Investors Voice Archive: 15 Jun, 2018

Noting the current US equity bull market recently passed its ninth anniversary, increasingly, opportunities exist in identifying individual stocks with compelling business characteristics rather than riding the vagaries of entire markets.

Women traditionally can be inclined to be the ‘over-achiever’ when it comes to running their family affairs, juggling a career, running a household, looking after children & elderly family members and community.

While Australian infrastructure upgrades move at a snail’s pace, completely the opposite is happening in China where major investments in critical transport infrastructure, particularly airports, will drive an Asian tourism boom the likes of which has not been seen since the Japanese tourism boom of the 1990s.

While the current bout of weakness may only cause the market to fall 5-10 per cent, we believe it may be a dress rehearsal for a much more sinister period in the next 12-24 months.

Access to a new type of personal super contribution is available from 1 July 2018 – the ‘Downsizer’ contribution. It gives older Australians the opportunity to transfer money into super after reaching 65 without overly complex rules applying.

Less red tape and more flexibility would result from a decision to expand the number of members allowed in a self-managed super fund (SMSF) from four to six, the Federal Government says.