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$700B Franklin Templeton buys wealth tech AdvisorEngine, while digital investing DeFi revolution only starting
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$700B Franklin Templeton buys wealth tech AdvisorEngine, while digital investing DeFi revolution only starting

$700B Franklin Templeton buys wealth tech AdvisorEngine, while digital investing DeFi revolution only starting

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·May. 11, 2020·1 min read

This week, I pause to reflect on the sales of (1) AdvisorEngine to Franklin Templeton and (2) the technology of Motif Investing to Schwab. Is all enterprise wealth tech destined to be acquired by financial incumbents? Has the roboadvisor innovation vector run dry? Not at all, I think. If anything, we are just getting started. Decentralized finance innovators like Zapper, Balancer, TokenSets, and PieDAO are re-imagining what wealth management looks like on Ethereum infrastructure. Their speed of iteration and deployment is both faster and cheaper, and I am more excited for the future of digital investing than ever before.

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