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Is Negative Gearing a Good ETF?
The term negative gearing is predominantly used in the property spheres, but it's actually nowhere to be found in the tax legislation. What you've described if selling the asset as a loss is called a capital loss. You can't claim a capital loss against your general income, but if you make a capital gain, barring some discounts which can be applicable, you will need to add that to the overall accessible income. To answer your question, you need to work out what your portfolio is. If your portfolio is good, hang on to it. If your portfolios is bad, then, yeah, get out of it. Overall, sticking to a broad market ETF or index fund, I think that's