Graham Bentley: More than a second's thought

Dealing with chaotic systems

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Plenty of tasks are ripe for automation but, says Graham Bentley, artificial intelligence has some way to develop yet before financial planning becomes one of them

Driving home from a speaking engagement recently, I was amused to overtake a van decorated with a description of its flame-proofing solutions as ‘Firetech'. Adding the suffix ‘tech' to any noun has echoes of ‘dotcom' - something of a magic word almost two decades ago implying new paradigms that ultimately became a curse. Tech has now replaced the word ‘operations', while that most over-applied of sobriquets ‘disruption' often just means "new". We have Fintech and its subsets Insurtech and Banktech. No doubt ops chaps in the investment industry are cursing Investec. New direct-to-consu...

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