Brent Beardsley, global head of wealth and asset management at Boston Consulting Group, says more wealth management firms with a wirehouse — or integrated broker — model are looking to increase revenues from advisers
by automating advice: «If you look at the big wirehouses, you'll see the role of the adviser has changed now that portfolio management is increasingly being managed centrally.
Not exact matches
The
automated financial
advice is generated
by software programs developed
by specialized wealth management firms that take your information and run it through their calculators.
Venture - backed robo - advisors, such as Betterment, Personal Capital and Wealthfront, are competing with new
automated investment
advice services launched earlier this year
by Charles Schwab and Vanguard.
With Path
by Wealthfront you can cut out that middle man and get
automated advice tailored to your specific situation, and get up and running with a plan of action in just a few minutes.
Access to online
automated investment
advice is more likely to be offered
by the plan provider (32 %) rather than through an independent third - party (17 %) although there are differences
by plan size.
By Ron Friedmann, Fireman & CompanyIn 2015, we regularly read about
automating legal
advice with artificial intelligence (AI), especially with IBM Watson.
Mencap aims to improve access to social care and is therefore attempting to i) gather powerful data in order to influence local and national decision makers; ii) provide early
advice with the help of solicitors and barristers working pro bono; and iii) improve legal education
by training care managers to spot legal problems and developing a chat bot — an «
automated legal brain» which is interactive and can provide information and rights and redress.
The
automated workflow and content solutions will allow lawyers to focus the real added value that they provide; that is interpreting facts in a legal context to provide
advice on an individual case
by case basis.
See my papers on Slaw: (1) «Legal
Advice Services Can not be
Automated by Alternative Business Structures,» October 10, 2014; (2) «CanLII as the solution to the unaffordable legal services problem,» October 24, 2013; (3) «LSUC's Worrisome ABS Proposals,» November 25, 2014.
See immediate ROI
by automating the low value, repetitive tasks of your tax work: collecting / validating data, calculating tax implications and adjustments, and drafting investment
advice or populating tax returns.
See my Slaw posts, «LSUC's Worrisome ABS Proposals» (Nov. 25, 2014); and, «Legal
Advice Services Can not Be
Automated by Alternative Business Structures» (Oct. 9, 2014).
Having said this, we are confident that
automated legal services and personal legal
advice based on trust and integrity can and will exist side
by side leaving ample room for specialised law firms like JSP Jakob Studen Partner.
Saving 50 % of your income might be out of reach for many people, but you can probably get to 30 % just
by borrowing some
advice from newly minted Nobel Prize winner Richard Thaler:
Automate everything.
When doing so, however, they do not realize they are alienating each audience
by not being able to include the keyword relevance needed to get through both the
automated and human screeners,» says Samantha Nolan, a résumé and job search
advice columnist and owner of Ladybug Design.
Industry watchers say third - party publishers often do a better job meeting consumers» seemingly insatiable demand for information
by «mashing up» listing data, public property records,
automated home valuations, market intelligence and even user - generated content like agent ratings and
advice.