Mr Lesh told SMSF Adviser that while some of the larger firms have taken up greater automation within their businesses, a lot of the smaller firms haven’t.
“The first step to getting efficiencies in their SMSF work is to automate their processes; to get their bank data, their contract notes to buy and sell data, their registry data, their wrap data, their actuarial data, and their property data and automate all those processes.
“It seems at the moment to be taking a very long time to get to the point.”
Mr Lesh said he has found from his clients that many businesses are still not ready to move towards automation.
“They’re all just sort of assessing how it’s all going, rather than actually doing anything,” he said.
Mr Lesh said the businesses failing to automate are going to be missing out on the opportunities that will be there in the future.
“There are lots of threats to the existing models for a lot of people and I think the opportunity is to get the efficiencies into their SMSFs so they can focus on other areas,” he said.
“There’s no doubt you will reduce your costs significantly by automating.”
