Active Income Portfolio
For those seeking a sustainable income strategy, with a difference.
About the Active Income Portfolio
Our philosophy at Market Matters has always been around active management, and our income portfolio stays true to label. Combining an active approach to income producing equities, ETFs and listed Income Securities such as Hybrids, the portfolio will satisfy those looking for sustainable income with significantly less volatility than the market.
| Portfolio | 1M | 6M | 1y | 3y | 5y pa | ITD pa | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACTIVE INCOME | 0.81% | 3.94% | 9.09% | 11.58% | 9.76% | 9.67% | 132.80% |
| RBA CASH RATE +4% | 0.70% | 4.11% | 7.94% | 7.84% | 6.79% | 5.61% | 64.8% |
| VALUE ADD | +0.11% | (0.74%) | +1.15% | +3.74% | +2.97% | +4.06% | +68.00% |
| CODE | NAME | WEIGHT (%) | RISK | TERM | BUY DATE | BUY PRICE ($) | LAST PRICE ($) | DIVIDENDS ($) | DAILY CHANGE (%) | GAIN / LOSS (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGL | AGL Energy | 4 | Moderate | Long | 23/02/2023 | 7.50 | 8.32 | 1.50 | 2.59 | 30.93 |
| AMC | Amcor | 4 | Moderate | Medium | 27/10/2025 | 62.70 | 59.81 | 1.84 | -0.80 | -1.67 |
| ANZ | ANZ Group | 5 | Moderate | Medium | 18/12/2024 | 29.36 | 37.86 | 3.26 | 0.56 | 40.05 |
| AN3PI | ANZ Capital Notes 6 | 6 | Low | Long | 8/07/2021 | 100.33 | 101.70 | 27.86 | -0.04 | 29.13 |
| APA | APA Group | 5 | Moderate | Medium | 26/05/2023 | 9.82 | 10.61 | 1.44 | -0.09 | 22.71 |
| BHP | BHP Group | 8 | Moderate | Long | 11/12/2019 | 40.38 | 62.86 | 19.39 | 1.57 | 103.69 |
| CLW | Charter Hall Long Wale REIT | 4 | Moderate | Long | 06/05/2026 | 3.55 | 3.20 | .12 | 2.56 | -6.48 |
| DBI | Dalrymple Bay Infrastructure | 4 | Moderate | Medium | 10/10/2024 | 3.37 | 5.43 | 0.46 | 1.88 | 74.78 |
| DN1 | Dominion Income Trust 1 | 5 | Low | Medium | 18/06/2025 | 101.40 | 97.04 | 8.62 | 0.00 | 4.20 |
| FMG | Fortescue Metals | 4 | Moderate | Medium | 27/06/2024 | 21.62 | 16.41 | 3.20 | 1.36 | -9.30 |
| GQG | GQG Partners | 3 | Moderate | Medium | 08/08/2025 | 1.75 | 1.10 | 0.18 | 0.46 | -26.86 |
| MGR | Mirvac | 5 | Moderate | Medium | 10/03/2026 | 1.85 | 1.79 | 0.05 | 1.42 | -0.54 |
| MTS | Metcash | 4 | Moderate | Medium | 9/12/2020 | 3.50 | 3.01 | 1.41 | 4.88 | 26.29 |
| NABPI | NAB Capital Notes 6 | 5 | Low | Long | 13/07/2022 | 98.94 | 104.15 | 30.33 | -0.05 | 35.92 |
| NHC | New Hope Coal | 4 | High | Medium | 22/11/2022 | 5.55 | 5.90 | 2.40 | 1.37 | 49.55 |
| PCI | Perpetual Credit Income Trust | 5 | Low | Long | 17/07/2024 | 1.11 | 1.07 | 0.15 | -0.47 | 9.91 |
| WBC | Westpac | 5 | Moderate | Medium | 04/09/2026 | 35.01 | 34.66 | 0.64 | -1.00 | |
| SOL | Soul Pattinson (W.H) | 4 | Moderate | Long | 05/02/2026 | 37.68 | 45.66 | 0.68 | 0.59 | 22.98 |
