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Robin Bowerman

Robin Bowerman

Robin Bowerman is Head of Market Strategy and Communication, Vanguard Australia. As a renowned market commentator and editor Robin has spent more than two decades writing about all things investment.

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How ETFs Can Help Create A Great Investment Portfolio

September 5, 2018September 20, 2018 - by Robin Bowerman

Achieving wealth creation goals by building a cost and tax efficient portfolio is never easy, but index ETFs can be an invaluable tool to do it.

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Releasing the power of diversification through ETFs

September 4, 2018September 6, 2018 - by Robin Bowerman

An increasing recognition by investors of the power of portfolio diversification would rank among the top reasons for the sustained and fast-growing popularity of exchange traded funds (ETFs).

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5 ways ETFs can help you achieve better tax outcomes

September 3, 2018September 6, 2018 - by Robin Bowerman

Index ETFs can be a very tax efficient way to build wealth.

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Top three tips for buying ETFs

September 1, 2018September 6, 2018 - by Robin Bowerman

ETFs are growing in popularity by the day, with Australians now entrusting nearly $40 billion of their savings in these products.

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Under-Your-Control Investing

February 28, 2018September 3, 2018 - by Robin Bowerman

The long-term outlook for a more challenging investment market with low-interest, subdued equity returns and higher volatility has led to some investors wondering whether a radically new investment strategy is warranted.

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Create A Diversified Portfolio From Scratch

February 28, 2018 - by Robin Bowerman

One of the most fundamental issues for investors is how to create a properly diversified portfolio – whether from scratch or by reworking an existing portfolio.

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A Retiree’s Volatility ‘Bucket’

February 28, 2018 - by Robin Bowerman

Some retirees and other investors fast-approaching retirement set aside one to two years of living expenses if possible in a cash "bucket". This is to act as a volatility buffer to try to avoid having to sell growth assets at depressed prices to provide enough retirement income during a market downturn.

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ETFs Pass Ease-Of-Investing Tests

February 28, 2018September 5, 2018 - by Robin Bowerman

Among the prime reasons for the popularity of exchange traded funds (ETFs) is that the products pass a series of ease-of-investing tests. This is in addition to their typically low costs.

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Shifting The Dial On Super

February 13, 2018September 6, 2018 - by Robin Bowerman

It is about now when those well-intentioned New Year resolutions start to come under pressure.

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Buffett’s Bet: The Finale

February 13, 2018September 6, 2018 - by Robin Bowerman

Commentary by Andy Clarke, senior investment strategist in Vanguard Investment Strategy Group.

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What’s Ahead For SMSFs?

February 13, 2018September 6, 2018 - by Robin Bowerman

It would be difficult to underestimate the impact that self-managed super has on competition between super funds – with both SMSF and non-SMSF members being the winners.

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Why Investor Returns Lag Fund Returns

February 1, 2018 - by Robin Bowerman

Here’s an investment puzzle. Why do investors often underperform the managed investment funds holding their money?

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Power Of Retiree Super Dollars

February 1, 2018 - by Robin Bowerman

With the waves of baby boomers now nearing or entering retirement, it is hardly surprising that the ranks of retired super members is rapidly growing. Yet the extent of that growth may surprise you.

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Streamlining Portfolio Creation With ETFs

February 1, 2018 - by Robin Bowerman

Are you among the increasing number of investors wanting to create a widely-diversified portfolio based largely on low-cost, index-tracking exchange traded funds (ETFs)?

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Beyond Share Prices

January 15, 2018 - by Robin Bowerman

Investors shouldn’t overlook that there are two components to sharemarket returns – dividend yield and capital gains (or losses).

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Who Can Investors Trust?

December 11, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

Trust can be tested in many ways.

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Invest Better Through Your Holiday Reading

December 11, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

Behavioural economist Daniel Kahneman – who teaches us to control our damaging behavioural traits to become better, more-disciplined investors – continues as a powerful force on the best-seller lists as 2017 draws to a close.

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What’s In A Number?

