The female SMSF opportunity: What advisers need to know
Five years ago, when I was working at National Australia Bank, I set up my own self-managed super fund (SMSF).
At the time, I was dissatisfied with what the big super funds were offering. The options felt limited, the structures rigid, and the agency over my own money almost non-existent. I wanted more control and more ability to shape my investments around my convictions.
The catalyst for me was cryptocurrency.
Coming from a banking background, I was not a “crypto native”. But I could see that digital assets were fast becoming part of the future of finance. And the reality then, as now, is that if you want to include cryptocurrency as part of a retirement portfolio, the only viable pathway is through an SMSF.
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