SMSF Investment StrategiesSharing Simple Strategies for Self Managed Super Funds
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Does your SMSF need more fixed income?
The default allocation for super funds in Australia is the “balanced portfolio” which typically has 60 per cent or more allocated to shares. However, this is not necessarily the norm for pension funds in other countries. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Australian investors have the highest portfolio allocation to shares [...]
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 [...]
How should you measure your SMSF performance?
Most mutual funds measure their performance against a market index and I know some Self Managed Super Funds (SMSF) do the same. Each public fund has an investment strategy which is outlined in their product disclosure statement (PDS) and it cannot be changed by the fund manager without the approval of the members of the [...]
Risk vs Reward
After the spectacular stock market rally of 2009, even the most bullish analyst is not expecting an encore of this performance in 2010. The more optimistic forecasts are for a 10-20% increase but the odds are higher for stocks to go sideways or down in 2010. There is still a lot of uncertainty if the [...]
My outlook for 2010
I wish I can be a little bit more enthusiastic when I exchange “Happy New Year” wishes with family and friends. I just cannot do it because deep inside, I think there will be more pain to come in 2010 for investors. When I look at the events that have taken place in the past [...]
2009 Performance of SMSFs
Last week we had a few performance reports released for SMSFs and large super funds. On Thursday 20 Aug 2009, the large SMSF administration specialist Super Concepts released the average annual returns and average asset allocations for 2008-09 for a sizeable portion of the funds under its administration. Thanks to Robin Bowerman for bringing this [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
