SMSF Investment StrategiesSharing Simple Strategies for Self Managed Super Funds
Increasing yield through selling options
Volatility is the only thing we can be certain of today. The crazy price action in the past 3 months is enough to make any prudent investor want to stay away from the stock market. However, if we take a closer look at the market action, we can still find some safe investment strategies using [...]
Options for Stock Investors Training Pilot
Update (12 April 2012): The pilot has been completed and our training and mentoring program is now “live”. Please visit our “Low Risk Income Strategies” website for more information. We have finally completed the last of the training videos and our Options for Stock Investors training program is now ready for pilot testing. We would [...]
Low risk and high yield
Low risk and high yield is the elusive goal that all investors strive to achieve. The conventional wisdom is “low risk, low return” and “high risk, high return” i.e. we need to take higher risk if we want a higher return. This is so true when we look at the interest rates for bonds today. [...]
Learn, Do, Teach
We just received the FY2011 financial statements for our SMSF and once again we are very pleased with the returns from our Australian stock portfolio. For the past 3 years, we have been using options to enhance the returns on our stock portfolio using the simple strategies that we have shared on this blog such [...]
A safe bear market strategy (only if you like the greeks)
In August 2009, I wrote about two strategies that SMSFs can use to profit in a falling market, which is to buy put options or to buy shares in inverse ETFs. The market has been falling for the past few weeks. Both these strategies can work well if the market continues to fall but you [...]
