Moomin Valley

Gradually, over time I am fixing errors in my old accounts. I want to have a reasonably accurate record of investment performance and spendi...

Two of the partners of ASA who managed the Diversified Property Fund we are invested in have been on podcasts recently. Here are the links f...

I made a small investment of 500 shares of this ETF in the SMSF. It is an ETF of master limited partnerships, which are entities owning pipe...

The smaller investments have done better here, which is not optimal... TIAA Real Estate Portfolio Share: 3.3% IRR: 4%.  I don't have ...

We start with our best investment ever in dollar terms: gold.  I first invested in gold back in 2006. Then there was a long period where th...

After a couple of failed attempts at merging the Diversified Property Fund with other funds, Australian Unity has decided to rid itself of...

Fundrise have come out and said that they think the bottom is in in the commercial real estate market. Coincides with my assessment that ma...

Australian Unity and Cromwell announce that their fund merger plan is cancelled . I wasn't very enthusiastic about the merger and so am...

I blogged recently about the proposed merger between the Australian Unity Diversified Property Fund and a Cromwell office fund. Today, I was...

Australian Unity Diversified Property Fun has a new merger proposal on the table following the failed merger in 2021-22 . This is a merger w...

On the last trading day before Christmas, Domacom has been reinstated to quotation. I wonder where the price will end up? 7:27pm It went up...

  Regal Investment Fund (RF1.AX) is continuing to diversify their portfolio. Recently, they added a water strategy through Kilter Rural. Now...

  I just calculated the return on my TIAA-CREF 403b in Australian Dollar terms to compare to our Australian superannuation funds. While the ...

A couple of days ago, I went on the Domacom platform just to see if anything was new. I found an offer to sell about 10,000 units in a semi...

   Masterworks sold Lured by Cecily Brown for USD 1 million. The initial offer price was USD 605k. We are supposed to get the money within...

After reading the most recent quarterly report I decided to get out of URF . I'm not optimistic that even if the shareholders vote again...

 I invested in another painting at Masterworks, No Hopeless by Yoshitomo Nara: This takes my investment back up to 12 paintings again, give...

Good news at Domacom (DCL.AX). They announced today that they have appointed John Hewson as chairman and John Elkovich as the new CEO. He...

The U.S. Masters Residential Property Fund (URF.AX) announced they are selling their property portfolio at a discount. As a result, they wil...

Back in May , I predicted that the TIAA Real Estate Fund would perform well and shifted almost all my US retirement account into it. Well, i...