AUTHOR=Boreiko Dmitri , Massarotti Francesca TITLE=How Risk Profiles of Investors Affect Robo-Advised Portfolios JOURNAL=Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence VOLUME=Volume 3 - 2020 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence/articles/10.3389/frai.2020.00060 DOI=10.3389/frai.2020.00060 ISSN=2624-8212 ABSTRACT=

Automated financial advising (robo-advising) has become an established practice in wealth management, yet very few studies have looked at the cross-section of the robo-advisors and the factors explaining the persistent variability in their portfolio allocation recommendations. Using a sample of 53 advising platforms from the US and Germany, we show that the underlying algorithms manage to identify different risk profiles, although substantial variability is evident even within the same investor types' groups. The robo-advisor expertise in a particular asset class seems to play a significant role, as does the geographical location, while the breadth of the offered investment choice (number of portfolios) across the robo-advisors under study does not seem to have an effect.