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Harrish Atm

12 May 2020

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In roboadvisor, can we choose the stocks we want to buy? Any suggestions?

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Kristal.AI

12 May 2020

Content & Community at Kristal.AI

Hi Harrish,

Most Roboadvisor advocate diversified and index based investing through low cost ETFs. This is based on the fact that time in the market beats market timing. Stock picking is typically done by fund managers and requires significant commitment of time and resources for a sustained period of time.

For investors, the most important thing to know is your risk appetite, your investment horizon and your personal situation. With that in mind, the next step is to make a plan and stick to the plan. A robo advisor can certainly help with that, as it's taking the emotion out of investing and does the heavy lifting (observing the market, rebalancing). Thus making it also time effective.

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Elijah Lee

06 May 2020

Senior Financial Services Manager at Phillip Securities (Jurong East)

Hi Harrish,

Unfortunately you can't do that, as the underlying holdings are ETFs, which themselves have underlying stocks/bonds. By going with robo, you cede control in return for automation.

What you can do is to understand what the ETFs themselves invest in, and then skew your allocation accordingly so that you are more heavily invested in the sectors or geographical regions you wish to look at. That's the best you can do to tilt it towards your preferences unfortunately.

If you desire even more precise control, then you will have to take up the investment decisions on your own and buy what you want to buy.

Robo-advisors mostly investly in ETFs, so no you cant choose the individual stocks.

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