Convincing Prospects: How To Discuss Risk and Goals
As advisors are adopting wealth management technology, they seem to be focused on the risk tolerance aspect of risk system implementation. But building a portfolio by subordinating everything else to...Read More
The Problem With Robo-Advisors’ Use of Mean Variance Optimization
Letting machines that are essentially error maximizers automatically build investment portfolios is not a great idea. In fact, it’s a terrible idea for your clients. However, the first generation of...Read More
When Black Swans Meet Robo-Advisors
According to the recent 2014 Scottrade Advisor Survey, financial advisors are well aware of the robo-threat to their business. However, when asked about the potential problems with online portfolio management...Read More
“Who’s Your Robo?”
Bob Clark tells a story about a fouled-up online customer experience, and says that when things go wrong, you need a human in the loop to fix them. So he’s not worried...Read More
Important Note: Early Warning In Financial Markets
As you know, Portfolio Crash Testing is used by advisors to differentiate and to find threats to clients’ wealth. PCT also helps you create more suitable portfolios with the optimizer...Read More
What does Riskalyze ‘Risk Number’ really measure?
What does Riskalyze Risk Number really measure? Disclosure of calculation and methodology essential for meaningful discussion. Riskalyze has responded to our criticism of the math behind their interest rate stress test....Read More
Crash Tests, Clairvoyants and Risk Managers
This blog entry is published in the Financial Advisor Magazine Expert Views Risk management is all about finding the suitable risk/return profile. Suitable, that is, to the holder of the...Read More
Why Sharpe Ratio And Other Traditional Stats Can’t Prepare You For What’s Coming
Are you thinking about interest rate risk and how it might interact with equity risk? If you are using risk models, beware, they can be lying. We can improve the...Read More
Managing Interest Rate Risk For Wealth Management Clients
Majority of the investors are waking up to the fact that fixed income portfolios are not necessarily safest given historically low interest rates and the macroeconomic outlook. The video offers...Read More
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