Customer Rating: 
Summary: More Ads than useful content
Comment: Nice cover pictures and headlines, but way too many ads. There's a reason its only twelve bucks, this is an ad-sponsored mag.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Pick this one
Comment: Most magazimes half of their pages is advertizmet, this one have something to say and did make me some money when i used their top 10 stock picks for next year, that was January 99, the semiconductor boom, all 10 out of 10.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Ideas on investing at a nice price.
Comment: Put away some cash in mutual funds for retirement.
Ideas on current investment thinking (even if it's
often good to be contrarian and do the opposite
of what they recommend).
Customer Rating:
Summary: Better than I had imagined!
Comment: I purchased a value-package of this magazine and Kiplinger's, and I've been thrilled with both. About 20% of the articles and info are over my head, but the balance is understandable, helpful, and easily applied to my average money management skills. I've since ordered a SmartMoney subscription for three friends and relatives!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good magazine, very poor customer service
Comment: I have subscriptions to Forbes, Smart Money, Money and Fortune. Out of all 4, i like Forbes and Fortune the most, because they seem to give details also on the backgrounds of the companies they are presenting as good buys. Even if Smart Money is not as good as these magazines, it is still well worth the money and provides a cheaper alternative to the beginner investor.My main problem with Smart Money was not their writing, but their way of doing business. I made a one year subscription through Amazon and i was supposed to get the March issue as the first issue (in February). Well, i received this issue, but with it i was also sent the January and February issues (published in December of last year and January of this year). The complaints i made to their customer service department - for this cheap method they used to shorten my one year subscription by 2 months - were left with no answer. I know many magazines take advantage of their readers by sending them an older issue with the new one, but Smart Money takes the crown, sending me issues published last year!
Overall, if you can go past this, this magazine can be worth getting, especially for beginner investors. Otherwise, get Forbes or Fortune.
An update: I also e-mailed Amazon about this problem and - to their merit - they solved it immediately. While Smart Money still hasn't replied to my original e-mail, once Amazon contacted them, they added 2 more issues to my subscription. Big thanks goes again to the exceptional customer service from Amazon!
