Energy Super selects Decimal’s Eqilize robo-advice solution
DECIMAL Software announced that Energy Super, an industry super fund with more than 49,000 members, had selected its Eqilize robo-advice platform. Launched at the end of March, Eqilize is a pre-configured offering which leverages Decimal’s delivery experience to enable clients to deliver robo-advice within a fixed budget and short timeframe. It includes multiple topics, in-built compliance and can be easily integrated with other business systems and is delivered with consistency of the customers branding and online presence. Decimal CEO Nic Pollock said the deal validated the company’s superior technology, experience and decision to launch Eqilize to the market. “This is a validation of our two-tiered solution offering that addresses the […]
QuietGrowth adds multi-risk portfolio feature
Investors using robo-adviser QuietGrowth’s online platform will now be able to allocate portions of their savings towards different objectives, thanks to a new feature. QuietGrowth chief executive Dilip Sankarreddy said investors and advisers have access to a goals-based investment portfolio, allowing them to tailor the portfolio to their specific needs. “[Investors can now] allocate their savings towards different goals or objectives, with different risk-return expectations,” he said. “Saving for retirement, your child’s education, a house or a holiday are all very different objectives. It makes sense, therefore, that investors should be able to choose portfolios for different levels of risk,” said Mr Sankarreddy. According to the robo-advice firm, investors can […]
Former FPA boss joins fintech group Intiger Asset Management
Mark Rantall, the former chief executive of the Financial Planning Association of Australia, has emerged as the new non-executive chairman of fintech group Intiger Asset Management, which is eyeing a listing on the Australian Securities Exchange. As first revealed by Street Talk, Mr Rantall, who exited the FPA in February, said he left with the “clear objective of taking on non-executive director roles”. He took on the chairman role after a recommendation by fellow adviser Patrick Canion, of ipac WA. Intiger is a fintech group seeking to slash operating costs for advisers and help them compete more efficiently with robo-advice, which is threatening traditional advice models by providing financial plans […]
Ignition Wealth launches “Teams” automated advice technology for Financial Businesses
Ignition Wealth today announced the launch of their new technology solution ‘Teams’, designed to support professional financial businesses as they adopt automated financial advice. Ignition Wealth will lead the presentations at the Melbourne Afiniation Fintech Showcase with the launch of their new Teams product. The Melbourne Afiniation Fintech Showcase will take place on April 14 at the Grand Hyatt Melbourne. CTO Mike Giles will demonstrate the new Ignition Wealth Teams technology to a crowd of over 200 fintech professionals and investors. “The wealth industry has traditionally been heavily paper based and the first opportunity is to bring those processes, including buying and selling of stocks and reporting, into an online […]
Financial planner and bitcoin entrepreneur launch new robo-advice business
Perth-based financial planner David Pettit has teamed up with well-known Australian bitcoin entrepreneur Zhenya Tsvetnenko to fund and develop a new robo-advice platform that will advise users how to plan their financial lives. Mr Pettit, the founder and managing director of boutique Perth advice firm Advocate Private Wealth, and Young Richlister Mr Tsvetnenko conceived Future Penny six months ago, and have both personally invested, with a range of other investors, to give it $500,000 in development capital. Future Penny would be the latest player in the burgeoning robo-advice sector, which provides financial advice to users generated by algorithms. It will provide information across a broad range of areas including budgeting, […]
BlackRock mulling Aussie robo-advice launch
BlackRock acquired FutureAdvisor in August 2015 and rolled out the platform to financial institutions as a business-to-business service. BlackRock Australia’s head of iShares Jon Howie told InvestorDaily he believes Australia needs FutureAdvisor now. “As always with a large organisation we have to be conscious about how thinly we spread ourselves and so at the moment the focus is on getting the US application of that opportunity right,” Mr Howie said. “I can tell you that internally everyone around the world is putting their hand up and saying, ‘We can make this work in our market’. “BlackRock Australia needs the platform immediately, because it will take some time to tweak the […]
Decimal to roll out robo-advice for instos
Decimal has announced today it will launch two robo-advice packages designed to help big businesses break into the emerging automated advice market sooner. In a statement, the company said Eqilize is a solution geared towards superannuation and financial institutions that want to offer clients robo-advice but do not have the resources to build their own. At the same time Decimal introduced Tentalon, a “fully customisable technology stack” that allows businesses to create purpose-built solutions. Eqilize will be presented to the industry at an event on 28 April, while Tentalon will be rolled out for major banks in early May, the statement said. Decimal chief executive Nic Pollock said the two […]
Can robots terminate the human adviser?
Financial planners and advisers would scoff at the idea of an automated system, or a robot, providing financial advice to clients based on answers to a few questions and the click of a button. Moreover, advisers are apprehensive of consumers embracing the do-it-yourself approach to investing, arguing that it is impossible for consumers to navigate complex investment choices and the myriad of financial products without guidance from trained advisers. Financial planning dealer group, Wealth Today’s managing director, Greg Pennells, recently labelled robo-advice a ‘cop-out’, and called on the corporate regulator to ban the technology. He said technology is useful for transactional services like buying and selling shares, stockbroking, mortgages, or […]
