He says there should be better financial education available to people, but that with the growth in digital and self-investment and more flexibility in pensions and Isas, individuals must start taking control.
In an industry more associated with ego, vapidity and self-investment, the 25-year-old former Neighbours actor, who broke out at the age of 20 with the Tomorrow, When the War Began movie, increasingly views her career as a distant sideline to her commitment to activism and raising awareness.
Is there a dark side to this world of greater personal freedom and greater self-investment?
This improvement seems to be attributable to a mix of factors involving immigrants' self-investment, the removal of institutional barriers and employer behaviour.
Allowing undergraduate students to feel the excitement and self-investment that is related to the discovery of new knowledge is now thought to be a better way to educate students in science (National Research Council, 2000, 2003; Lord et al., 2007; Prince and Felder, 2007; Shaffer et al., 2010).
Your business should come first in the short term, but self-investment should focus on the long term.
Building materials group CRH, support services firm DCC and healthcare business Mediclinic are all like a self-effacing investment banker.
And self-styled investment wizards can peruse the purple "Lots of Choice" tome and pick from 27 funds, including such exotics as real-estate investment trusts.
Philip is surprised to hear the once vivacious Lucy speak bitterly of her late ex-husband Thomas Snow, a self-made investment banker whom Philip had admired.
