easyvest raises 3 million euros to become the European leader in PensionTech
Summary
Easyvest, a Brussels scale-up specialist in online investment, announces a capital increase of 3 million euros to accelerate its growth and transform the way Belgians plan their pensions.Led by a panel of entrepreneurs, industry and financing experts (Alfred Bouckaert, Jacques-Martin Philippson, Xavier Pansaers, SRIB, Fabrice Wuyts, Jean-Louis Van Houwe,...), in both the northern and southern parts of the country, this roundtable gives easyvest the means to implement its vision: ensure and simplify Belgians pensions. Ultimately, our ambition is to make easyvest the European leader in PensionTech", explains Matthieu Remy, CEO and co-founder of easyvest.easyvest is about to deploy in its mobile app pension planning functionalities including dynamic views, projections, optimization advice as well as a system of direct contact with expert advisers. "The world of pensions has been turned upside down by low interest rates, large fluctuations in asset values and solvency requirements," explains Alfred Bouckaert. "easyvest SRL was created in 2016 by Matthieu Remy (Civil Engineer UCL, 2006) and Corentin Scav\xe9e (Louvain School of Management, 2006), after Matthieus return from an MBA at Harvard. Convinced that better ways of investing could be offered more cheaply to savers, they founded their business on principles developed by Nobel Prize winner Harry Markowitz and popularized as "robo-advisors".