How global markets are impacting your superannuation and retirement (Video)
Over the past few weeks global financial markets have been focused on President Trump’s tariff measures which have proven to be more severe than markets anticipated.
Main messages
- Market volatility can feel unsettling - but it’s important to remember that ups and downs are part of investing.
- Every crisis, market downturn, recession etc comes to an end.
- These events are part and parcel of any long-term investment journey and superannuation is the longest term investment any of us are likely to have.
- If you are already in a more conservative investment option or in our lifecycle default option and are approaching retirement, your investment strategy already has a lower exposure to share markets.
- If you are concerned about the impact of market volatility, please seek financial advice before making any change.
- History has long told us that selling growth assets such as shares AFTER markets have fallen locks in losses and doesn’t allow members to benefit from the (inevitable) market recovery.
- Markets tend to react sharply to bad news and within our diversified multi-sector options, our investment team has been taking advantage of opportunities to buy quality assets at discounted prices.
VIDEO: In this episode of Super Insider, we explain what’s going on and make sense of how current events may impact your retirement savings (spoiler alert: not as much as you might think). Hear from our experts ART's Chief Economist, Brian Parker, Senior Education Manager, Joshua van Gestel, and host Anne Fuchs.