If you’re searching for value in the Australian market, it may be worth taking a look at Seven Group Holdings (ASX:SVW). With a stable of businesses leveraged to mining, infrastructure and energy investment, we think the company will continue to provide robust returns for some time to come.

  In this week’s video insight Joseph takes a look at the outlook for the two major miners, BHP and Rio Tinto. Generally speaking 2019 was a positive year for the miners, BHP posted a total return of 25 per cent, while Rio Tinto’s performance was even more impressive with a total return of 41 per cent.

Rallying markets have raised the valuations of many businesses, possibly to unsustainable levels. To my mind, it’s made one thing clearer than ever: investors need to bulk up on high quality Australian and global businesses, like CSL, Microsoft and Vivendi. I recently talked about the gravitational force exerted on asset prices and values by interest rates.

Equity markets have been very kind to investors in recent years, with stock indices setting new records in Australia and overseas. Notwithstanding some episodes of turbulence along the way, these good results continue a decade-long run of mainly positive returns following the depths of the GFC in early 2009.