Moira O'Neill, Freelance Investment and Money Journalist, the powers of compounding returns, Investing Matters Podcast - Episode 39

Investing Matters

Welcome to this brand-new investing podcast from the London South East. My name is Peter Higgins, you can find me on Twitter @conkers3 and I will be your host for this series of Investing Matters podcasts.

What can you expect from the Investing Matters podcasts? A great question. You will find long form interviews with noteworthy veterans and experts from the investment and fund management industry. During these interviews each interviewee will share and impart their knowledge, learning and insights on what aspects of Investing truly matters to them and what in their view should matter to investors. We hope this knowledge exchange benefits all and enables all those accessing and listening to these podcasts to achieve even greater investing success.

With that in mind, welcome to episode thirty-nine with the author, award-winning investment journalist Moira O'Neill. Moira was previously Head of content at Interactive Investor, Editor at Moneywise, Personal Finance Editor at the Financial Times’ Investors Chronicle magazine and Deputy Editor at Money Observer. Moira is an independent freelance investment and money writer, editor and presenter, a columnist for the Financial Times, FT Money, contribute to the FT Money Show podcast and a regular contributor to TV and radio programmes. Moira has been educating savers and investors for around 25 years now. She was the winner of the Wincott Journalism Award in 2012. Moira has also written two personal finance books, Finance at 40 and Saving and Investing for Your Children. She read Classics at Cambridge University.

In this Investing Matters interview, Moira provides the listener with a wonderful, guided tour of how all investors can navigate the markets safely, in tax efficient way, the powers of compounding return, pound cost averaging, dividends, Funds, Investment Trusts, dividend heroes, diversification, funds, how to combat some of the psychological aspects of investing, her own personal investing strategies and discusses what truly matters to her with regards to investing and much more.

We hope you enjoy this podcast, and we look forward to hearing your feedback.

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