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A chief analyst has spoken out about the future state of Australia’s sharemarket, including its best and worst-performing sectors.

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Dale Gillham, chief analyst at Wealth Within, said the Australian sharemarket remains strong, with the All Ordinaries Index moving higher for two consecutive weeks.

“In doing so, [it] achieved a new all-time high of 7,289 points to indicate that market is indeed bullish,” Mr Gillham said.

“Moving forward, I believe it will remain bullish for the next two to three weeks and trade up to my top end target of 7,600 points by late March or April before falling away into the next low.

“Investors would be wise to stick with good quality stocks and not speculate on the lower end of the market, as you are likely to get burnt when the market does fall.”

According to Mr Gillham, there are several sectors posting stronger results than others.

“Healthcare was back on the top of the list for best-performing sector this week, rising over 1.6 per cent so far and slightly ahead of real estate and consumer staples, which were both up over 1.2 per cent,” he said.

“Information technology was the worst performer, down nearly 5 per cent, and financials, which was last week’s top-performing sector, is slightly in the red, followed by communication services, which is slightly in the green.

“Looking at the top 100 stocks, the best performers include Cleanaway Waste Management, which has risen over 20 per cent after announcing a 14 per cent rise in net profit. AMP also performed well, rising over 12 per cent, with Domino’s Pizza not far behind, rising just over 11 per cent so far for the week.

“The worst performers include Whitehaven Coal, down around 10 per cent, followed by Tabcorp, down over 8 per cent, with Bendigo Adelaide Bank and Nine Entertainment down over 5 per cent.”

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Whether you’re an investor in shares or property, the current low inflation environment could be a positive for gains, suggests a leading economist.

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According to AMP Capital’s head of investment strategy and chief economist, Dr Shane Oliver, lower inflation equals higher price-to-earnings, lifting the price of shares.

A rise in PEs in response to low inflation, provided it's not deflation, makes sense for three reasons, according to Dr Oliver.

“First, low inflation means lower interest rates, which boosts the value of future profits and dividends making shares more attractive. Or put simply, lower inflation and interest rates boosts the attractiveness of higher yielding assets so investors switch into those higher yielding assets, which pushes up their price relative to their earnings, dividends or rents,” Dr Oliver explains.

“Second, low inflation means reduced economic volatility and uncertainty, and hence investors are prepared to price shares on higher price-to-earnings multiples.”

“Finally, low inflation means improved quality of earnings as firms tend to understate depreciation when inflation is high and so overstate actual earnings. So again, investors are prepared to pay more for shares when inflation is low.”

Dr Oliver continued to show that, basically, the same applies in relation to property and other assets in that lower inflation drives higher valuations for them as well.

“This is evident in lower rental yields (or capitalisation rates) as lower inflation and interest rates pushes up the price relative to rents that investors are prepared to buy property at. This has certainly happened in Australian property markets with rental yields falling sharply since the 1980s and 1990s,” he said.

The downside

While it might sound like a positive for investors seeing the value of their assets increasing, the chief economist warns of two downsides.

First, valuations are no guide to timing markets and none of this precludes a correction in shares.

“Second, just as low interest rates and low bond yields mean low prospective returns from cash and bonds, high PEs – or their inverse of lower earnings yields – and lower rental yields for property point to more constrained returns from shares and property on a medium-term basis,” Dr Oliver concluded.

“The bottom line is that while shares may be vulnerable to a correction, the rally in markets does not seem excessive given the low inflation and low interest rate environment.”

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Whether you’re an investor in shares or property, the current low inflation environment could be a positive for gains, suggests a leading economist.

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A trading expert has offered some insight into the world of shares, highlighting just how important a plan can be for successful investing.

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Speaking recently about the characteristics of successful investors on the nestegg Podcast, chief market strategist at CMC Markets Michael McCarthy said that while there is a huge variety of successful approaches to the investment market that depend on a multitude of factors, they all have one thing in common – an investment plan. 

The expert trader said professional hedge fund investors and proprietary traders are always working towards the development of a tried-and-tested plan.

“They start with a plan, start implementing it and turn it into a process,” he outlined.

Acting according only to an investment plan is key to success, according to Mr McCarthy, even where investment plans “can be wildly disparate”.

