Financial Planning firm Symphony is to launch a free, non-advised digital investment management service to compete with robo-advice competitors.

More people trust an IFA to make an investment decision on their behalf rather than a robo-adviser, according to new research.

Technology such as self driving cars and robo-advisers will gain the public’s trust increasingly as people become accustomed to them, a financial tech firm boss believes.

People are deeply sceptical about robo-advice and prefer human financial advisers, research has indicated.