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Pros & Cons of Using a Robo-Advisor
By Barbara A. Friedberg | Updated April 11, 2017 — 11:07 AM EDT
Robo-advisors are shiny new investment platforms. But what are their advantages and disadvantages? Can all digital financial advisors be painted with a broad brush?
Robo-advisors differ from brokerage to brokerage. The catch-all term includes a class of investment managers and software that uses complicated computer algorithms to administer your investment portfolios. Some robo-advisors are completely automated while others offer access to human assistance as well. Regardless of the model, they all provide customer service to assist you through the process.
The robo-advisor's' overriding assertion is that each company’s proprietary algorithm claims to take the emotion out of investing and will grant the investor better returns for a lower cost than traditional financial advisors. Yet, each advisor can’t have the ‘best’ proprietary algorithm. Let’s look under the hood at the pros and cons of using a robo-advisor.
We’ll start with the cons first and finish up with the advantages of this new and ever-expanding class of investment management.
Cons: What's Wrong with Robo-advisors?
1. They Aren’t Personalized: You’re more than just an investment portfolio. You have many goals, both for the near and long-term. While many robo-advisors now allow you to set and edit your goals using their financial planning software you also have money related issues and concerns which may benefit from a chat with a human being.
Most (although not all) robo-advisors will not hold your hand and talk you off the ledge after a significant market drop. The human financial advisor is there to assuage your fears and explain how the investment markets work. A financial planner works to integrate your finances, taxes, and estate plans. The advisor’s office may have a diverse pool of advisors to help with many aspects of life beyond just ‘money' concerns.
If you want to sell call options on an existing portfolio or buy individual stocks, most robo-advisors won’t be able to help you. There are sound investment strategies that go beyond an investing algorithm. Sophisticated and newbie investors may want a broader investment portfolio with a wider range of asset classes than the typical robo-advisor offers.
2. They Falsely Bash Advisors’ Price Schedules: It’s true that most robo-advisors have low price schedules, but not all. It’s not true that all financial advisors are expensive. There are financial advisors who charge approximately 1.0% of assets under management (AUM) for their services. This fee compares to several robo-advisors.
There are other advisors who will charge an hourly or fee for service. This practice gives the consumer a chance to control costs while receiving more personalized information. The newer ‘web-based’ personal advisors can forgo the cost of a fancy office and serve you personally via web-chat for lower fees. Additionally, there are advisors that ‘lease’ robo-advisors’ platforms and combine them with their own advisory services, thereby cutting fees and charges.
3. Falsely Claim There’s No Place for the Little ‘Guy or Gal’: There are financial advisor alternatives for those without big bucks or those just starting out. The XY Planning Network is a fee-only financial planning collection of advisors with an affordable monthly fee structure. The XY Planning Network advisors also cater to a younger clientele.
A fee-for-service advisor will put a cap on the client’s charges. Trade infrequently with an advisor paid by commission, and your costs can remain low. With the multitude of financial advisors, there are pay models and investment approaches to fit every type of investor.
4. No Face-to-Face Meetings: If you want to sit across the desk of your advisor, then a robo-advisor isn’t for you. The robos don’t have an office where a client walks in and talks directly to an advisor. This type of personal contact is relegated to the traditional financial advisory models. If you’re someone that wants a personal and in-person relationship with your financial advisor, then most robo-advisors aren’t for you. (For more, see: Can You Really Trust a Robo-Advisor?)
Pros: What's to Like about Robo-advisors?
1. Low Fees: Prior to the introduction of the robo-advisor platforms, investors were lucky to receive professionally managed investment assistance for less than 1.0% of assets under management (AUM). The robos have significantly changed that paradigm. From a cost of zero for Charles Schwab Corp.'s Intelligent Portfolios to 0.25% for a Betterment portfolio (after the first free year), there are many low-cost robos to choose from. Wealthfront and Betterment's models favor the cost-conscious consumer.
2. Nobel Prize-Winning Algorithms: Betterment and many of the robo-advisor’s algorithms rely on Nobel Prize-winning investment theory to drive their models.
From Betterment.com, “When the Nobel committee announced last month that Eugene Fama and Robert Shiller would share this year’s prize for economics, it was a great moment for their research in the field of investing—and validation for Betterment, which relies on many of their insights.”
In general, best practices investment theory strives to create an investment poThe Bottom Line
The robo-advisory sphere is just getting started. The new entrants into the landscape benefit the consumer by lowering fees while contributing many paths to professional asset management. As with any life choice, the investor should figure out what type of investment guidance he or she needs and select a robo-advisor or financial professional to suit their individual style.
rtfolio with the greatest return for the smallest risk. From 1990 Nobel Prize winner, Harry Markowitz to 2013 Fama and Shiller winners, the robos use cutting edge investment portfolio research informed by these luminaries to drive their products.
2. Access to Robo-Advisor Services Through a Financial Advisor: It’s becoming more common for traditional financial planning practices to ‘white label’ robo-advisors’ platforms for their clients. This takes the cumbersome task of choosing assets out of their hands so that the financial advisor may spend more time with their clients addressing individual tax, estate, and financial planning issues.
In the Dec. 23, 2014, Advisor Perspectives article, “Three Reasons Why Robo-Advisors are a Huge Benefit to the Advisory Profession,” Bob Veres cites Betterment, Motif, and Trizic as robos with ready-made portfolios available to the advisors. Jemstep also white labels its platform for advisors. This trend gives the consumer an opportunity for lower cost investment management while retaining the personal touch of an advisor.
