Advisers with robo capabilities will have an edge

robo-advice GlobalData financial planning

17 August 2018
| By Hannah Wootton |
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While standalone robo-advice won’t attract affluent investors, it will offer a competitive advantage to traditional wealth managers over competitors, GlobalData says.

The research company said that robo-advisers alone didn’t attract assets under management, and that high net worth (HNW) investors generally only entrusted small portfolios to digital-only platforms.

GlobalData’s Technology in Wealth Management: Drivers for Adoption and Future Trends survey found that demand for robo-advice was growing, however, meaning that offering it could strengthen human advisers’ value to clients.

Forty per cent of private wealth managers surveyed noted strong demand for the technology from clients, most obviously in the Asia-Pacific region.

“Despite some drawbacks robo-advice is a competitive advantage that all traditional wealth managers must acquire,” GlobalData financial services analyst, Andrew Haslip, said.

“They are not about to lose their best HNW clients to a start-up robo-advisor, no matter how slick the digital interface. But they might just lose out to a competitor that has adopted the technology and integrated it into its overall private wealth management proposition.

“Although ultimately the human element will remain prominent in the world of financial advice, the industry will continue its technological advancement.”

GlobalData’s finding follows the closure of yet another solely robo-advice firm in America, Hedgeable, which proceeded three similar firms already calling it quits.

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