Pawel Brzeminski's guest appearances

Pawel Brzeminski

Fintech Impact

David Katz

Ian Crosby

Michael Kitces

Mauricio Di Bartolomeo

Daniel Crosby

Alan Moore

Alex Sklar

Samantha Ettus

Sean Brown

Hayden James

Mark Evans

Yaron Ben-Zvi

Steve Sanduski

Ethan Buchman

Dan Doney

OwlTail

Tea Nicola

Summary:In this 103rd episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host welcomes Tea Nicola, Co-founder and CEO of Wealthbar, and Pawel Brzeminski, Founder and CEO of Snap Projections, to talk about what led to their companies’ partnership, fintech’s rise and the financial planning industry’s move towards technology, and more. Episode Highlights: ● 00:46: – Wealthbar is one of Canada’s first robo-advisors. ● 01:18: – Snap Projections is a financial planning platform for advisors. ● 02:38: – Tea was interested in Snap Projections after using it herself for years as a solution to having to do calculations in Excel and then manually transfer data over into reports for clients. ● 04:33: – Pawel was interested in the relationship because he wanted a partner to help grow and improve the platform. ● 06:44: – Snap Projections has helped Wealthbar grow because it has been helpful to own software that allows advisors to work more efficiently and effectively service more clients. ● 08:15: – Pawel believes Snap Projections has added a lot of value for advisors over the years, including estate planning. In the future he’d like to develop APIs. ● 11:11: – Tea’s vision is for a platform that automates routine tasks but has a human safety net to help you understand your finances. ● 13:09: – Tea envisions her advisors as salaried employees on the same level as her developers as opposed to the current model of advisors as sole proprietors of their business. ● 17:33: – Pawel intends to reduce friction and heavy lifting for advisors by providing recommendations to advisors while acknowledging that no one algorithm can account for all scenarios. ● 21:19: – Snap Projections has between 600-700 feature requests on their list right now. ● 21:40: – Pawel wants to spend more time exploring issues around stress testing. ● 22:03: – Algorithms are better at doing the heavy lifting but a human still needs to be involved to make sure the recommendations apply to a client’s reality. ● 24:21: – If Tea could change one thing about the industry it would be that the average Canadian’s financial literacy level would go up tenfold. ● 25:45: – If Pawel could change one thing it would be to change the backend of financial planning software to focus less on the individual and more on the household. ● 28:26: – The biggest challenge Tea has faced in scaling Wealthbar to where it is today would, again, be the issue of financial literacy. ● 29:33: – Pawel’s biggest challenge in scaling Snap Projections was lack of resources. ● 32:40: – What most excites Tea is the way the industry is changing and moving towards more technology, including AI. ● 35:33: – Pawel is most excited by helping people and seeing the impact he’s making. 3 Key Points 1. The ideal robo-advisor platform would automate routine tasks while allowing clients to speak to a human for deeper understanding and specific issues. 2. Increasing the level of financial literacy among the population is crucial for the growth of fintech. 3. Canadian tax code poses a challenge for advisors because of its focus on the individual rather than the household. Tweetable Quotes: ● “I’ve always had this vision in my mind of a busy mom walking into her house with a bunch of groceries and getting a push notification from Wealthbar... and she can react to it with one button and at the same time have access to an advisor if things aren’t clear enough.” –Tea Nicola ● “It’s all about making planning pleasant and easy to use. We don’t have to use all the complex tools with lots of inputs. It’s all about making sure that information that we’re using to make decisions is right in front of us.” –Pawel Brzeminski ● “FInancial planning and investment management is a slow and boring process. If it’s exciting, you’re doing it wrong.” –Tea Nicola Resources Mentioned: ● Facebook – Jason Pereira’s Facebook ● LinkedIn – Jason Pereira’s LinkedIn ● FintechImpact.co – Website for Fintech Impact ● Wealthbar Website – https://www.wealthbar.com/ ● Snap Projections Website – https://snapprojections.com/ ● Tea Nicola Twitter: https://twitter.com/teanicola?lang=en ● Pawel Brzeminski Twitter: https://twitter.com/pawelwb?lang=en Full Transcript Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Summary:In this 103rd episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host welcomes Tea Nicola, Co-founder and CEO of Wealthbar, and Pawel