Our friends at AltFi look at the latest annual report filings from robo-adviser, Nutmeg. Robo advisers and algorithm-led investment decision making generally are important to new sectors like peer-to-peer (P2P) lending. We need to make P2P better-understood and ventilate the idea that it can be considered a “mainstream” asset class. And we’re confident that the algorithms, balancing rewards against risk and security considerations (as all must – see below), can surely help
Nutmeg, the first major robo adviser in the UK, has seen its losses widen by more than a third to £12.4m in 2017, according to Companies House filings.
Nutmeg says it saw revenue growth of more than 75 per cent from £2.6m to £4.6m while the firm had more than £25m of net cash in the bank.
In 2016 Nutmeg lost £9.3m. It had £600m in assets under management at in the beginning of 2017, rising to £1bn by the end of the year. However, the firm seems to have landed just a net 3,000 more users in the year. Suggesting the £400m AUM boost came through large accounts and/or portfolio growth in in its existing accounts.
Martin Stead, chief executive officer, Nutmeg, says the firm’s “mission to democratise wealth management” was on a steady course.
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