Stocks that lead the field
Money Magazine Australia|February 2020
According to the Chinese zodiac, 2020 is the Year of the Rat – a clever, quick-thinking creature seen as a sign of wealth, surplus and often creating success.
JESSICA AMIR
Stocks that lead the field

Before exploring how to sniff out returns, let’s take a lead from this resourceful animal’s attitude to analyse the emerging macro economic themes, sectors and stocks that have the best potential of outperforming in 2020 and beyond. (See “How they were chosen”, page 44).

We know interest rates globally are at record lows, depressing returns of fixed-income assets while also driving up asset prices and pushing equities to all-time highs, as investors are forced to take on more risk to achieve higher returns. You may have read a lot about “lower for longer” with respect to interest rates. And while this is traditionally good for economies and for households, at present it is pointing to an expectation of lower economic growth globally for the short to medium term.

Lower rates are being used by most central banks to encourage business investment and consumer spending to grow their economies. As a result, fixed-income investments will remain suppressed and asset prices are expected to further rise. However, with rates already at such low levels, central banks are running out of ammunition, raising the need for a new approach to boost growth.

Australia’s lead indicator for economic growth, real gross domestic product (GPD), trickled lower, to 2.25% in the 2020 financial year, from the estimated 2.75%.

The mid-year economic and fiscal outlook (MYEFO) released on December 16 highlighted that economic growth should claw back up to 2.75% in 2020 and 3% annually by 2021-22, as the federal government ramps up its infrastructure spending. We also know the government is bringing forward $4.2 billion in infrastructure spending, with total transport infrastructure investment standing at more than $100 billion over 10 years. This will benefit companies operating in or exposed to the infrastructure sector.

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