QAV Light Weekly Update — 08 June 2026

Hap­py Mon­day, Light Brigade!

And a big wel­come to new mem­bers.

My week­end was pret­ty lazy com­pared to our usu­al stan­dard. Only two hours of kung fu on Sat­ur­day as both Fox and Chris­sy were sport­ing minor injuries and did­n’t want to over-do it. Chris­sy and I man­aged to watch two great films over the week­end — COLOSSUS (1970), which is based on the 1966 nov­el of the same name which I recent­ly read, about an AI tak­ing over the world (pret­ty com­pelling watch­ing), and POOR THINGS (2023), the Yor­gos Lan­thi­mos film that Emma Stone won her sec­ond Oscar for. We enjoyed them both. 

I lost a close game of chess to my son Hunter over our reg­u­lar Sun­day cafe break­fast and then caught up with some friends and their kids at a park for a pic­nic lunch. 

Okay — down to busi­ness. 

Market This Week (All Ordinaries)

The ASX is closed today for King’s Birth­day, so there won’t be any trad­ing until it re-opens tomor­row. 

Look­ing at this chart, the Aussie mar­ket had a shock­er of a week — we’re look­ing at the All Ords drop­ping about 1.3% over the five days. Com­mod­i­ty prices are near­ly all down, banks were down under pres­sure from Aus­trali­a’s stagfla­tion­ary back­drop, GDP growth is slow, unem­ploy­ment is up, and trimmed mean CPI remains at 3.4%, well above the RBA’s 2–3% band. This is text­book stagfla­tion ter­ri­to­ry, which is tox­ic for equi­ties: the RBA can’t cut aggres­sive­ly with­out stok­ing infla­tion fur­ther. Stalled Per­sian Gulf peace talks added risk pre­mi­um, par­tic­u­lar­ly hit­ting ener­gy stocks. US equi­ty futures soft­ened after a sharp AI/tech sell-off on Wall Street (Nas­daq suf­fered one of its worst days of the year on 5 June), drag­ging ASX futures low­er at the open on Fri­day.

All the best,
Cameron

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PORTFOLIO UPDATE

All Time

We’re still absolute­ly smash­ing the ASX 200 bench­mark — our QAV Light port­fo­lio is sit­ting pret­ty at +19.53% p.a. CAGR while the SPDR 200 is only at +9.68%. That’s near­ly dou­ble the per­for­mance of the index, which is exact­ly what we want to see from our sys­tem­at­ic approach.

Financial Year to Date

We’re also absolute­ly smash­ing the ASX 200 for the finan­cial year — our port­fo­lio is sit­ting pret­ty at +29.29% while the bench­mark is only up about 4.93%.

Last 30 Days

Our QAV Light port­fo­lio fin­ished up 1.24% for the month while the ASX 200 was down 1.18%, so we beat the bench­mark by about 2.4%. Pret­ty decent result — we stayed in the green while the broad­er mar­ket had a bit of a wob­ble.

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SELLS

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BUYS

And here’s my TikTok of the week.

CURRENT HOLDINGS & HISTORICAL TRADES

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** Please remem­ber to review our Buy­ing Guide­lines to under­stand which cap bands you should be look­ing at and oth­er impor­tant con­sid­er­a­tions.

DISCLOSURE

Please review our trad­ing and dis­clo­sure pol­i­cy.

FOR NEW MEMBERS

If you’re new to QAV Light, here’s a quick reminder on how it works.

1. We send you an email every Mon­day advis­ing which stocks we are adding to our Light port­fo­lio.
2. You can copy our trades, but please remem­ber to review our Trad­ing Guide­lines. And con­sult a finan­cial plan­ner before mak­ing any deci­sions.
3. We don’t rec­om­mend that you add stocks which are already in our port­fo­lio.
4. If one of the stocks we add breach­es one of our sell con­di­tions, we will sell it from our port­fo­lio and you’ll get an email advis­ing of the trade.
5. If you come across any QAV ter­mi­nol­o­gy that you don’t under­stand, please review our ter­mi­nol­o­gy guide or just email us for clar­i­fi­ca­tion.

That’s it for today!

If we decide to buy or sell some­thing, we’ll let you know.

Got a ques­tion?
[email protected]

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