CEO & Co-Founder of www.advicefront.com. Democratizing financial advice. I love product design, growth & strategy, and ride waves in my spare time.
José Supico
The machines are taking over, we are told. Huge advances in artificial intelligence in recent years means robots will soon be driving our cars, flying our planes and cleaning our homes. According to McKinsey Global Institute, the consultancy, artificial intelligence-powered machines will take 800 million jobs worldwide by 2030. The question people like me want […]
José Supico
You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time, Abraham Lincoln once said. These words always echo in my mind when I think of adviser trade bodies and the people […]
José Supico
Pablo Picasso, the celebrated Spanish painter and pioneer of the Cubist movement, had this advice: “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” Señor Picasso might have thought again, one suspects, had he come across the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Because Britain’s financial services regulator is almost always unimpressed […]
José Supico
Last summer, financial planner Pete Matthew took to Twitter to ask a fascinating question: “Why is there no fluid, extensible, mobile-friendly, connected client fact-find app in the UK financial services space?” At the time, it struck me as coming from a place partly of bemusement and partly of frustration. Pete reminded me that advisers must […]
José Supico
It’s 2019. There are a few things guaranteed to happen in and around the next 12 months: pledges to lose weight, rising rail fares and a bit of paperwork and/or office spring cleaning. Another sure bet, a little later in the year, is having to pay ever more towards the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) […]
José Supico
Most aspects of modern life are focused on the “I” – whether it’s a star fund manager generating alpha, or a sales person clinching the final deal – and we often ignore all the other important people behind the scenes. In fact, aside from in sport, we rarely celebrate the whole team victory. But a […]
José Supico
Technology, for all its critics, has raised the bar in our everyday lives. We order Christmas presents on Amazon, we book an Uber at the end of the staff party and we watch Netflix on our Apple Macs. We want everything here and now, if not sooner. Including financial advice. So, are Millennials who get […]
José Supico
Here’s a horror story for you: Financial advisers are spending nearly five hours a week on “unnecessary” tasks. This amounts to around one in every eight working hours and is costing advisers a whopping £220 per week in wasted time! We know this because we’ve just asked 86 financial advisers from across the UK to […]
José Supico
Advicefront has been invited to attend the 15th anniversary of the Master Investor Show on the March 25th, 2017 at London’s Business Design Centre in Islington. Master Investor is the most visited event for investors in the UK, enabling private investors to meet the CEOs and founders of companies they can invest into. Our team […]
José Supico
You have probably noticed the constant chattering in the media about robo-advisers and how they will take all our jobs away. Is this simply hype, or do you think there might be something deeper going on in our industry? Some experts have suggested that within the next 10 years 50% of advisory firms will disappear […]
