Digitopolis and the VanEck Digital Assets Initiative (VEDA) present the Business of Blockchain (BoB) Speaker Seminar Series featuring Professor Alberto Rossi of Georgetown University.

TALK TITLE: The Present and Future of Robo-Advice

TALK ABSTRACT:

Drawing on a series of academic research papers, this talk traces the evolution of robo-advice from automated portfolio management to broader digital financial guidance. It examines how robo-advisors affect portfolio allocation, risk-adjusted performance, investor attention, and retention, as well as why design and human interaction continue to matter. The discussion then extends beyond investing to applications involving saving, spending, and debt management. The talk concludes by considering the next generation of robo-advice: AI-powered tools that integrate multiple household financial decisions into more holistic and personalized advice.

SPEAKER BIO:

Alberto Rossi is the Hachigian Family Professor of Finance at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. He is also the Director of the AI, Analytics, and Future of Work Initiative at Georgetown, a Visiting Fellow at Brookings, and a member of the Economic Advisory Committee (EAC) at FINRA. His research interests include FinTech, Household Finance, Machine Learning, and Asset Pricing. His recent work studies how robo-advisors can help individuals make better financial decisions and how to predict stock market returns using machine learning algorithms. He has worked extensively in analyzing big data and has collaborated with major brokerage houses, FinTech firms, and asset managers around the world.

Professor Rossi’s work has been published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, and Management Science.

Before joining Georgetown McDonough, he was an Associate Professor with tenure at the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He also worked as an economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego.

Learn more:

Digitopolis / USC Marshall Initiative on Digital Competition:
https://www.marshall.usc.edu/institutes-and-centers/initiative-on-digital-competition

USC Marshall VanEck Digital Assets Initiative:
https://www.marshall.usc.edu/institutes-and-centers/vaneck-digital-assets-initiative

Presented by the Office of the Senior Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, USC Marshall School of Business, BRI 101.