FAAA Congress agenda fostering collaboration and growth as a profession

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The inaugural Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) Congress will give financial advisers the opportunity to gain valuable insights into the many changes currently taking place in the financial planning profession.

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Understanding emotions key to successful advice

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Understanding some of the basic principles of behavioural science can help financial advisers to design better “advice experiences” for their clients. An experience that’s centred around a client’s goal achievement,

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Advice Intelligence launches new world financial planning technology

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Advice Intelligence (a.i.) has launched Version 1.0 of it’s software platform to financial advisers across Australia. This launch marks the start of a ‘new world’ financial planning movement that will

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a.i. sees opportunity to break down financial advice barriers

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For the financial planning industry to evolve and rebuild trust with the consumer, it must first listen to what consumers want and then deconstruct the barriers that daunt the consumer

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Breaking down inequality: the different sex debate

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The equality theme is highly topical in our society today. Australians will soon learn the outcome of a postal vote on same sex marriage. Leaving out the politics, the ‘postal

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Fear and loathing from Silicon Valley

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An all-pervasive feature of modern life is the speed of technological change, and of our collective capacity to adapt to the multiple impacts of change. It is natural to question

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How digital automation can help offset Australia’s 492 per cent regulation boom (and restore a little trust)

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Damage control does not come cheap. Just ask Dongjin Koh, President of Mobile at Samsung Electronics. Koh told press in October this year that the total recall of the inflammable

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Are we there yet? The 4 levels of digital financial advice automation

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In a previous article I wrote about the limitations of the recent ASIC guide on digital automated advice (RG 255) and made comparison with the regulatory control of driverless car technology in the

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What ASIC, grappling with the lawless state of Australian robo advice, must learn from the driverless car industry

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As global tech heavyweights Google and Apple, along with emerging automotive brand Tesla and even global taxi industry disrupter Uber vie for dominance in the fast developing ‘driverless car’ space,

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Why ROBO advice is more human than you think

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Let’s define ROBO. artificial intelligence (ai) ROBO is the creation of intelligent machines that work and react like humans. It’s computer science that incorporates knowledge, reasoning, problem solving, perception, learning

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