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Saving Made Simple
Learn how you can save and invest quickly, cheaply and flexibly. Invest like you’re dead, so you can get on with living a fantastic life.
The most successful long-term savers don’t touch their money once it’s invested. And out of everyone, the people who truly excel at doing nothing are the dead. So next time you worry about what the stock market is doing, think “What would a dead person do?”.
If you’re bored by personal finance books and numbed by numbers, this is the place for you.
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Blog: Simple investing
The essential guide to low-cost funds and ETFs
This week, I explain how to invest with index funds and ETFs. There’s only space for 300-400 words, so this is probably the most concise guide I will ever produce. I had to leave a lot out, but what you’re getting here is exactly “the essentials”.
Blog: Saving - debt, income & expenses
Blog: Terrible savings plans (and how to avoid them)
What to do if your nest egg is locked up in a savings plan
Reader question – what to do if you find yourself trapped in a long-term savings plan.
Having invested into equity and bond funds over the last two years I can no longer put money regularly into my savings plan. I have some US$100,000 invested. What should I do?
Expert opinion: is it safe yet to get a savings plan in the UAE?
This is a great article from Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence featuring us and many other voices of reason in the UAE market. It discusses some of the problems with the selling of personal savings plans here and why there is reason for cautious optimism about the future.