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Professor Vasant Dhar weighs in on the future of computer-generated investment advice

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Excerpt from Fast Company -- "Personal finance is another new area for algorithmic, data-driven predictions, with a number of new 'robo-advisor' apps. 'We’re getting used to computers actually being pretty credible in terms of the recommendations they make,' says Vasant Dhar, a professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business and its Center for Data Science. 'It’s not that much of a stretch, where [a computer] actually says, here’s what I suggest with your portfolio.''

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