Brzeminski, Founder and CEO of Snap Projections, to talk about what led to their companies’ partnership, fintech’s rise and the financial planning industry’s move towards technology, and more. Episode Highlights: ● 00:46: – Wealthbar is one of Canada’s first robo-advisors. ● 01:18: – Snap Projections is a financial planning platform for advisors. ● 02:38: – Tea was interested in Snap Projections after using it herself for years as a solution to having to do calculations in Excel and then manually transfer data over into reports for clients. ● 04:33: – Pawel was interested in the relationship because he wanted a partner to help grow and improve the platform. ● 06:44: – Snap Projections has helped Wealthbar grow because it has been helpful to own software that allows advisors to work more efficiently and effectively service more clients. ● 08:15: – Pawel believes Snap Projections has added a lot of value for advisors over the years, including estate planning. In the future he’d like to develop APIs. ● 11:11: – Tea’s vision is for a platform that automates routine tasks but has a human safety net to help you understand your finances. ● 13:09: – Tea envisions her advisors as salaried employees on the same level as her developers as opposed to the current model of advisors as sole proprietors of their business. ● 17:33: – Pawel intends to reduce friction and heavy lifting for advisors by providing recommendations to advisors while acknowledging that no one algorithm can account for all scenarios. ● 21:19: – Snap Projections has between 600-700 feature requests on their list right now. ● 21:40: – Pawel wants to spend more time exploring issues around stress testing. ● 22:03: – Algorithms are better at doing the heavy lifting but a human still needs to be involved to make sure the recommendations apply to a client’s reality. ● 24:21: – If Tea could change one thing about the industry it would be that the average Canadian’s financial literacy level would go up tenfold. ● 25:45: – If Pawel could change one thing it would be to change the backend of financial planning software to focus less on the individual and more on the household. ● 28:26: – The biggest challenge Tea has faced in scaling Wealthbar to where it is today would, again, be the issue of financial literacy. ● 29:33: – Pawel’s biggest challenge in scaling Snap Projections was lack of resources. ● 32:40: – What most excites Tea is the way the industry is changing and moving towards more technology, including AI. ● 35:33: – Pawel is most excited by helping people and seeing the impact he’s making. 3 Key Points 1. The ideal robo-advisor platform would automate routine tasks while allowing clients to speak to a human for deeper understanding and specific issues. 2. Increasing the level of financial literacy among the population is crucial for the growth of fintech. 3. Canadian tax code poses a challenge for advisors because of its focus on the individual rather than the household. Tweetable Quotes: ● “I’ve always had this vision in my mind of a busy mom walking into her house with a bunch of groceries and getting a push notification from Wealthbar... and she can react to it with one button and at the same time have access to an advisor if things aren’t clear enough.” –Tea Nicola ● “It’s all about making planning pleasant and easy to use. We don’t have to use all the complex tools with lots of inputs. It’s all about making sure that information that we’re using to make decisions is right in front of us.” –Pawel Brzeminski ● “FInancial planning and investment management is a slow and boring process. If it’s exciting, you’re doing it wrong.” –Tea Nicola Resources Mentioned: ● Facebook – Jason Pereira’s Facebook ● LinkedIn – Jason Pereira’s LinkedIn ● <a href="http://FintechImpact.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FintechImpact.co</a> – Website for Fintech Impact ● Wealthbar Website – <a href="https://www.wealthbar.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.wealthbar.com/</a> ● Snap Projections Website – <a href="https://snapprojections.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://snapprojections.com/</a> ● Tea Nicola Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/teanicola?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/teanicola?lang=en</a> ● Pawel Brzeminski Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/pawelwb?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/pawelwb?lang=en</a> <a href="https://jasonpereira.ca/the-fintech-impact-podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Transcript</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Wealthbar & Snap Projections with Tea Nicola (CEO) & Pawel Brzeminski | E103

