QAV Light Weekly Update — 06 April 2026

Hap­py Mon­day, Light Brigade!

And a big wel­come to all of our new mem­bers.

As it’s a pub­lic hol­i­day the mar­ket won’t be open today.

Market This Week (All Ordinaries)

Despite all of the con­cerns about oil and Hor­muz and Trump’s con­tin­u­al threats (and swear­ing, that’s a new first), the Aussie mar­ket had a sur­pris­ing­ly sol­id week, climb­ing about 0.7%. Start­ed a bit wob­bly but found its legs and pushed high­er through the week. If there’s a reces­sion com­ing, the mar­ket does­n’t seem to care.

All the best,
Cameron

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PORTFOLIO UPDATE

Let’s look at how the Light port­fo­lio is doing over a range of time­frames.

All Time

Our QAV Light port­fo­lio is absolute­ly smash­ing it at 17.98% ver­sus the ASX 200’s 9.56% — we’re near­ly dou­bling the bench­mark’s per­for­mance.

Financial Year to Date

Our QAV Light port­fo­lio is sit­ting pret­ty at 23% for the finan­cial year, smash­ing the ASX 200’s measly 3% return. We’re beat­ing the bench­mark by near­ly 20 per­cent­age points — not too shab­by for a sys­tem­at­ic val­ue approach.

Last 30 Days

We’re actu­al­ly doing bet­ter than the bench­mark this month — our port­fo­lio is down about 2% while the ASX 200 has dropped around 3.6%. Not great being in the red, but at least we’re cush­ion­ing the fall bet­ter than the broad­er mar­ket.

Last 12 Months

Our QAV Light port­fo­lio is sit­ting at 32.5% for the year ver­sus the ASX 200’s 15.6% — we’re beat­ing the bench­mark by about 17 per­cent­age points, slight­ly bet­ter than dou­ble mar­ket.

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SELLS

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BUYS

As we’re ful­ly invest­ed, this week’s Buy is a “Pos­si­ble” buy for new mem­bers who are still try­ing to build their port­fo­lios. I’ll track it as usu­al and advise if it breach­es any of our sell­ing con­di­tions.

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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