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Timing the share market is hard – just ask your super fund

  • Written by David Bell, Executive Director, The Conexus Institute; Associate Investigator, CEPAR, UNSW
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The past financial year has been one of the most volatile on record for stock markets, yet almost every Australian super fund has delivered similar returns.

This not only demonstrates that super funds very rarely make large calls about when to buy and sell, it also gives an insight into what we should do when making our own...

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