QAV Light Weekly Update — 31 August 2026

Hap­py Mon­day, Light Brigade!

And a big wel­come to all of our new mem­bers.

It’s the last day of the month and it’s been a strong thir­ty days for our port­fo­lios. From my quick check this morn­ing: For August, QAV Light is up 7% vs the index up 2%. Some­what sur­pris­ing­ly, we’ve had no big bad supris­es so far this report­ing sea­son. Noth­ing that required a quick sell, any­way.

Market This Week (All Ordinaries)

The All Ordi­nar­ies edged mod­est­ly high­er for the week, clos­ing around 9,294 points, with the ASX 200 post­ing a small gain of rough­ly 0.2%:

• The ASX 200 rose 54 points, or 0.6%, to close at 9,092 on Fri­day, halt­ing a two-day los­ing streak as strength in com­mer­cial ser­vices, tech, health­care, and ener­gy min­er­als lift­ed sen­ti­ment. For the week, the mar­ket was on track for a mod­est 0.2% gain, revers­ing falls in the pri­or two peri­ods.
• The week’s dom­i­nant sto­ry was July CPI data: head­line infla­tion eased to 3.5% year-on-year, down from 3.8% in June, but sur­passed the con­sen­sus fore­cast of 3.3%, while the RBA’s pre­ferred trimmed mean rose 0.5% month-on-month, its largest month­ly rise in a year, hold­ing the annu­al rate at 3.6%.
• Fol­low­ing the data release, mar­ket-implied odds for a 25 basis point RBA rate hike at the Sep­tem­ber 2026 meet­ing jumped from 17% to 27%, with an 80% prob­a­bil­i­ty priced in for a rate increase by Feb­ru­ary 2027. The RBA had held the cash rate at 4.35% at its board meet­ing ear­li­er in August.
• Traders looked ahead to next week’s key domes­tic releas­es, includ­ing Q2 GDP and July trade fig­ures, while gains were capped as US stock futures trad­ed most­ly low­er, with investors cau­tious ahead of Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s Jack­son Hole speech for sig­nals on the rate path.

All the best,
Cameron

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PORTFOLIO UPDATE

Drill down into the wid­get above to see how we are per­form­ing over dif­fer­ent time­frames, or vis­it our live port­fo­lio page.

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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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