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The WEALTHTECH Book
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The WEALTHTECH Book

by Susanne Chishti, Thomas Puschmann
July 2018
Beginner
336 pages
11h 58m
English
Wiley
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How to Give “Sleep-Tight” Robo-Advice

By Paul Resnik

Director Marketing, PanPlus and Co-Founder, FinaMetrica

No investor should ever be surprised by the ups and downs of their portfolio. After paying for financial advice, investors are entitled to “sleep tight”. They should never lie awake worrying about changes in the value of their investments.

Regrettably, sleepless nights will be the norm for many investors. Their mistake? They trusted a robo-advisor – an automated advice process that made an investment recommendation. Unfortunately, many of these automated advisors are badly built and recommend investments that are not suitable for the customer.

So, what is wrong with most robo brains? And why do they recommend unsuitable investments? A key problem is that many robos are simply replicating the poor examples set for them by the human advice process!

The investment industry happily “talks the talk” about making recommendations that are suitable for their customers when it helps win clients while avoiding regulatory intent, but it has a very poor record when it comes to “walking the walk” down the path of investment suitability – the matching of investment products to investors, using tools including risk profiling.

Today, it is the investor’s unrevealed problem. However, after the next major market correction, this will spread the pain. First, it will be the robo’s problem. Soon afterwards, it will become the problem of the sales and marketing departments of the robo, followed ...

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