3. Expanding the Market for Financial Advice: Some consumers, younger investors or those with lower net worth, may not have considered professional financial advice. The robo-advisors are growing the existing market of financial advisory clients. Because of the easy access and lower fee models for prThe Bottom Line
The robo-advisory sphere is just getting started. The new entrants into the landscape benefit the consumer by lowering fees while contributing many paths to professional asset management. As with any life choice, the investor should figure out what type of investment guidance he or she needs and select a robo-advisor or financial professional to suit their individual style.
ofessional financial management, more consumers may choose robo-advisors’ professional management in lieu of the DIY model. (For more, see: Are Robo-Advisors a Good Idea for Young Investors?
4. Robo-advisors Aren’t One-Size Fits All: There are low-fee robo-advisors for different types of clients. For example, if you’re interested in a certain sector or investment theme then Motif’s 151 existing portfolios offers a platform for you. Motif excels at giving their users many idea-based portfolios - there’s a ‘shale gas’ portfolio and even a ‘fight fat’ offering for investors interested in the weight loss providers. The caffeine portfolio culls coffee-related companies for you, mentioned Bob Veres. If your primary concern is rock bottom fees, there are several robo-advisors with broadly diversified low-fee ETF portfolios.
Some robo-advisors claim rebalancing and tax loss harvesting in their arsenal. There are single approach and hybrid style robo-advisors. Other’s such as Rebalance IRA and Personal Capital have higher barriers to entry with respectively, $100,000 to recently lowered $50,000 minimum entry fees. That said, even the robos with high entry requirements are more accessible than the finThe Bottom Line
The robo-advisory sphere is just getting started. The new entrants into the landscape benefit the consumer by lowering fees while contributing many paths to professional asset management. As with any life choice, the investor should figure out what type of investment guidance he or she needs and select a robo-advisor or financial professional to suit their individual style.
ancial advisors with $1 million portfolio minimums.
5. Low Minimum Balances: It’s a boon for investors with a small net worth to get professional robo-advisory management. Zero minimum balance technology enhanced robo-advisors include Folio Investing and Wise Banyan. Betterment has no minimum balance as well. Other robo-advisors are accessible with $1,000 to $5,000 to get started. And Personal Capital is free for those interested in access to portfolio monitoring, with the higher balance tiers reserved for exposure to a dedicated financial advisor.
The Bottom Line
The robo-advisory sphere is just getting started. The new entrants into the landscape benefit the consumer by lowering fees while contributing many paths to professional asset management. As with any life choice, the investor should figure out what type of investment guidance he or she needs and select a robo-advisor or financial professional to suit their individual style.
President Donald Trump’s signing last Tuesday of an Executive Order to effectively nullify the U.S. Clean Power Plan signals the new administration’s support for the coal industry and intention to turns its back on Obama-era climate change efforts. However, the move “won’t derail U.S. decarbonization” due to the plummeting cost of renewable energy and the decreasing profitability of coal power, according to BNEF.
While repealing the bill is deeply symbolic, and spells concern that the U.S. may pull out of the 2015 Paris climate agreement altogether, it will likely have little impact on the U.S. renewable energy industry. The cost of wind and solar farms has dropped significantly in recent years, to the extent that these technologies can now compete with fossil fuel plants on price. Energy generated from the sun and wind accounted for more than half of the new capacity added to U.S. grids in the past two years. In addition, the low price of natural gas is driving down the price of electricity and forcing record numbers of aging coal plants to close.
Crucially, the federal tax credits for wind and solar power, coupled with state laws requiring that utilities source a certain portion of their electricity from renewables, play an important role in fueling the growth of the industry.
“As long as you have the tax credits, you should continue to see solid growth of renewables over the next three to four years,” Ethan Zindler, a senior BNEF analyst in Washington, said in an interview with Bloomberg News.
Even without the Clean Power Plan, BNEF forecasts that wind and solar energy will grow by some 51% in the U.S. over the next three years. Among the plethora of clean energy deals struck in the past week was $59.8 million in loans arranged by GCL New Energy Holdings for an 84.5-megawatt portfolio of solar projects in North Carolina, and First Solar’s sale of a 250MW solar PV plant in Nevada to a unit of Capital Dynamics, the Swiss asset manager.
Nevertheless, President Trump’s move last week to cancel policies quantifying the damage from carbon pollution and regulating methane emissions on federal land are a setback to environmental protection measures in the U.S.
“This is not the time for any country to change course on the very serious and very real threat of climate change,” said Erik Solheim, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program, quoted in the New York Times. “The science tells us that we need bolder, more ambitious commitments.”
There are concerns that last week’s Executive Order puts the U.S. on a path to miss its commitment to cut CO2 emissions 26% from 2005 levels by 2025, agreed at the COP21 negotiations in Paris two years ago. And that this in turn could embolden resistance to climate action in other countries.
Article from Bloomberg News as of 05.04.17
How to understand these figures :
- The US investor had a 55 % profit from 2000 to 2017, in USD
- The Swiss investor lost 4 % of his capital during this same period
- If in 2000 the investor had to give 5 ounces of gold to buy the stocks included in the US index, in 2017, he has to give less than 2 ounces only.
Does it prove the "safe heaven" status of gold ?
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