Reviewing Top Robo-Advisors and General Tips to Choose the Right One for You
Robo-advisors are financial tools providing assistance or investment management online with moderate or no human intervention. There are around 100 robo-advisors on the market nowadays, and most of them are...Read More
The Problem With Robo-Advisors’ Use of Mean Variance Optimization
Letting machines that are essentially error maximizers automatically build investment portfolios is not a great idea. In fact, it’s a terrible idea for your clients. However, the first generation of...Read More
When Black Swans Meet Robo-Advisors
According to the recent 2014 Scottrade Advisor Survey, financial advisors are well aware of the robo-threat to their business. However, when asked about the potential problems with online portfolio management...Read More
The Main Weakness of Robo-Advisors and How You Can Capitalize
Wealthfront brought the Markowitz optimization algorithm to the masses and in many ways the company is a symbol of the democratization of risk management that’s now going on… Let’s use...Read More
Different Tiers For Tax Deferred Investments
It’s no secret that many Americans don’t think enough about retirement, but they should. Especially, if they have no savings, which is true for 33% of the population, and 23% only have 10K put away for retirement
Robo vs. Advisor
In the past few years, robo-advisory platforms gained a lot of traction in the world of financial planning. The first robo-advisory firms were launched in 2008 during the...Read More
On Risk Tolerance and Broken Noses
From risk systems for advisors to algorithms used by robo-advisors, quant risk management has gone mainstream. These systems have gone from being housed on supercomputers at large institutions to cloud-based...Read More
Robos Think It’s A Great Time To Buy Risk Assets
Most people who know a bit about financial markets history know that we are in unprecedented territory with central bank stimulus, gratuitous buybacks, widespread accounting shenanigans. But robo-advisors apparently think...Read More
Robos deny impact from volatility on their AUM growth, straining credibility
AUM growth of first-generation robo-advisors dramatically slowed in light of market volatility, yet statements by robo advisors deny this fact, straining credibility. Financial Planning magazine published the deep dive into...Read More