Friday, November 20, 2015

Big banks adopting Banker Bot

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fidelity Investments is building an automated portfolio-management service for individual investors, joining a growing group of money and brokers that have bought or designed such "robo-advisers," a spokesman for the firm said Friday.
The platform, called Fidelity Go, is being piloted internally now and will be made available next year for a small group of clients to test, according to Fidelity spokesman Robert Beauregard.
Some investors "don't have the skill, will or time to manage their money, and so they turn to a partner," said Beauregard.
Fidelity's platform will make use of the company's own products, which include mutual funds. But the firm will also use funds managed by BlackRock, the largest manager of exchange-traded funds under its iShares brand and a business partner of Fidelity's.

The bot will end up in  our  Smart Cards, but for now Fidelity keeps the bot internal.

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