SMSF trustees leap off the fence and put their dollars to work AUSTRALIA'S 500,000 self-managed super funds no longer have such big amounts of cash sloshing around while trustees sit on the fence. Analyst Recep Peker of Investment Trends yesterday unveiled a survey of 2000 SMSFs showing that while the amount of money in the funds is still growing -- and recently reached $496 billion or almost one third of Australia's superannuation pie -- the amount of what he called "surplus cash" had dropped from $50bn to $46bn in the year to April.