#SFTW: An interview with founder of Australia’s fastest growing robo-adviser

Posted by Robin Powell on November 4, 2016

SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND

There’s been a big response to the amusing video we ran earlier in the week — in which pranksters from the Australian robo-adviser Stockspot attempted to present awards for underachievement to some of Sydney’s worst-performing fund houses. To find out more, we thought we’d interview Chris Brycki, Stockspot’s CEO and founder, about how the video came about. founder

Read the interview with Chris here

 

My friend, Gina Miller founder

Suddenly everyone’s talking about Gina Miller. Who is the woman behind the High Court appeal that ended in today’s historic ruling that the Government must seek Parliamentary approval before triggering Article 50? As it happens, I’m well placed to answer that question, having known and worked with Gina for several years.

It was in 2011 that I first made contact with Gina while researching an online documentary I was making called Passive Investing: The Evidence. She and her husband Alan, a former fund manager, have for many years been staunch advocates of index funds. They also ran the True and Fair Campaign, which highlighted the lack of transparency in the UK investing industry, particularly around fees and charges. founder

Read the full article here

 

Our podcasting debut founder

Ta-dah. Here it is. The very first TEBI podcast, produced and sponsored by Regis Media.

It’s 15 minutes long, and it features Craig Lazzara and Tim Edwards from S&P Dow Jones Indices on what the latest SPIVA data tells us about active fund performance.

Listen to the podcast here

 

Australia’s fat cats made to look silly founder

If you haven’t yet seen this video, you must! It was produced by Stockspot, Australia’s fastest growing automated investment service. founder

I love this company. Its mission, its says, is “to make professional portfolio management accessible to more Australians. We want to do away with the high fees, confusing jargon, endless paperwork and lack of transparency that gives the wealth management industry a bad reputation.”

For the last three years, it has issued a Fat Cat Funds Report, charting the performance if nearly 4,000 superannuation and managed funds.

To highlight the findings of this year’s report, it’s produced a spoof awards video to “honour” the fund management companies which, it claims, have skimmed the most from investors’ returns in fees and charges.

The video is so hilarious it’s little wonder it has already amassed more than half a million views on social media.

Watch the video here

 

Worth reading founder

The power of markets (Mark Hebner)

Good books for new investors (Get Rich Slowly)

A case study in investing objectivity (Barry Ritholtz)

Life’s a drag when you aren’t diversified (Value Walk)

Why smart people make bad decisions (Morgan Housel)

Which risks are diversifiable, and which aren’t? (GestaltU)

7 ways an adviser can improve client retention (Josh Brown)

Some things that haven’t been around very long (Ben Carlson)

Five things you need to learn about investing (Joachim Klement)

Research shows that financial distress is set early in life (Squared Away)

Don’t play the active management game if you aren’t willing to lose (Mullooly Asset)

Robin Powell

Robin is a journalist and campaigner for positive change in global investing. He runs Regis Media, a niche provider of content marketing for financial advice firms with an evidence-based investment philosophy. He also works as a consultant to other disruptive firms in the investing sector.

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