Investing Money: 2017

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

[Smart Investing] Who can investors trust? | Summer reading for imminent retirees | Become a better investor through your holiday reading

Smart Investing™

with Robin Bowerman
Principal, Market Strategy and Communications

6 December 2017

In this edition

•	Who can investors trust?
•	Summer reading for imminent retirees
•	Become a better investor through your holiday reading

Who can investors trust?

While technology may well be giving us new ways to gauge and make decisions on who we trust, at the end of the day when it comes to financial advice, trust remains both a powerful and simple proposition.

Summer reading for imminent retirees

Are you among the hundreds of thousands of super members who will retire this summer or over the next six months?

Become a better investor through your holiday reading

Behavioural economist Daniel Kahneman continues as a powerful force on the best-seller lists as 2017 draws to a close.

Vanguard in the news

Vanguard says index investing can only grow

John Kehoe | 29 November 2017

Vanguard chief investment officer Greg Davis says passive investing will keep getting bigger, as he rebutted criticisms by active stock pickers that the huge rise in indexing was fuelling financial risks.

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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

[Smart Investing] What's in a number? | An investment 'starting point' | Rising risks to the status quo

Smart Investing™

with Robin Bowerman
Principal, Market Strategy and Communications

29 November 2017

In this edition

•	What's in a number?
•	An investment 'starting point'
•	Rising risks to the status quo

What's in a number?

This month the benchmark Australian sharemarket index S&P/ ASX 200 closed above the 6000 mark sparking considerable media commentary and reflection of what it means for the future.

An investment 'starting point'

A recent Vanguard research paper describes index investing - through conventional index funds or ETFs tracking chosen indices - as a 'valuable starting point for all investors'.

Rising risks to the status quo

The financial markets' low volatility underscores investors' conviction that the long-term global economic trends of modest growth and tepid inflation will also define shorter-term cycles. But risks lie in mistaking the trend for the cycle.