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SMSF Investment Master Plan – new free e-book
Since posting our 4-part series of blog posts on “How to prepare an Investment Strategy for your SMSF” in July 2009, they have consistently been some of the most popular posts on this blog. Our SMSF investment strategy sample has also been downloaded/viewed by a few hundred people, which has led us to believe that [...]
International shares – which ones are outperforming?
In my humble opinion, allocating some of your funds to invest in international shares is a good idea for any SMSF. Most large super funds do offer exposure to international shares but most SMSFs prefer to hold Australian shares only. One of the favourite investments for SMSFs are “blue chip” Australian shares but when you [...]
Australian house prices in 2010, part 3
I just had an “aha” moment this week about the Australian housing “puzzle” which I would like to share with you. For the past few months I have been puzzled by some of the data that I have seeing about property sales. We see record auction clearance rates yet the number of home loans have [...]
Is China a leading indicator? Part 4
I have been tracking the Shanghai Composite Index on this blog since August 2009, when it made a sharp 20% correction. When I last looked at the Shanghai Composite Index on December 22, 2009, it looked like it was on the verge of breaking the long-term up trend line that started from November 2008. It [...]
Saving is the new spending
“Saving is the new spending” is the tagline for Ubank, which is currently my favourite bank for my SMSF term deposits. I am not sure how true this is in Australia as the mood of the general public appears to be “relax, spend as the good times are coming back again”. Unemployment is down, our [...]
One year later
Firstly, I would like to apologize for not writing many new posts in the past two weeks as I have been focusing on writing an e-book on how to preparing an SMSF investment strategy, which I hope to publish on this site by April 1, 2010. Once again, many thanks to Dean Greacen from SMSF [...]
Hybrid Securities Part 3 – Preference shares
Many thanks to Dean Greacen from SMSF Investor for today’s post. Dean will be sharing with us a series of posts on Hybrid Securities, which could be a great investment for SMSFs seeking high yield with capital growth.
A preference share is a type of equity interest which has preferential rights over ordinary shares. The company’s profits [...]
Hybrid Securities Part 2 – Convertible notes
Many thanks to Dean Greacen from SMSF Investor for today’s post. Dean will be sharing with us a series of posts on Hybrid Securities, which could be a great investment for SMSFs seeking high yield with capital growth.
Convertible Notes are debt instruments that may be converted to an equity holding at a future date. [...]