“For some people, it’s a set and forget – they know they’re going to be in the market for 25 years at least, they simply identify stocks that they might want to own, and when those stocks are sold down, they add them to their portfolio.”

For these types of people, “they might have a few alerts around the quality stocks they like”, but also might not look at the market for months at a time.

Mr McCarthy has acknowledged himself as someone who sits at the other end of the spectrum, finding it hard to look away.

“One of my challenges as [an] investor is not to turn my portfolio too much,” he said.

For someone such as himself, a plan becomes all the more important to stick to.

“Now, that involves not only implementing the plan in the market, but reviewing our investment activity,” he explained.

It’s important, especially so for more active traders, to revisit transactions after the fact.

He advocated for querying, “Did that purchase really fit my investment plan?” each time you make a trade.

“Comparing it to what we pre-decided should be part of the plan and deciding if our actions are consistent,” he offered, emphasising the importance of refining the investment process.

And for more active or involved individuals, that process might involve checking the market every day at 5PM, identifying any possible opportunities and then rechecking the market at 10:30 the next morning to see if any of those opportunities are lining up, and then trying to leave it alone in between,” Mr McCarthy outlined.

With markets teaching cruel lessons at times, Mr McCarthy also discussed the unavoidable impact our emotions can have on our investment outcomes.

“The problem, of course, for investors is [that] when our portfolio value is plummeting, it hits us hard. We feel fear, we can panic,” he acknowledged.

As a result, “getting the balance right between understanding what our emotions are telling us about the market, but acting according only to our investment plan is key, once again, to success”.

This is where tools can come in to protect investors, according to the professional investor.

“For those of us who are prone to be overactive in the market”, Mr McCarthy flagged how “we can walk away”.

“Things like stop-loss orders are very powerful risk management tools that allow us to go about daily business if we’re not involved in the markets, and still know that we’ve got some safety in our portfolio,” the trader offered.

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An almost $200 million hit to company profits and a declaration that there will be no shareholder dividends for 2019 haven’t been enough to prevent AMP’s CEO from potentially taking home a pay packet that’s double his base salary in 2020.

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The wealth giant’s board has confirmed an “adjustment” to CEO Francesco De Ferrari’s remuneration terms, which will boost his short-term incentive opportunity to 200 per cent of his base salary – replacing the maximum short-term incentive opportunity of 120 per cent of his base salary.

Mr De Ferrari was appointed with a base salary of $2.2 million back in August 2018.

According to AMP, the change will only apply to the maximum short-term incentive opportunity achievable if all targets set for the CEO are exceeded.

When questioned by media about the potential for him to take home an even bigger slice of the pie, Mr De Ferrari outlined that his remuneration is set by the board “and is a matter for the board”.

“Our bonuses are discretionary.”

Emphasising that the announcement regarding the remuneration update was around “the maximum opportunity”, the CEO conceded: “I suppose if I don’t perform, I don’t get paid.”

“I’m really focused on delivering the three-year plan that I came here to deliver,” he added.

“And so I’m really driven and passionate by the purpose and delivering the strategy.”

Mr De Ferrari was speaking about the “three-year transformation” that is currently being undertaken by AMP.

Noting 2019 as a “fundamental reset”, the CEO said the wealth giant had rebased its business, set out a new group strategy and strengthened its capital base to accelerate the execution of its strategy.

“In a period of unprecedented legislative and regulatory pressure, we have established a strong three-year roadmap for recovery. Our focus is now on delivery,” he offered.

Across its entire suite of business units, AMP recorded a 25 per cent hit to profits in the 2019 financial year.

Most notable was a 50 per cent hit to operational earnings by its Australian wealth management business – from $363 million in 2018 to just $182 million in 2019.

AMP Bank and New Zealand wealth management also recorded lower earnings: AMP Bank saw a 4.7 per cent drop from $148 million in 2018 to $141 million in 2019, while New Zealand wealth management reported a 17 per cent drop in operational earnings from $53 million to $44 million.

AMP Capital managed to buck the trend, boosting its operating earnings by almost 20 per cent in 2019 compared with 2018 – pulling in $198 million in 2019 compared with 2018’s $167 million.

