Company: WLTH
Filing Date: 2025-06-18
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0001628279-25-000372
Chunk: 62

Company: WEALTHFRONT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-06-18
Form: DRS
Chunk 62
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 fails to detect program errors over an extended period and is found to be liable for such errors, which may include liability for breach of Wealthfront Advisers LLC’s fiduciary duty or applicable law. Additionally, some of our systems depend on the accuracy and completeness of information provided by clients, borrowers, and other third parties. If this information is inaccurate, incomplete, or misrepresented, whether intentionally or unintentionally, our systems or models may produce incorrect results or fail to function as intended. Such program errors may not be detected despite our quality assurance practices.

High-profile instances of fraud or error can also damage our brand, lead to increased regulatory scrutiny, and result in higher costs. There is a need to continually invest in training to develop and maintain in-house expertise to manage these systems effectively and to educate clients and participants in the capabilities, proper use, and competitive differentiation of these offerings, which can be costly and time consuming. Any of these or other errors may negatively impact our reputation, as well as our business, operating results, and financial condition.

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We will be adversely affected if we, or any of our subsidiaries, or our investment advisory programs, are determined to have been subject to registration as an investment company under the 1940 Act.

Generally, a company is an “investment company” required to register under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”) if, absent an applicable exception or exemption, it (i) is, or holds itself out as being, engaged primarily, or proposes to engage primarily, in the business of investing, reinvesting or trading in securities; or (ii) engages, or proposes to engage, in the business of investing, reinvesting, owning, holding or trading in securities and owns or proposes to acquire “investment securities” having a value exceeding 40% of the value of its total assets (exclusive of U.S. government securities and cash items) on an unconsolidated basis.

We do not consider our investment adviser subsidiaries to be investment companies, nor do we hold them out to be. Our investment adviser subsidiaries hold themselves out as investment management firms and do not propose to engage primarily in the business of investing, reinvesting or trading in securities. We believe we are engaged primarily in the business of providing investment management services and not in the business of investing, reinvesting or trading in securities. We also believe our primary source of income is properly characterized as income earned in exchange for the provision of services.