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…

Why do people seek financial planning advice?

Most people assume we seek financial planning advice to help us achieve our financial goals, but the truth may be a little “darker”. I have often wondered why the percentage of people seeking financial planning advice remains so constant, despite scandals (like the Hayne Commission), onerous compliance requirements and a service that is costly, inefficient…