Robo-advice News Wrap: Financial advisors are scared – Intelliflo

By David Tuckwell on Tuesday 27 June 2017

Savings and Investment

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Financial advisors are scared of robo-advice and equally scared of large product providers going directly to customers, a poll taken at Intelliflo’s conference on Monday has found. Asked what they feared and how much they dwell on it, 74 percent of respondents said they feared either robo or D2C and most said they spent “a fair bit of time” or more thinking about it.

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This article first appeared on www.roboadvicenews.com

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