Uber-Betterment Collaboration Draws in 2,500 Retirement Savers

More than 2,500 Uber drivers used Betterment, an online financial advice service, to get on the road to retirement in the first year of the ride-share giant’s collaboration with the robo-adviser.

“If you look at the market, the amount of people who have used the service is in line with what we’d expected” when the companies announced their partnership one year ago, Joe Ziemer, Betterment’s vice president of communications, told Bloomberg BNA Aug. 25.

The conversation about workers in the freelance—or “gig"—economy has grown over the past several years as more Americans pick up odd jobs through the use of ...