{"topic":"fee-compression","title":"fee compression","url":"https://theexchange.tech/archive/fee-compression","description":"Dispatches on fee compression for AI agents in financial services.","questions":[],"count":2,"startHere":[],"articles":[{"title":"Deloitte's $10–35T Is Headroom, Not Revenue — And Headroom Gets Competed Away","url":"https://theexchange.tech/articles/deloittes-10-35t-is-headroom-not-revenue-and-headroom-gets-competed-away","json":"https://theexchange.tech/articles/deloittes-10-35t-is-headroom-not-revenue-and-headroom-gets-competed-away.json","excerpt":"Deloitte projects agentic AI frees a quarter to half of an adviser's day and opens $10–35T of AUM capacity. Read the noun: capacity. The forecast only becomes revenue if freed hours convert into new relationships instead of into lower fees — and an industry-wide cost drop is the textbook setup for lower fees.","publishDate":"2026-07-29","author":"Marisol Vega","topics":["agentic-ai","wealth-management","productivity","fee-compression","adviser-economics"]},{"title":"The 1% fee was the business model. An AI advisor just set it to zero.","url":"https://theexchange.tech/articles/the-1-fee-was-the-business-model-an-ai-advisor-just-set-it-to-zero","json":"https://theexchange.tech/articles/the-1-fee-was-the-business-model-an-ai-advisor-just-set-it-to-zero.json","excerpt":"Autonomous Technologies Group emerged from stealth with $15M and a wealth manager priced at 0% advisory fees. Strip out the fee and you see what actually held incumbent advice together — and where an agent should be racing to compete.","publishDate":"2026-07-04","author":"Marisol Vega","topics":["creative-destruction","robo-advisors","fee-compression","autonomous-agents","wealth-management"]}]}