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II ETF in PMA

What the benefits or disadvantages holding II ETFs inside the PMA?

You can choose to hold an Intelligent Investor fund directly through your share broker or inside an InvestSMART PMA.

 

 

Inside PMA

Held through share broker

Time needed to buy

4-5 business days to reflect in your PMA

Shows immediately when purchased

Time needed to sell

You can process a withdrawal. Takes 1-2 business days to sell on market.

Can sell immediately at market price

Fees

You only pay the 0.97% p.a. inside the Intelligent Investor ETF

0.97% p.a.

Dividends

Dividends are paid into the cash component of the PMA. You can have income paid out monthly. The default is to have the dividends reinvested into the whole of the PMA. This means that your II ETF dividends may be invested into one of the InvestSMART portfolios if you hold them.

You can use dividend reinvestment or have them paid out.

Tax Statements

You generally have to wait until the PMA tax statements are ready.

You received these from the share registry as soon as they’re ready.

Adding to the II ETFs

You can add funds to the PMA and have them go to the II ETF but it may not be allocated depending on the amount. See ‘Cash allocation’.

You can add amounts as low as $500 through your share broker.

 

Related topics

Yes. You will receive a comprehensive tax statement at the end of financial year and you will receive the franking you're entitled to once you submit your tax return.

You should read the PMA target market determination to see the target market for each portfolio. In addition to this, InvestSMART has several tools and guides to help you select the right portfolio.

You will notice a common thread throughout the guides, the investment time frame. We recommend investors look at the suggested time frame associated with each portfolio to see if it aligns with their investment goal.

Here is a list of tools and guides to help select the right portfolio:

Calculators

Additionally, we have InvestSMART Bootcamp, which is a comprehensive investment course designed to get you started on the right foot.

Explore Bootcamp here.

The InvestSMART Professionally Managed Account (PMA) is established and offered within the registered managed investment scheme known as the Professionally Managed Accounts.

Each investor has a separate account to which their investments are allocated. You will require a different PMA for each investment entity you have e.g. individual, joint, SMSF etc.

A client will open an InvestSMART PMA and can then choose between the various InvestSMART Diversified Portfolios. An account can hold one or more models but can only hold one diversified portfolio. The management fee is charged at the account level, not per portfolio.

Once you decide which model portfolio(s) are best suited to your investment needs and objectives, we will purchase the investment to be included in your account to reflect the model portfolio or combination of model portfolios that you have selected.

When you open an InvestSMART Professionally Managed Account (PMA), you choose from InvestSMART's range of Diversified Portfolios to invest in.

A list of the portfolios can be found here.

These managed portfolios comprise of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) or, in some cases direct shares. In particular, the InvestSMART Hybrid Income Portfolio invests in Australian listed hybrids and listed debt securities.

What is an Exchange Traded Fund?

An Exchange Traded Fund, or ETF, is a managed fund that trades on the stock market.

There are different types of ETFs, each with its own purpose, but most commonly, they will track or follow a particular index.

For example, if you want to follow or track the S&P ASX 200 (the top 200 Australian shares by market capitalisation), you could either buy each individual share (200 shares) or one ETF. The one ETF wraps up the 200 shares into one holding. By holding this one ETF, you get exposure to the movements of the ASX 200, less any fees.

Investing in ETFs is a form of passive investing, and they generally incur cheaper management fees, as fewer investment decisions are required to manage an ETF. They are also quite liquid and traded easily on an exchange.

You can see the holdings of each InvestSMART managed portfolio by navigating to its product page and scrolling to Key Facts > Holdings.

Yes, all investments held within your InvestSMART PMA are held in your name (or chosen entity e.g. SMSF) in a CHESS sponsored broking account.

You are the registered legal and beneficial owner of a portfolio of securities. You can log into the investor website at any time to view the individual securities that make up your Account.