Dear %%first_name%%,

Many market commentators fervently try to identify when this long bull market will end. As Charlie Aitken stresses in his article today, trying to time a downturn is essentially a futile exercise and the temptation to look at daily, weekly or monthly performance can be a guaranteed way to make poor investment decisions. Charlie explains the steps and actions he takes to address perceived risks and take advantage of any short-term volatility.

As James Dunn says in his article today, the search for yield can identify some attractive alternative situations, where there’s potential for healthy yields and – just maybe – the bonus of share price gain. The cut and thrust of profit reporting season always throws up candidates of this kind and in his article today James looks at 4 of them.

And in Buy, Hold, Sell – What the Brokers Say, 14 ASX-listed stocks have been downgraded and 13 upgraded so far this week, with stockbrokers issuing both downgrades and upgrades for Newcrest Mining and NIB Holdings.

In Questions of the Week, Paul Rickard answers readers’ queries about share purchase plans for Transurban, AMP and the economic impact of Governments running up deficits to increase spending on infrastructure.

It was so good to meet up again with many of you who attended our Listed Investment Conference days in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane over the last few days. And thank you for buying my new book – my wrist is feeling the after effects of me signing them for you! We’ve had many requests for these events to travel to Canberra, Adelaide and Perth and we’re certainly looking into this.

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Peter Switzer