December 11, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

Numbers can at times take on a significance way beyond the actual data point they represent.

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Rising Risks To The Status Quo

December 11, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

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.

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Calculating Behaviour

November 23, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

It seems hard to believe that the first iPhone was released just over a decade ago.

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Wanted: Estate-Planning Advice For SMSFs

November 23, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

An estimated 59,000 self-managed super funds (SMSFs) have unmet needs for advice on estate planning.

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The Difference Between Desired & Required Returns

November 23, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

We probably all remember during those long difficult car trips as children repeatedly saying such irritating things to our parents as: "When do we get there?". Perhaps adding to reinforce the point, "I knew we would never get there".

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A Question Of Engagement

November 23, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

Starting a new job can be equal parts high stress and high excitement.

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The Three Benefits Behind Indexing’s Success

November 1, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

Success attracts supporters, detractors and imitators – just ask any premiership-winning sports team.

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A Simple Nudge Towards Better Investing

November 1, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

Behavioural economist Professor Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel Prize for economics this month and intends to spend his million-dollar-plus prize money "as irrationally as possible".

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Technology: An Adversary In The Fight For 2% Inflation

November 1, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

It’s been a generation since inflation last ravaged Australia, with costs for ordinary consumer goods rising on a seemingly daily basis. Indeed, in the wake of the global financial crisis, inflation in many countries has been lower than policymakers would like.

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The ‘Democracy’ Of The ETF Toolbox

November 1, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

Independent exchange-traded fund (ETF) researcher Deborah Fuhr describes ETFs as the most democratic investment product to her knowledge.

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The Great Australian (Retiree) Dream

September 11, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

The very high level of debt-free home ownership among current Australian retirees helps counterbalance their low average super savings, undoubtedly contributing to any sense of financial security.

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Balancing (& Rebalancing) For Success

September 11, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

How has your investment portfolio performed over the past 10 years since the onset of the global financial crisis (GFC)?

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Concentrate – But Not In Your Portfolio

September 11, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

A thought-provoking exercise for self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees is to compare their fund’s asset allocation to those of the balanced portfolios of Australia’s biggest super funds.

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Are Young Investors Wasting Their Youth?

September 11, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

It was George Bernard Shaw who coined the phrase ‘youth is wasted on the young’. In Australia today, it seems the young may be wasting their investing youth.

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ETFs’ Most-Enthusiastic Personal Investors

August 28, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

Self-managed funds rank among the longest and biggest supporters of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).

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Our ‘Hardest’ SMSF Tasks

August 28, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

What are the hardest aspects of running your self-managed super fund (SMSF)? Are they the seemingly ever-changing rules, the paperwork and administration or the challenge of choosing where to invest?

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ETFs: A Decade Of Fast-Growing Popularity

August 28, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

The popularity of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) has rapidly grown over the past 10 years in Australia and overseas – a decade that begun ominously enough with the beginning of the global financial crisis (GFC).

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The Digital Investor & The ‘Ostrich Effect’

August 28, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

The internet has certainly given investors much more immediate access to information about their portfolios, investment research and investment markets. It has also enabled us to conduct immediate online transactions.

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3 Ways That ETFs Can Help To Minimise Tax

August 11, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

Low-cost exchange traded funds allow investors to maintain a laser-like focus on returns.

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Making An Active Decision

August 11, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

A recent Vanguard research paper opens with a challenging question that investors are increasingly asking themselves: How should I allocate my investment capital across index and active investments?

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Is Your SMSF Retirement-Ready?

August 11, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

A landmark stage in the life of a self-managed super fund is when at least one of its members moves from the accumulation phase to retirement phase.

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Jekyll & Hyde Characteristics Of Compounding

August 11, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

Understandably, investors tend to focus on the positive sides of compounding.

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Don’t Lose Sleep Over The Uncontrollable

July 21, 2017 - by Robin Bowerman

Tumultuous, volatile and uncertain. These are a few words (albeit extreme ones) an investor might choose to describe the first half of 2017.

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