Spaceship began in 2016, the same year Britain voted to leave the EU and Donald Trump became president of the USA. We launched our first product, Spaceship Super, in 2017, and followed it up with Spaceship Voyager, in 2018.
In January, as we set out on our fourth year, we knew we had big plans for 2020. (But, you know, who didn’t?) We’d just released our Spaceship Voyager web app and had started planning our next two projects: the ability for Spaceship Voyager customers to link their Spaceship Super account in the Spaceship app, and the merging of our two websites into one (at spaceship.com.au).
Now it’s July, and whether you look back to when Spaceship first launched in 2016 or you look back to this past January, a certain quote by French philosopher Sartre comes to mind: “Nothing has changed and yet everything is different.”
Like most startups, we’ve had a bumpy ride at times.
There have been periods where we’ve moved too fast or we’ve had to pause plans. No one could have imagined a global pandemic would mean we’d all start working from home. Many of us haven’t seen each other for months, other than by video. Some newer Spaceship employees have only met the rest of the team by video.
But one of the things that has held Spaceship together is that we — the people I work with every day — are united in our mission: to enable you to invest in your future, so you can live the life you want to live. That’s why we get up and go to work every day.
Everything is different, yet that hasn’t changed.
As I wrote last year, we want you to think about what our mission means to you. Maybe right now, an investment in your future is $5 into your Spaceship Voyager account every week. Or maybe it’s just reading our Real Money Talk series and taking notes.
For us, it’s about living up to our side of the bargain and providing you with the tools to make investing in your future easy. And now that we’re entering a new financial year, we wanted to share with you how part of our mission is bearing fruit.
In the 2019-2020 financial year:
The Spaceship Universe Portfolio returned 36.19% in the year to 30 June 2020 and 23.60% pa since the Funded Date* (15 May 2018) (25 months).
The Spaceship Origin Portfolio returned 3.68% in the year to 30 June 2020 and 8.07% pa since the Funded Date* (15 May 2018) (25 months).
We know that “living the life you want to live” might feel a bit different than you expected right now, but we’re so thankful you’ve decided to join us on our journey, perhaps at a time when investing in your future is more important than ever.
Happy new (financial) year!
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance and is provided for your information purposes only. Returns are net fees, and not a projection.
*The Funded Date of 15 May 2018 represents the date on which each fund was able to invest in most of the companies in its relevant reference indices.
