choosing mutual funds

At work I’ve got a pretty good retirement package. The company matches twice my contribution, up to a maximum of 1.5% - I put in 1.5% and they put in 3%. The pension is run by Friends Provident and there is a small but reasonable selection of funds with relatively inexpensive fees (typical mutual fund [...]

the carnival is up

Doughroller (you should subscribe) hosted the carnival of personal finance this week with a stock market crash theme. Don’t forget loyal readers, that a stock market crash means very little if you are investing for the long term.
On with the show. The best submissions, according to me are:

I’m responsible for one of the worst interviews [...]

are you swayed by marketing?

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m interested in switching my relatively poorly performing Virgin stakeholder pension to a cheaper fund in a better wrapper from Hargreaves Lansdown (H-L). To this end, I thoroughly investigated the offerings at H-L, emailed them to check that I understood the fee structure and established that I need to have £5k [...]