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Old 13-08-2008, 08:50 PM   #31 (permalink)
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My super is down 25.39% since May last year.
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I am surprised it dropped by this much.
Which super company are you with and what plan were you on?
I am with Australian Super and only their 100% share funds lost over 10%

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Old 14-08-2008, 02:28 PM   #32 (permalink)
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I am surprised it dropped by this much.
Which super company are you with and what plan were you on?
I am with Australian Super and only their 100% share funds lost over 10%

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Got out of the balanced plans because they werent aggresive enough and I have 25 years until retirement.

The funds that the super invests in are:

Colonial First State Geared Share Fund
Colonial First State Ws Prop Sec Fund
GMO Australian Small Companies Trust
Platinum Asia Fund
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Old 14-08-2008, 02:56 PM   #33 (permalink)
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I see...
I don't have 25 years, in fact I want to retire yesterday...

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Old 14-08-2008, 02:58 PM   #34 (permalink)
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I don't have 25 years, in fact I want to retire yesterday...

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reasonable fund choices though if I'm looking for aggressive growth?
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reasonable fund choices though if I'm looking for aggressive growth?
not bad, but you could lose a lot of money in this climate...
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Old 14-08-2008, 05:19 PM   #36 (permalink)
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not bad, but you could lose a lot of money in this climate...
I'll see where it is in 10 years. As a hobby (and to have a reasonable feel for what the markets are doing) I'm grabbing the unit prices daily and adding them to a spreadsheet.
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Old 14-08-2008, 10:51 PM   #37 (permalink)
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An update from my spreadsheet. For today (which is a lag of two days as far as I can tell) I'm down 20.9%, on 7/8/08 I was down 25.09% Platnum Asia is almost back to 0%
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Old 14-08-2008, 11:43 PM   #38 (permalink)
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Platnum Asia is almost back to 0%
That's great, but is it a true recovery?
does our $ value have something to do with it?

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Old 15-08-2008, 08:31 AM   #39 (permalink)
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That's great, but is it a true recovery?
does our $ value have something to do with it?

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our dollar is weaker against the US dollar, and thats it.. so it shouldn't affect Asian/european investments. Correct me if I'm wrong?
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our dollar is weaker against the US dollar, and thats it.. so it shouldn't affect Asian/european investments. Correct me if I'm wrong?
You are wrong.
In relation to USD, EUR and GBP is also down (JPY and CHF is up).
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