Manage your own ’Balanced’ Super fund using index ETFs
Industry Super Fund, AustralianSuper is very noisy in the press regularly bagging SMSFs, talking up their returns and results, and highlighting the amount of funds they have under management. Their Balanced Fund, which has more than $65 billion under management, returned 10.86% for the 2014-15 financial year after fees and taxes. The average annual return for […]
Market Volatility – it’s Cause and the Effect on Investors
Put simply, volatility is the up and down movement of the market. It is usually measured by any deviation from how the market is expected to perform. A common analogy is that of a ship in the ocean, come volatile weather it will be thrown about as the water swells to rise and fall beneath […]
Mechanical Investment – Removing Fear from Trading
Gary Stone advocates and personally uses, a mechanical investment approach. You will often hear him talk about it in interviews, or write about it on social media. What is mechanical investing? In Gary’s Why I’m a mechanical trader post he defined mechanical investing as: ‘…using a distinct set of well defined rules which instruct the […]