The growing demand for digital investment advisory services and the advancing technological process led to increased attention to this topic in recent literature. In light of these developments, the question arises whether conventional and digital advisors behave differently in their investment...

"Banking is necessary, banks are not." Diese vielzitierte Aussage von Bill Gates aus dem Jahre 1994 lässt sich nicht nur allgemein mit Blick auf die Veränderungen des Bankwesens seit der Finanzkrise 2007/2008 heranziehen, sondern insbesondere angesichts seiner Umbrüche aufgrund sogenannter...

The area of online investing is reshaping the financial industry through the emergence of numerous new providers with innovative concepts. This has led to new challenges for customers, such as how to assess the reliability and trustworthiness of the new providers and their offers. This...

The area of online investing is reshaping the financial industry through the emergence of numerous new providers with innovative concepts. This has led to new challenges for customers, such as how to assess the reliability and trustworthiness of the new providers and their offers. This...

Adaptive online platforms, powered by artificial intelligence, commonly referred to as robo-advice, steadily increase their market share. Yet these comparably new financial services are critically understudied. Little is known about why some investors adopt robo-advice for something as essential...

Poor debt-management skills lower financial security and wealth accumulation. Because optimal solutions to credit repayment problems depend on neither risk preferences nor beliefs, loan repayment is a prime application for robo-advising. Vulnerable households, though, tend to distrust new...

The central issue of this paper is analysis and resulting proposals to help unsophisticated pension participants achieve pension portfolios that match their level of risk aversion when there is a large amount of unexplained heterogeneity in risk aversion. Target date funds are commonly used as...

The central issue of this paper is analysis and resulting proposals to help unsophisticated pension participants achieve pension portfolios that match their level of risk aversion when there is a large amount of unexplained heterogeneity in risk aversion. Target date funds are commonly used as...

One of the most consequential yet unexamined developments in finance is the recent evolution of large financial technology platforms. In the first analysis of its kind, we scrutinize the world's $50 trillion investment and asset management industry to explore the function of these systems, to...

Spätestens seit dem Jahr 2020 nimmt die mediale Berichterstattung von Robo-Advisors in Deutschland zu. Diese digitale Anlageverwaltung kann dazu beitragen, neue Ertragsquellen zu erschließen und die Kundenbedürfnisse nach innovativen Finanzprodukten zu befriedigen. Philippe Krahnhof eruiert...