SHIELD - Sustainable High Yield | Growth worries to convert non-believers back to yield | We maintain our positive view that the market will recover from the...

SHIELD - Sustainable High Yield | Growth worries to convert non-believers back to yield | We maintain our positive view that the market will recover from the recent profit taking on geopolitical, currency and global growth worries. We expect domestic consumer confidence to remain low and force RBA to cut interest rates in mid-2015 after curbing house price growth. The continued global growth worries will drive the global investors back to Australian high yielding equities with currency stabilising and bond yields falling. SHIELD analysis sieves the market for the best high yield stocks with supporting mix of size, risk, quality, growth and value factors. At the end of June, we suggested to move from an overweight Financials and underweight Resources portfolio to a balanced three pillar portfolio with equal weights in Resources, Industrials and Financials. SHIELD Top 20 picks are: large cap - WBC, CBA, NAB, ANZ and BHP; mid cap - PPT; small cap - NST, IMF, WSA, GDI, ALU, ASL, MFG, DSH, PTM and SKE; and micro cap - HFA, DDR, NCK and CMG. (VIEW LINK)