Smart Investing™
Robin Bowerman, Principal and Head of Retail at Vanguard Investments, shares investment and personal finance insights gained from two decades in the finance industry as writer, commentator and editor.
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Priced for success 09 Sep 10
Walter Updegrave, a senior editor with Money Magazine in the US, writes a sometimes fascinating column, responding to readers' questions on investment and personal finance issues.
Overwhelming choice 06 Sep 10
Sometimes investors can be offered an amount of product choice that is, frankly, overwhelming.
Australia versus the world 03 Sep 10
September is the season when biases of the sporting kind are given full rein as the respective winter football codes gear up for the season-defining grand finals.
Breakdown shocker 01 Sep 10
When marriages and de facto relationships fail, the finances of the separated couples are almost always badly damaged.
More money, longer life 30 Aug 10
A recent life-expectancy study of retirees receiving superannuation pensions from large public-sector super funds suggests that higher retirement incomes can mean greater life expectancy.
Why value is an investor’s bottom line 27 Aug 10
Where do you draw the line between cheap and nasty and great value for money?
Never say never - again 25 Aug 10
Some readers may remember - at least from late night television - that Never Say Never Again was the name of a 1983 James Bond movie starring Sean Connery.
Hard at work 23 Aug 10
Do you think that you work too hard? It seems that many Australians would give a resounding answer to this question: "Yes".
Financial plans provide inertia antidote 20 Aug 10
Indecision is the perfect bedfellow of investor inertia.
ETFs: the next stage of their popularity 18 Aug 10
The recommendations of financial planners will help drive Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) to the next stage of their popularity, which has already been growing at an extraordinary pace in Australia over recent years.
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