Wednesday, 4 March 2026

GenLife Investment Bond Update

I finally got around to updating my sharesight portfolio tracker with my latest quarterly Investment Bond contribution transactions (processed on 17 Feb). Currently the quarterly contribution is around $1,825 each quarter, and I will continue to increase this by 125% annually until it reaches $50Kpa (which is approximately what my 'surplus' tax-free self-funded pension income will be). In the meantime I will store any 'surplus' pension income in my investment property mortgage offset account.

So far the annual ROI (after the ~30% tax paid by IB) is 8.57%pa, which seems OK. The investment allocation is fairly boring:

35% iShares Wholesale International Equity Index Fund

25% Vanguard High Growth Portfolio

20% Perpetual Geared Australian Share Fund

20% Dimensional World 70/30 Fund

I have automatic annual rebalancing in place, and the overall asset mix as at 31 Dec was:

Cash

0.19%

Australian fixed interest

0.76%

International fixed interest

7.72%

Australian shares

28.34%

International shares

62.99%

Australian property

0.00%

International property

0.00%


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