Can Big Data Make Risk Tolerance Questionnaires Obsolete?
This week, we remember a seminal event in the history of artificial intelligence. It was the twentieth anniversary of world chess champion Gary Kasparov’s loss to IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer. I was fortunate to be in attendance when Kasparov gave a keynote speech at the 2017 Envestnet Advisor Summit, where he spoke about his latest book, Deep Thinking. […]
Riskalyze Expands Beyond Profiling to Become a TAMP Supermarket
The waiting is over. And we didn’t have to wait all that long. We finally know what Riskalyze CEO Aaron Klein did with the $20 million in Series A funding the firm raised last October. They built their own Turnkey Asset Management Platform (TAMP). The reveal occurred at last week’s T3 Advisor Conference in Los Angeles, CA. Klein kicked […]
3 Ways Personality Testing Crushes Risk Tolerance Questionnaires
Considering the tidal wave of fear-driven headlines these days, it’s tough focusing on the biggest issue we should be worrying about. Climate change causing the oceans to rise? Over-exuberant stock market heading for a crash? The New England Patriots winning another Super Bowl? The problem is that human brains just aren’t wired to make accurate risk predictions. Financial advisors […]
How Risk Tolerance Software Is Disrupting Wealth Management
What is the internal force that pushes people to try and solve a problem that almost no one else realizes is even there? How does building a better mousetrap go from unrealistic idea to working software to a revenue-generating business? And how do we know if it something we even need? This process has already occurred with risk […]
Risk Management for Financial Advisors Made Easy
“Living at risk is like jumping off a cliff and building your wings on the way down.” ― Ray Bradbury “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” ― Warren Buffett It often seems that the world has been just lurching from one crisis to the next, playing havoc with buy and hold strategies and modern portfolio […]
