SMSF Investment StrategiesSharing Simple Strategies for Self Managed Super Funds
Why I am (still) buying Telstra
Today is expiration day for August 09 ASX Exchange Traded Options. By end of today, I will know if SLI Super would have become the owner of another 9360 Telstra shares. On 20 July 2009, I sold 9 contracts of Telstra 3.36 Aug09 put option for 0.15 per share. At the time of writing this [...]
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 [...]
3 Good Reasons Why Stock Investors Should Learn About Options Today
At the time of writing this post, the All Ordinaries has rebounded about 30% from the March 2009 lows. Some individual stocks have even done better than that. Rio Tinto went up 80% from $43 in March 09 to $77 in June 09. The rally has taken a pause after touching 4000 and we really [...]
Generate your own dividends
Many people buy stocks for their dividends which is a pretty sound strategy for SMSFs, especially if your plan is for your super fund to provide you with income when you are retired. In the Australian market, bank stocks were a favourite among dividend seeking investors. Many financial planners were advocating buying bank stocks in [...]
