The real future of affordable and accessible advice

QAR (Quality of Advice Review) is about making financial planning advice affordable and accessible to ordinary Australians. Qualified, licensed advisers have seen their numbers fall to nearly half as education and compliance requirements suffocate them and force up the cost of giving advice. According to Adviser Ratings, only 10.1% of consumers saw a wealth adviser…

You can’t have a robot in a meeting!

You can’t have a robot in a meeting!

You can’t have a robot in a meeting! Seems you can and it will probably become common. Microsoft’s robot (Artificial Intelligence) will listen in on your Microsoft Team meetings, take minutes and suggest follow-up action. It can also scan inboxes, documents and spreadsheets to draft emails and presentations. You can (for example), ask it to…

Quo Vadis QAR?

Quo Vadis QAR? Michelle Levy’s Quality of Advice Review (QAR), seems keen to put the banks back in business flogging their products to trusting customers, with the only protection that the advice be “good”, rather than in the customer’s “best interests”. Will bank employees who thought their job was to help customers with their banking…