Andrew Martin: Growing your business with 'chatbot wizardry'

Can help close advice gap

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Automated advice (and the chatbot wizardry) offers a route for IFAs to engage the next generation well before intergenerational wealth transfer begins, writes Andrew Martin

Here at Dunstan Thomas, we've been studying the increasing use of automated advice to support pension accumulation and at-retirement processes. I must thank Pete Connell of Wealth Wizards who provided insights for this piece, which aims to capture how far things have improved since the early days of robo-advice. It's clear that ‘robo advice' has moved on a long way since its origin more than 10 years ago. Early articles on robo-advice indicated IFAs saw it as a trend which threatened their jobs. While regulators took a dim view of turning regulated advice over to the computers. Howeve...

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