About us

AFR Smart Investor magazine is an indispensable tool for active Australian investors seeking information and analysis aimed at wealth creation and financial security. Written by a team of well-known financial experts, and utilising the resources of the country's premier financial publishing group, it provides a vast range of investment ideas and opportunities unattainable anywhere else in the media.

The magazine has been created from the stable of magazines formerly housing the successful Personal Investor and Shares magazine and retains many of the columns and features already proven in the marketplace, while adding a host of new sections that enable investors to move forward with confidence into the 21st century.

There continues to be a strong focus on equity investment, both in little known small and mid-sized stocks striving to make their mark on corporate Australia and heavyweight blue-chip companies that form the backbone of the DIY or superannuation portfolios of most Australians. The magazine is based around performance and offers readers unbiased analysis of all asset classes – from shares, managed funds and property investments all the way to basic bank account products – that fit with people’s risk/reward aspirations. It covers everything from small speculative issues to giant global issues. It offers easy-to-understand guidance through complex superannuation and tax issues while keeping everyone up to speed with the latest investment products.

There are also pages devoted to teaching people how to be better investors and how to think strategically when allocating their savings. Its overriding aim is to help readers accumulate wealth at different stages of their lives. When it comes to Australian investment there is only one magazine – AFR Smart Investor brought to you by The Australian Financial Review.