The losses have flowed through to AMP’s ultimate capital positioning in the market and led the board to make the decision to not declare a final dividend for shareholders.

Its official positioning, as outlined by the report, was this: “To maintain balance sheet strength and prudent capital management through a period of significant change, the board has resolved not to declare a final dividend in FY19.”

The report did concede that this position would be reviewed after the completion of the AMP Life sale.

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Retirees looking to move up the risk curve in a low-yielding environment are being urged to look at exchange-traded funds as a way to minimise risk.

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In a conversation with nestegg, ETF Securities CEO Kristian Walesby explained the situation many retirees are facing and how they can reduce their overall risks through diversification.

“When we look at typical SMSF as a proxy for a person coming up to a retirement or in retirement actually has, you’re going to see it loaded up with five or six top 20 companies,” Mr Walesby said.

The ETF provider explained that if investors only have a narrow pool of shares in similar sectors, they are facing higher levels of risks then required.

“If they only have six or seven companies and two are banks, you can have a situation where those banks are not doing what they used to do and are not able to pay the same yields,” Mr Walesby said.

The ETF provider believes a low-risk ETF product can help provide balanced growth with less risks for older Australians in a couple of trades. 

“You only need two or three of them and they should have a good profile in combination in lower risk through lower-risk classes,” Mr Walesby said.

Mr Walesby also highlighted the need for providers to educate older Australians to ensure they are making informed decisions. 

“One of the biggest things we are trying to talk to retirees about, the dangers they have in their SMSF if they got just say five or 10 stocks, if three or four go down heavily, the dramatic change it has on their futures.”

“Whereas if they flip them out to an ETF, they still have a probability of downfall, but it’s much more reduced,” he continued.

The fund manager suggested these older investors are being forced to enter the market due to historic low rates and need products that cater to them.

“Anyone who is near retirement age who hasn’t got a big enough nest egg, that’s a horrible situation because you’re having to take risk with your savings to try and make sure they get to whatever your target is and know you’re going to get there with no risk.”

“If you don’t invest, your money won’t grow as even inflation will erode that,” Mr Walesby concluded.

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Strong performance from the IPO market in 2019 was not enough to bring companies or investors to the party, with the number of options for investors falling to a four-year low, suggests an industry expert.

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HLB Mann Judd partner Marcus Ohm explained why, following a number of high-profile failures to float, it is not all doom and gloom for investors.

The small-cap investor noted that while the year was notable for the number of IPOs that were shelved or withdrawn, those that did list performed well.

“The pulled float by Latitude Financial, and others including Retail Zoo and Onsite Rental Group, highlighted some of the challenges of going public, but overall in 2019, new entrants performed well, particularly compared to the previous year,” Mr Ohm said.

“The average year end gain across all companies was 34 per cent, and the average first-day gain was 24 per cent.

“On average, new floats outperformed the market generally, with the All Ordinaries increasing [by] 19 per cent in value over the year.

“The small cap segment performed particularly well, recording average increases of 47 per cent compared to initial listing price.”

Mr Ohm believes Australian investors are looking for quality, with talk of the small cap model being broken an “extreme view”.

He explained: “This comment about the small cap model being broken, it wasn’t broken in the first part of 2018 when a lot of small caps were listed, and it wasn’t broken the year before.

“People are just looking for return elsewhere; people are being rational investors.”

Rather than the model itself being broken, the investor believes Australian investors are sophisticated, with IPOs needing to show value to investors.

“There seems to be less appetite to put money into speculative investments,” Mr Ohm said.

Mr Ohm believes there are a number of factors making markets “jittery” at the moment, including high valuations, geopolitical issues and even the coronavirus. 

Looking ahead to 2020, Mr Ohm suggests the IPO market is set for a subdued start to the year.

“Only 13 companies had applied for listing to the ASX at the start of 2020, down from 17 the year before, and significantly down from 37 at the start of 2018,” Mr Ohm said.

“Materials stocks make up the majority of the proposed listings, with six listings, and it will be interesting to see how this sector performs in 2020, considering its muted performance in 2019.

“It is also noteworthy that there are no proposed IPOs of any significant size. Overall, the pipeline is soft and reflects the challenging conditions in the IPO market at present.”

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