Summary:During the 3rd episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira interviews Pawel Brzeminski, the founder and CEO of Snap Projections, a new and exciting Canadian software solution to assist financial planners. They discuss the scope of Snap Projections, as well as tools and challenges facing the Canadian market.●     01:31 – Snap Projections is a financial planning software for Canadian financial advisors, investment managers, and financial planners.●     02:12 – Pawel came to Canada over 15 years ago and has a technical background in software engineering,●     03:45 – In late 2014, he started building the product, and launched in May 2015.●     06:34 – There are a lot of complex moving pieces with preparing financial plans for clients that Snap Projections assists with in order to make the progress simpler.●     09:30 – The software was made to be effective, easy to use, easy to communicate to the client, robust, accurate, transparent, customizable, and interactive.●     13:38 – After entering data, users are able to copy a scenario and test it out.●     17:45 – Funding is a challenge company has faced, being that they are independent without any equity partners in it. They also have over 500 feature requests on their list.●     23:59 – Wealth transfer involving “baby boomers” is causing people to ask themselves if they will have enough money to live off of.●     24:40 – Snap Projections has a sustainability feature to calculate how much they can spend to live a long-term sustainable lifestyle.●     28:14 – They try to focus on monitoring what financial advisors need, not what their competitors are doing, because they don’t want to make the same mistakes that they may make.●     29:33 – Snap Projections’ podcast is called “Growing Your Financial Advisor Practice” and Jason Pereira is on episode 6.3 Key Points:1. The software was made to be effective, easy to use, easy to communicate to the client, robust, accurate, transparent, customizable, and interactive.2. Wealth transfer involving “baby boomers” is causing people to ask themselves is if they will have enough to live off of.3. They try to focus on monitoring what financial advisors need, not what their competitors are doing, because they don’t want to make the same mistakes that they may make.Tweetable Quotes:-   “Europeans and people in Canada here, and the U.S. as well, they think about money differently…for example, there is not a lot of credit card use in European.” – Pawel Brzeminski.-   “Education actually, the advisor can help increase the financial literacy of the client…the refer ability goes up.” – Pawel Brzeminski.-   “We both have the “Baby Boomer” population in Canada and the U.S. And that wealth transfer that we’ve been hearing about in this industry forever is finally starting to happen.” – Jason Pereira.Resources Mentioned:● Facebook – Jason Pereira’s Facebook● LinkedIn – Jason Pereira’s LinkedIn           ● Snap Projections – Website for Snap Projections           ● Pawel Brzeminski – LinkedIn for Pawel Brzeminski           ● Podcast for Snap Projections – Snap Projections podcast featuring Jason Pereira Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Summary:During the 3rd episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira interviews Pawel Brzeminski, the founder and CEO of Snap Projections, a new and exciting Canadian software solution to assist financial planners. They discuss the scope of Snap Projections, as well as tools and challenges facing the Canadian market.●     01:31 – Snap Projections is a financial planning software for Canadian financial advisors, investment managers, and financial planners.●     02:12 – Pawel came to Canada over 15 years ago and has a technical background in software engineering,●     03:45 – In late 2014, he started building the product, and launched in May 2015.●     06:34 – There are a lot of complex moving pieces with preparing financial plans for clients that Snap Projections assists with in order to make the progress simpler.●     09:30 – The software was made to be effective, easy to use, easy to communicate to the client, robust, accurate, transparent, customizable, and interactive.●     13:38 – After entering data, users are able to copy a scenario and test it out.●     17:45 – Funding is a challenge company has faced, being that they are independent without any equity partners in it. They also have over 500 feature requests on their list.●     23:59 – Wealth transfer involving “baby boomers” is causing people to ask themselves if they will have enough money to live off of.●     24:40 – Snap Projections has a sustainability feature to calculate how much they can spend to live a long-term sustainable lifestyle.●     28:14 – They try to focus on monitoring what financial advisors need, not what their competitors are doing, because they don’t want to make the same mistakes that they may make.●     29:33 – Snap Projections’ podcast is called “Growing Your Financial Advisor Practice” and Jason Pereira is on episode 6.3 Key Points:1. The software was made to be effective, easy to use, easy to communicate to the client, robust, accurate, transparent, customizable, and interactive.2. Wealth transfer involving “baby boomers” is causing people to ask themselves is if they will have enough to live off of.3. They try to focus on monitoring what financial advisors need, not what their competitors are doing, because they don’t want to make the same mistakes that they may make.Tweetable Quotes:-   “Europeans and people in Canada here, and the U.S. as well, they think about money differently…for example, there is not a lot of credit card use in European.” – Pawel Brzeminski.-   “Education actually, the advisor can help increase the financial literacy of the client…the refer ability goes up.” – Pawel Brzeminski.-   “We both have the “Baby Boomer” population in Canada and the U.S. And that wealth transfer that we’ve been hearing about in this industry forever is finally starting to happen.” – Jason Pereira.Resources Mentioned:● <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jason.pereira" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> – Jason Pereira’s Facebook● <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pereirajm?trk=org-employees_mini-profile_title" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> – Jason Pereira’s LinkedIn           ● <a href="http://snapprojections.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Snap Projections</a> – Website for Snap Projections           ● <a href="https://ca.linkedin.com/in/pawel-brzeminski-555523" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pawel Brzeminski</a> – LinkedIn for Pawel Brzeminski           ● <a href="http://snapprojections.com/podcast/006-compete-win-canadian-hnw-segment/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Podcast for Snap Projections</a> – Snap Projections podcast featuring Jason Pereira Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Snap Projections with Pawel Brzeminski (CEO) | EP12 