As the learning capability of machines continues to improve, advisors are increasingly finding themselves outmaneuvered by robots. These digital advisors are particularly appealing to millennials, who now represent close to half of the U.S. online banking population. To that end, there is a technological gap as well as a demographic vulnerability that advisors are facing, especially as they help consumers with the dual challenge of managing short-term spending and long-term financial planning. To read the full article in FinancialPlanning, click: How Advisors Can Outthink Robots.
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In fairly short order, robots have begun taking over in the corporate world. Don’t be alarmed. This is nothing like the feared “singularity,” that prophesied (if dubious) moment when machines become smarter than humans and then, to prove it, commence wiping us out. David McCann delves into this change to corporate finance processes. To read the full article in CFO, click: Robots, Robots Everywhere.
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Plus: A Black Box that Performs Business Valuations for Privately Held Companies? The Scenario Might Not Be as Far-Fetched as You Think Not too long ago I had lunch w/a senior valuation guy, someone who’s made his living in the field for some 30 years, and was there almost from the first days The National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (NACVA) was formed and Shannon Pratt began publishing his first books. His thesis? On the horizon are electrical cars that drive themselves; computers that calculate things in miliseconds that third graders used to be taught to manually construct…