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August 2008  (1)

  • 03: End of month review - July 2008

July 2008  (4)

  • 20: The credit crunch in pictures?
  • 18: Change to Portfolio Return series
  • 12: Geometric mean with negative numbers
  • 06: End of month review - June 2008

June 2008  (3)

  • 28: Portfolio Returns - The Basics
  • 16: How do you measure your portfolio’s return?
  • 01: End of month review - May 2008

May 2008  (3)

  • 14: Recycle your old phone & boost your income
  • 08: Still in favour of Zopa
  • 06: End of month review - April 2008

April 2008  (7)

  • 30: Get paid for running late
  • 23: Inflation is your biggest enemy
  • 19: Warren Buffet and Institutional Investors
  • 13: End of month review - March 2008
  • 07: New Tax Year - New Tax Laws
  • 04: Updates to the Site
  • 01: Happy Birthday to Simple Pound

March 2008  (5)

  • 31: Carnival of Personal Finance #146
  • 26: ISA countdown
  • 12: More than a question of deposit
  • 04: My blogroll
  • 02: End of month review - February 2008

February 2008  (4)

  • 26: Bar Stool Economics
  • 23: Banks aren’t supposed to be your friend
  • 16: Premium Bonds
  • 03: End of month review - January 2008

January 2008  (2)

  • 24: Three cheers
  • 20: Mortgage Alternatives

December 2007  (2)

  • 31: End of the month review - December 2007
  • 04: End of month review - November 2007

November 2007  (7)

  • 26: Good gifts over bad presents
  • 21: Why is the credit crunch such a big deal?
  • 18: ISA fully funded
  • 13: How I lost over £15,000 in a day
  • 09: Buying shares in countries
  • 06: Hidden credit card charges on the up
  • 04: End of month review - October 2007

October 2007  (5)

  • 26: Thoughts on debt
  • 23: Amazone Euro Fund
  • 14: Common sense lost since 1769
  • 04: Travel goals
  • 02: End of month review - September 2007

September 2007  (2)

  • 29: Are you being gazumped?
  • 02: Are house prices finally on their way down?

August 2007  (2)

  • 31: End of month review - August 2007
  • 07: End of month review - July 2007

July 2007  (7)

  • 25: Carnival of Personal Finance #110
  • 21: House prices reach new high
  • 18: How to start budgeting
  • 16: Can you know what you’re worth?
  • 14: JP Morgan’s Guaranteed Formula for Success
  • 11: Are markets efficient?
  • 07: Internet troubles

June 2007  (19)

  • 29: End of month review - June 2007
  • 27: Women and Finance
  • 26: Carnival of Personal Finance #106
  • 24: How do you say no to presents?
  • 22: The 10 worst financial products
  • 21: How to select funds - Part 3
  • 19: Blogging mistakes rectified? Check.
  • 18: Best of this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance
  • 17: How to select funds - Part 2
  • 16: How to select funds - Part 1
  • 14: You are probably richer than half the world’s population
  • 13: State of Affairs Calculator
  • 12: How passively managed are index funds?
  • 09: R. A. Ferri - All About Asset Allocation (III)
  • 08: Progess with blogging mistakes
  • 06: What to do with all the money?
  • 05: My top 5 blogging mistakes - and how I plan to rectify them
  • 04: The beginning of the Simple Pound Network?
  • 01: R. A. Ferri - All About Asset Allocation (II)

May 2007  (21)

  • 31: End of month review - May 2007
  • 29: Prosper.com - the U.S. version of Zopa
  • 27: R. A. Ferri - All About Asset Allocation (I)
  • 26: Switching current accounts?
  • 23: NatWest hearing still without results
  • 21: A look at my life insurance
  • 19: Why asset allocation is important
  • 18: My favourite model portfolio
  • 16: Bank: 1 - Consumer: 0
  • 15: Buzzword No 2: Asset Allocation
  • 14: Read it - Swap it
  • 13: Budgeting advice from 1948
  • 11: A pint for 58p
  • 10: Interest rates and inflation
  • 09: Smart goals
  • 08: Investment choices - Summary
  • 06: Investmest choices - Open ended investment company OEIC
  • 05: Investment choices - Investment trust
  • 03: Investment choices - Unit trusts
  • 02: Update on bank charges case
  • 01: Investment choices - Bond Funds

April 2007  (36)

  • 30: End of month review - April 2007
  • 29: 201 ways of saving money
  • 28: The saver’s greatest enemy
  • 27: Bank pays for wasting time
  • 26: Do you earn enough interest to cancel out inflation?
  • 25: First bank retreat
  • 24: Investment choices - Bonds (II)
  • 23: Investment choices - Bonds (I)
  • 22: Investment a la Barbados
  • 21: Investment choices - Mutual Funds
  • 20: Zopa markets or how to cut out the middle-man
  • 19: What are we tracking? Top 5 indices to invest in
  • 18: What are we tracking? An overview of Asian indices
  • 17: Ugly Duckling Investing
  • 16: NatWest unlucky - again
  • 16: What are we tracking? More European indices
  • 15: What scares beginners?
  • 14: Bank charges case adjourned
  • 14: First Milestone
  • 13: What the taxman claims
  • 12: Insights
  • 11: NatWest in court over bank charges
  • 11: What are we tracking? An overview of European indices
  • 10: What are we tracking? An overview of US indices
  • 09: Graduated? Now what do you do about your Finances?
  • 09: What are we tracking? An overview of UK indices
  • 07: Investment choices - Index funds
  • 06: The 60% solution
  • 05: Investment choices - Exchange Traded Funds
  • 05: How to set yourself financial goals
  • 04: The progress page
  • 04: Investment choices - Shares
  • 03: Your goal as an investor
  • 02: First retirement goal
  • 02: It is good to have goals
  • 01: Why I am doing this


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