investment goals

  • Lack of intensive financial planning services

  • High account management fees (particularly MER fees)

  • Lack of human interaction

  • Limited presence outside of Canada, US and UK

OPPORTUNITIES

  • Growing trend for cryptocurrency

  • Growing size of middle class and average annual net income

  • Growing consumer support for socially responsible business

  • Development of new technologies, machine learning/AI, big data, 5G

  • Increased adoption of mobile finances

  • Inherited wealth from older generational cohorts to main target market (millennials)

  • Increased demand from small businesses and demand for secure, safe and efficient fiance

  • Mistrust in big-banks by millenials

THREATS

  • Sensitivity to global natural events can cause instability in financial markets (COVID-19, climate changes, etc)

  • Open source finance software hinder market growth

  • Lack of awareness of personal finance options

  • Established competitors entering Canadian market

  • Growing safety and security concerns

  • Risk and volatility associated with financial markets

  • Growing trend to spend and live in the moment rather than invest

  • Uprising automated investing services from banks that hold strong existing customer base and network of services

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