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Monday, June 21, 2021

Update on PSTH

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Bill Ackman posted a link to this presentatio n on Twitter. I have 3,000 shares or a 2% of net worth position. We also have 5,000 shares of...
Monday, June 14, 2021

Investments Review: Part 8, Managed Futures

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Managed futures have not performed well in recent years, but I am betting that they will make a bit of a comeback. Macquarie Winton Global A...

Investments Review: Part 7, Bonds

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MCP Income Opportunities Fund (MOT.AX). Share of net worth: 1.75%. IRR: 14.8%. This fund invests in Australian private credit. It yields ar...

Investments Review: Part 6, Real Assets

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In my usual reporting, gold is a separate category from real assets. I plan to put 10% of gross assets into gold and 15% into real assets. 1...

Investments Review: Part 5, Private Equity

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The private equity category includes both venture capital, buyout funds, and SPACs, which acquire private companies to take them public. W...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

Pershing Square Tontine Holdings

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This video was posted on Reddit and endorsed by Bill Ackman on Twitter . I had been thinking about buying into Pershing Square Tontine Hol...
Tuesday, June 08, 2021

Investments Review: Part 4, Hedge Funds

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Regal Funds (RF1.AX). Share of net worth: 5.63%. IRR: 45.7%. This is a multi-strategy hedge fund listed on the ASX that has performed very w...
Sunday, June 06, 2021

Cancelled Moominmama's Income Protection Insurance

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In 2019 I cancelled my own , but didn't know I could cancel Moominmama's. As she is 11 years younger than me, the premia were nowher...
Wednesday, June 02, 2021

May 2021 Report

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This was a month of consolidation as I tidied up the SMSF and its repercussions and launched a review of all our investments . The Australia...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

More Investment Review Actions

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 Following up on Parts 1 and 3 of the Investment Review I am making the following changes: 1. Switching from CFS Future Leaders to CFS Dev...

Investments Review: Part 3, Small Cap Australian Equities

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CFS Developing Companies . Share of net worth: 2.14%. IRR: 12.86%. This is one of my oldest investments. I originally invested in May 1997. ...
Friday, May 21, 2021

Career Update etc.

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About a month ago I posted about my career decision-making . So, because I ummed and ahhed, the incoming director found someone else for the...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2021

TIAA Real Estate Fund

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I haven't gotten around to reviewing the TIAA Real Estate Fund yet, but have decided to buy more of it. There are two reasons. First, af...
Monday, May 17, 2021

Already Making Changes Based on the Investment Review

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I've only done the first two parts of the Investments Review , but am already making changes to our portfolio based on it. I switched ou...
Sunday, May 16, 2021

Third Point and AlphaSimplex

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I don't write much on the blog about investments I evaluated but rejected. There are quite a lot of these, of course. Recently, I evalua...

Investments Review: Part 2, Long-only Large Cap Equities

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For the second part of the investments review , I am looking at our long-only large cap equities funds. Usually, I would divide these into A...
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Saturday, May 15, 2021

Investments Review: Part 1, Diversified Funds

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After noting that we had at a conservative count, 40 different investments, I thought it'd be a good idea to do a review of all of them ...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Adjusting Estimated Real Estate Exposure for Leverage

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I realized that because the URF.AX fund, which is invested in New York and New Jersey real estate, is highly levered, my exposure to real es...
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Two More New Investments

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We're still in the process of reinvesting after the most recent reorganization, which centred on rolling over my Colonial First State su...
Monday, May 10, 2021

And in to Ruffer

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  I invested most of the remaining cash in the SMSF into Ruffer Investment Company . This is a closed end fund trading on the London Stock E...

Got Out of Treasury Wine

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Was getting bored of Treasury Wine (TWE.AX) so I exited the position. Probably now there will be a takeover announced :) Previous rumours a...
Wednesday, May 05, 2021

First Investment through Domacom

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    I made my first investment using the Domacom platform . I bought some shares in a cattle grazing property in Victoria. Mostly, I just wa...
Monday, May 03, 2021

April 2021 Report

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This month we completed the initial investments in our self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF). I stopped systematic trading for the moment....
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Saturday, April 24, 2021

Career Decision-Making

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My university has a big deficit currently and one money-saving move has been to ask people who are eligible to take long-service leave. Ever...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Argo Investments Again

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   Back in 2012 I invested in Argo Investments for a while. I don't know why I sold it. There were no new investments that month and I d...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Bond Investments and Overall SMSF Allocation

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I made three bond investments and have completed the initial investments for the SMSF. I bought two US baby bonds - Scorpio Tankers ( SBBA )...
Monday, April 19, 2021

Second New Property Investment: Domacom

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I made a second property investment application today. This one is to Domacom which is a fractional property investment or crowdfunding pl...

New Investment: Australian Unity Diversified Property Fund

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This is the first new investment in our SMSF. Real estate is the area where we are most underinvested relative to our target allocation. The...
Thursday, April 08, 2021

Stopping Systematic Trading Again...

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Of course, bitcoin went straight down after I got in and I have now closed that trade. There was no real basis to that trade. I just went i...
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Tuesday, April 06, 2021

Bitcoin

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 I'm finally back into Bitcoin. The position I could get was tiny. Margin requirements are crazy. On IB they are something like twice th...
Friday, April 02, 2021

March 2021 Report

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This month we took some big steps towards fully setting up our self-managed super fund. Trading didn't go well, but I persisted, followi...
Thursday, March 11, 2021

Trading Not Going Well

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Last three ASX200 trades were stopped out, which is very unusual. The worst in the backtest was two stop outs in a row. Each day the market ...
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

ATO Audit of SMSF Applications

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I didn't know that the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) audits applications for new Self Managed Superannuation Funds (SMSF). This guy f...
Sunday, March 07, 2021

February SPI Trading Performance

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I made AUD 589 trading ASX 200 futures and CFDs in February. I have now compared my trades to the trades the algorithm specifies. If I had t...
Saturday, March 06, 2021

Hedge Funds Outperform Again in February

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HEDGE FUNDS SURGE IN FEBRUARY AS INTEREST RATES RISE HFRI Equity Hedge leads broad-based gains as retail trading tre...
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I'm an economist and an active investor and currently live in Australia. I'm a global investor though I focus on investments in the Anglophone world and particularly in Australia. This blog tracks investment performance and discusses personal finance, investing, and trading from an economic perspective. In the picture, Moomin is looking for treasure.
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