# Professor Vasant Dhar provides advice on how to choose a financial advisor

1 Faculty News February 17, 2019 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/sound-advice-for-choosing-a-financial-adviser-11550430001) -- "'A robot has no consciousness, no ethics,' says [Vasant Dhar](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar), a professor of information systems at New York University’s Stern School of Business who runs a robo adviser for institutional investors. Without those qualities and the resulting moral code, a robot wouldn’t be capable of always acting on your behalf, he says."

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