Blog Profile / Smart Investing
| URL : | http://blogs.news.com.au/news/smartinvesting/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Business & Finance / Investing | |
| Posts on Regator: | 340 | |
| Posts / Week: | 2.1 | |
| Archived Since: | May 6, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
Fixing your interest for the long term
In January 2012 the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) paved the way for fixed income exchange traded funds to be listed for trading. The upcoming launch…
Retirement looms for many more SMSF members
When SMSFs begin to pay pensions or lump sums to one or more members, their compliance obligations understandably increase. And the tax office…
Willing property losers expect to recover
The Taxation Statistics 2010-11 report, released by the tax office over the past week, highlights the willingness of many investors to initially lose money on…
The power of the super dashboard
Information, it is often said in the business management world, is power. But in reality information is only powerful if it’s meaning is understood and…
Getting back to super’s basics
It seems almost an understatement to say that Australia’s superannuation system remains highly complex. This is despite various efforts over the years to simplify it.…
Home alone
It is widely recognised that married households typically have higher retirement savings than single households. However, a recent US study - The composition…
High fees impact on investment returns
Research has shown time and time again that many share funds struggle to even match their indices over the short and long term. …
A matter of confidence
The degree of consternation triggered by pre-budget speculation about possible changes to the taxation of super underlines the growing importance of superannuation as a means…
Squeezed from both sides
Many baby boomers are still providing financial help to their adult children - who are perhaps still living at home - while helping their ageing…
Counting the cost of constant super change
The philosopher who coined the phrase the only constant is change could well have had Australia’s superannuation system in mind. You would have…
All-year vigilance
Super fund members trying to maximise super savings in their countdown to retirement need to remain vigilant all year regarding their annual contributions caps. …
The growing return expectation gap
The number of jobs created in the Australian economy is one of those signals that cuts through a lot of market noise. With…
SMSFs: A $474 billion target for scams
Watch out. The $474 billion-plus in SMSF assets present a hard-to-resist target for criminals who are determined to get a chunk of Australia’s retirement savings.…
Super-charged growth, super-charged changes
A table in the latest Superannuation Market Projections report published by Rice Warner Actuaries truly underlines how things have changed in super over the past…
Diversification the cure for Eurozone indigestion
Italians have given the world many culinary delights. Their national elections this month, however, left investors with a bad case of indigestion. The…
The cost of underperformance
Many investors take a core-satellite approach to investing in shares because they recognise that it is extremely difficult to consistently outperform the market. …
Reluctant borrowers – so far
The share market’s strong recent performance will inevitably tempt some investors to borrow to invest. As the most-recently-available Reserve Bank statistics indicate, many…
A telling question for baby boomers
How have your retirement savings fared over the past five to 10 years? This is a particularly pertinent question given the huge waves of baby…
ETF growth
Funds under management in exchange traded products – Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and Exchange Traded Commodities – grew to $6.9 billion by the end of…
Love, money and relationship breakdowns
A recently-released ABS report, “Marriages and Divorces, Australia”, suggests that more than 40% of marriages end in divorce – and that’s not counting failed de…