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Are Automated Investment Managers better than Mutual Funds or ETFs?

Marry White  •  Messages: 2  •  Years on forum: 11.3 12:15 PM 07/27/2014
What

Haley Birmingham  •  Messages: 3  •  Years on forum: 11.3 07:34 PM 07/29/2014
I use them, but so far I think they don't exist enough to have a proper judgment about their benefits or negative sides

Anne Prine   •  Messages: 5  •  Years on forum: 11.2 02:00 AM 08/01/2014
Automated advisors have the following benefits which I personally wanted for ages:
- low commissions (0.25% vs. 1-2%)
- objectivity
- systematic rebalancing based on numerical criteria vs. personal judgment of a portfolio manager
- Automated tax loss harvesting

Haley Foster  •  Messages: 6  •  Years on forum: 11.3 10:13 AM 08/02/2014
This paper provides good research and thinking about this question: http://www.pragcap.com/should-you-use-an-automated-investment-service

Dee Ann Foster  •  Messages: 5  •  Years on forum: 11.3 08:20 AM 08/04/2014
Don't forget that Auto Advisors invest in ETS, so they are just more advanced way to invest in ETFs: follow index + regular rebalancing. So the real alternative is an Auto Advisors vs. Mutual Funds



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