We’ve been going AI crazy in recent months. Will it be the end of the world as we know it? Will robots rule and leave us Matrix-like, wired-up and dreaming? Will chatbots replace financial advisers and make financial advice affordable for the young and older unadvised? Our regulator, and perhaps those running giant investment-come-advice firms with call centres, are hoping that ‘simplified’, AI-driven non-advice will be at least a part of the future. It may, but if it does, it will, I believe, cement the niche that we and other minnows of the financial services world occupy as real people who can talk to people who need people. Which many, or certainly enough, will continue to do.
“Why people over the age of 55 are the new problem generation”
I suspect that many a ‘boomer’ might be pleased with the ‘problem generation’ label. When they were teen- or twenty-somethings, their parents’ generation may well have either despaired of them or worried about the world into which they were emerging as adults; it will ever be thus.