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>>to let you set a custom portfolio on autopilot

Can't you invest in a set of 5 passive ETFs and forget about it for 40 years? Or even build your own ETFs for that purpose: https://www.motif.com? Or are you talking about "if risk of market crash is too high, sell everything for a bit -- buy back in when this calms down" type stuff?

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I mean things as simple as rebalancing, to a bit more complicated like tax management, or trading rules. I want the mechanics of portfolio management, but I don't want somebody else's portfolio. You're still choosing from somebody else's portfolio with Motif.

If somebody wants to disrupt, quant hedge fund for retail investors would be the one but I suspect it's never going to happen because of the perverse incentives that exist to not do that. There used to be the Quantopian-Robinhood method but neither side wanted to go in the direction. I don't see these firms as truly disruptive.

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