Corentin Scavée
21 Feb 2025
Easyvest challenges private banking with an offer dedicated to large portfolios
Brussels, February 24. Forget about automated management! Easyvest, Belgium’s leading index investing firm, is now competing with private banking through a simple promise: exceptional long-term returns and highly personalized service.
"Index investing was traditionally seen as unsuitable for high-net-worth individuals due to the complexity of their wealth," explains Corentin Scavée, co-founder and Chief of Wealth Management at Easyvest. "However, this complexity is not about managing their financial assets but rather the specific challenges they face: structuring private and professional assets, estate planning, joint ownership, usufruct arrangements... These are primarily tax and legal matters rather than questions of active or passive investment strategies."
Over the past decade, global indices have outperformed most Belgian active managers across all investment horizons and risk profiles. The 2024 performance analysis of Easyvest confirms this trend, showing a subsequent average annual return gap between passive investing and a sample of Belgian active managers.
With such a strong track record, Easyvest is attracting increasingly wealthy clients and has specialized its teams to address their concerns. The fintech now offers high-net-worth investors not only a selection of the best ETFs but also a range of services tailored to complex wealth situations. These include training sessions, account structuring (joint ownership, usufruct, corporate accounts), portfolio audits, and estate planning—all at fees between 0,40% and 1% per year, on average twice as low as most private banks.
"We firmly believe that the future of wealth management lies in guided index investing," says Corentin Scavée. "It’s an approach that combines performance, transparency, cutting-edge digital tools, and personalized advice—without unnecessary fees. If barriers remain, they are primarily psychological: attachment to a prestigious institution, inertia, fear of change... But the trend is irreversible. The amount of assets invested in index funds is growing exponentially, and time will eventually break down the last barriers."
About Easyvest
Easyvest SA is a fintech regulated by the FSMA as a portfolio management company, specializing in index investing. Founded in 2016 by Matthieu Remy (Civil Engineer UCL, MBA Harvard Business School) and Corentin Scavée (Louvain School of Management), Easyvest currently serves 3.900 clients, managing over €275 million in investments. Whether through individual investments or collective schemes like the Easyvest Pension Fund, the mission remains the same: ensuring Belgians a comfortable retirement with the best possible returns. www.easyvest.be
Contact & Interviews
Corentin Scavée, Co-founder & Chief of Wealth Management
corentin.scavee@easyvest.be
+32 478 97 97 31