September 2019 Hello again and welcome to the third of our SMSF Connect Investment Series. I trust you are finding these to be of interest and I hope the discussions around cash flow and our most recent Cash- how much is enough in your SMSF to be useful. One of the most common requests received…
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September 11, 2019
ATO scrutiny on SMSF Trustees re investment strategies
September 2019 The ATO in September 2019 have written to 18,000 SMSF trustees where they believe the Fund holds more than 90% of its investments in a single asset or in a single asset class. They are concerned that the Trustee’s investment strategy may not be in compliance with the Superannuation legislation. In the letter…
September 5, 2019
Inverse yield curve
September 2019 On 14 August, the three major US sharemarket indicators went into a tailspin; the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 3.1 per cent, the S&P 500 2.4 per cent and the Nasdaq three per cent. And the villain in all this market selling? The inverse yield curve. For Australian investors waking up on…
August 26, 2019
Issue 2: Cash – How much is enough in your SMSF?
August 2019 Hello again, for those who read the first of our SMSF Connect Investment Series – The importance of cash flow in your SMSF, I hope it was useful. For the next in our series, we’re sticking with the cash theme and ask ‘Cash – how much is enough in your SMSF?’ SMSFs are…
August 22, 2019
Reflections from an investor
August 2019 Written by Hamish Douglass, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, Magellan Financial Group. Insights gathered from years of investing include thoughts on how to find the right investments, how to let investments work for you, risk management and the best temperament to have when investing. “Your goal as an investor should be simply to…
August 15, 2019
Beware transfer balance cap strategies when it comes to death benefits
August 2019 Opinion piece written by John Maroney, CEO, SMSF Association Published in the Australian Financial Review on 15 August 2019 Maximising your $1.6 million pension cap may backfire on your beneficiaries. Strategies to work around the $1.6 million transfer balance cap (TBC) may be useful for those in pension phase trying to maximise their retirement savings.…
August 8, 2019
Short term nerves trump long term wisdom
August 2019 Investors have a bad habit of doing the wrong thing in the wake of sharemarket lurches such as the one we are experiencing, basing their reaction on gut instinct rather than logic. Newspapers will blare “billions wiped off markets” and nervous investors will obey their overriding nervous sentiment and sell. “Australian shares lose…
August 6, 2019
SMSFs attract younger members
August 2019 Written by Robin Bowerman, Head of Corporate Affairs at Vanguard/Board Director of the SMSF Association Given that self-managed super funds (SMSFs) hold more than half of the retirement dollars in super, it is easy to assume that self-managed super is dominated by older members. Not so. In reality, a high proportion of investors establishing…
July 30, 2019
Issue 1 – The importance of cash flow in your SMSF
July 2019 Welcome to the first edition of the SMSF Connect Investment Series. Hi my name is Ian Irvine and I have been a keen investor for over 40 years. It all started when I was still at high school, when one evening my father took me to an education session at The Sydney Stock…
July 24, 2019
SMSF Association review of the Australian Taxation Office’s SMSF Statistical Overview 2016-2017
July 2019 The SMSF Association has released their review of the Australian Taxation Office’s 2016-17 statistical overview of SMSFs. It reveals a sector that has not only performed well but provides a positive outlook for its future growth and strong performance. So what are the key takeaways for SMSFs? The average SMSF establishment size rose…
