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Christina’s Life Story Part 5: My Last Job
To help our readers know us better, we will be writing some posts about our backgrounds. This is Part 5 of 6 of Christina’s life story. For a complete story, please go to the “Our Story” tab on the homepage of our blog. The cold realisation that I had no retirement plan dawned on me [...]
Christina’s Life Story Part 4: My Lost Decade
To help our readers know us better, we will be writing some posts about our backgrounds. This is Part 4 of 6 of Christina’s life story. For a complete story, please go to the “Our Story” tab on the homepage of our blog. My lost decade started at the same time as Japan’s in 1989 [...]
Investment Strategy Part 4: Summary and Example
This is the final part of this four part series of posts on Preparing the Investment Strategy for your SMSF (the complete series can also be found on the Articles page). To wrap up, I will just summarise some of our discussions and give an example of how to prepare this document and when you [...]
Investment Strategy Part 3: Passive vs Active Investment Methods
This is Part 3 of a four part series of posts on Preparing the Investment Strategy for your SMSF (the complete series can also be found on the Articles page). In my previous post, I talked about using Asset Allocation as an investment method. This is a passive investment method and we found it inadequate [...]
Part 3 – Elephants Can’t Juggle Eggs
“An investor needs to do very few things as long as he or she avoids big mistakes” – Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, 2000 In the first post in this mini series I talked briefly about the inability of public super funds to act quickly, followed by a post which discussed control, and last [...]
Investment Strategy Part 2: What should be in it?
This is Part 2 of a four part series of posts on Preparing the Investment Strategy for your SMSF (the complete series can also be found on the Articles page). The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has issued a guideline for what should be in your investment strategy, which can be found on the ATO website. [...]
Investment Strategy Part 1: Why have one?
This is Part 1 of a four part series of posts on Preparing the Investment Strategy for your SMSF (the complete series can also be found on the Articles page). I was planning to commence this series of posts after I completed the series on My Life Story but after my conversation with my mother-in-law [...]
Christina’s Life Story Part 3: My First Job
To help our readers know us better, we will be writing some posts about our backgrounds. This is Part 3 of 6 of Christina’s life story. For a complete story, please go to the “Our Story” tab on the homepage of our blog. The job prospects for Computer Science graduates were indeed very good. Company [...]
Christina’s Life Story Part 2: In Australia as an Overseas Student
To help our readers know us better, we will be writing some posts about our backgrounds. This is Part 2 of 6 of Christina’s life story. For a complete story, please go to the “Our Story” tab on the homepage of our blog. In 1979, I left Malaysia to study in The University of Melbourne [...]
Christina’s Life Story Part 1: Growing up in Malaysia
To help our readers know us better, we will be writing some posts about our backgrounds. This is Part 1 of 6 of Christina’s life story. For a complete story, please go to the “Our Story” tab on the homepage of our blog. I was born in Singapore on July 8, 1960. Our family moved [...]
