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Jelena Stevanovic
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
PLATYPUS ASSET MANAGEMENT HOLDINGS PTY LTD
PLATYPUS ASSET MANAGEMENT HOLDINGS PTY LTD
As the new chief executive of Platypus Asset Management, Jelena Stevanovic hopes to continue the fund manager's long tradition of outperformance with patience and by fostering meaningful relationships with clients and staff. Karren Vergara writes.
Once we stop deluding ourselves that share price increases (ie windfall 'paper' profits) are investment returns, we might start to get somewhere in Australia's having a decent retirement incomes policy. The 2008-09 GFC - from which share-prices have yet to fully recover - surely demonstrated this fact.
Dividend receipts, interest earnings, rental incomes and REALISED capital gains are the only real investment returns.
Share-price changes are merely 'on paper' and delusional and, at best, a speculative approach to retirement income planning.
Time we woke up, Australia!