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Robert Paulsen

Personal Finance Writer

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Robert Paulsen has spent more than a decade writing about the financial choices people make in everyday life. His work covers income, spending, saving, debt and long-term goals, with close attention to the circumstances that can make the same advice sensible for one household and unsuitable for another.

Personal finance is often reduced to slogans: spend less, save more, avoid debt, follow a fixed rule. Robert looks beyond those formulas. He examines the trade-offs behind a decision, the priorities it serves and the costs or constraints that may not be obvious at first glance.

At MarketReview, his articles are intended to help readers organise choices around their own needs rather than an idealised financial plan. He does not treat good personal finance writing as a list of instructions; he treats it as a way to make the reasoning behind competing options clearer.

Areas of coverage

  • Personal finance
  • Income and spending
  • Saving
  • Debt
  • Retirement planning
  • Insurance
  • Mortgages

Published work

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Precious Metals

Precious metals such as gold, silver and platinum occupy a distinct place in investing because they can be owned physically, traded as commodities, or accessed through financial products.…

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Insurance

Insurance can protect households and businesses from losses that would be difficult to absorb with cash alone. This page explains how policies transfer risk, how premiums, deductibles, limits…

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Retirement

Retirement planning connects saving, investing, future income, taxes, health care and spending in one long-term financial plan. It is less about reaching a single target balance than building…

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