SMSF Investment StrategiesSharing Simple Strategies for Self Managed Super Funds
How much are the new super rules costing you?
In the last budget, the Rudd government announced some major changes to super rules. We have been affected by some of these changes and today I calculated the cost to us and it came up to a stunning $13,291 per year! For the past 2 years, Kingsley had been contributing the maximum $50,000 into super [...]
Is China a leading indicator? Part 2
On August 20, I wrote my first post on this when the Shanghai Composite (SSEC) convincing broke through the multi-month uptrend line. Since then, the index has completed a failed retest of the trend line from the back side and has put in a lower high similar to Jan 08. This is very bearish and [...]
Module 1.3 How to protect stocks that do not have options
As promised, we have started on our training videos to show interested readers implement some of the investment strategies discussed in our blog posts. Our first training program is called “Options Education for the Stock Investor“. For the complete program, check out the Training Videos page. Below is the third video in this program.
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Module 1.2 How to protect stocks that have options
As promised, we have started on our training videos to show interested readers implement some of the investment strategies discussed in our blog posts. Our first training program is called “Options Education for the Stock Investor“. For the complete program, check out the Training Videos page. Below is the second video in this program.
NOTE: This [...]
Module 1.1 Introduction to Hedging
As promised, we have started on our training videos to show interested readers implement some of the investment strategies discussed in our blog posts. Our first training program is called “Options Education for the Stock Investor“. For the complete program, check out the Training Video page. Below is the first video in this program.
NOTE: This [...]
Case for Deflation
Asset deflation is already a foregone conclusion in the US as the price of property and stocks have been falling in the past two years. Price deflation only started to manifest itself later with CPI falling from mid 2008 and finally turning negative in 2009. Those who predicted deflation based their case on falling US [...]
Case for Inflation
There was widespread fear of inflation when we saw central banks all over the world increase the printing of their respective currencies in response to the liquidity crisis in 2007-08. With more money floating around, wouldn’t it be worth less? That’s what we normally see when there is excess supply of any commodity. As we [...]
Inflation or Deflation
‘Inflation or Deflation’ was a hotly debated topic in the popular Aussie Stock Forum last week so I thought I would write a few posts with my thoughts on this topic. There are many economists who are convinced that due to government action in the recent financial crisis, there will be high inflation in the [...]