| SUN | Suncorp Group | 5 | Moderate | Medium | 11/12/2025 | 17.07 | 18.59 | 1.00 | 2.42 | 14.76 |
| SUNPI | Suncorp Hybrid | 5 | Low | Medium | 09/04/2024 | 101.51 | 101.95 | 7.78 | 0.22 | 8.10 |
| WBCPK | Westpac Hybrid | 5 | Low | Long | 7/09/2022 | 100.40 | 103.41 | 27.92 | -0.20 | 30.81 |
| Company code | STOCK NAME | ACTIVITY | RISK | TIME HORIZON | EXIT DATE | ENTRY PRICE ($) | CLOSE PRICE ($) | DIVIDENDS ($) | GAIN / LOSS (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JBH | JB Hi-Fi | Sold 4% position | Moderate | Medium | 18/08/2026 | 83.98 | 72.26 | 3 | -10.4 |
| CNI | Centuria Capital Group | Sold 4% position | Moderate | Medium | 06/05/2026 | 2.06 | 1.69 | 0.27 | -4.9 |
| SUL | Super Retail Group | Sold 4% position | Moderate | Medium | 26/02/2026 | 13.97 | 14.01 | 2.61 | 19 |
| DDR | Dicker Data | Sold 3% position | High | Medium | 21/01/2026 | 8.28 | 10.04 | 0.15 | 23.1 |
| SIQ | Smart Group | Sold 4% position | Moderate | Medium | 21/01/2026 | 7.65 | 8.75 | 0.25 | 17.6 |
| NSR | National Storage | Sold 5% position | Moderate | Long | 11/12/2025 | 2.28 | 2.79 | 0.11 | 27.2 |
| HLI | Helia Group | Sold 2.5% position | High | Medium | 27/10/2025 | 4.46 | 5.66 | 0.5 | 38.12 |
| MFG | Magellan Financial Group | Sold 4% position | High | Medium | 04/08/2025 | 8.17 | 10.34 | 26.56 | |
| MTS | Metcash | Trimmed 1% | Moderate | Medium | 03/07/2025 | 3.5 | 4 | 1.27 | 50.57 |
| CBA | Commonwealth Bank | Sold 5% position | Moderate | Medium | 03/07/2025 | 61.33 | 180.26 | 32.4 | 246.75 |
| TLS | Telstra Corp Ltd | Sold 5% position | Moderate | Medium | 18/04/2025 | 3.43 | 4.9 | 1.07 | 74.05 |
| CBAPG | Commonwealth Bank | Redeemed 5% position | Low | Long | 15/04/2025 | 100 | 100 | 41.26 | 41.26 |
| SIQ | Smart Group | Sold 4% position | Moderate | Medium | 19/02/2025 | 8.96 | 7.81 | 0.25 | -10.04 |
| CBA | Commonwealth Bank | Trimmed 1% | Moderate | Medium | 18/12/2024 | 61.33 | 159.96 | 28.19 | 206.77 |
| MFG | Magellan Financial Group | Sold 4% position | Moderate | Medium | 06/12/2024 | 9.42 | 11.22 | 0.43 | 23.67 |
| NAB | National Australia Bank | Sold 7% position | Moderate | Medium | 08/05/2024 | 29.64 | 35.06 | 2.39 | 26.35 |
| OZBD | Composite Bond ETF | Sold 5% position | Low | Long | 17/07/2024 | 45.28 | 44.04 | 3.07 | 4.04 |
| GSBG25 | Govt Bond | Sold 6% position | Low | Medium | 27/06/2024 | 100.54 | 99.8 | 5.41 | 4.64 |
| DXS | Dexus | Sold 4% position | Moderate | Medium | 16/05/2024 | 8.02 | 7.26 | 0.56 | -2.49 |
| NABPF | NAB Hybrid | Sold 5% position | Low | Long | 7/05/2024 | 100 | 106.46 | 27.61 | 34.07 |
| ORA | Orora | Sold 4% position | Moderate | Medium | 3/04/2024 | 2.56 | 2.24 | 0.05 | -10.55 |
| MFG | Magellan Financial Group | Sold 4% position | High | Medium | 08/01/2024 | 8.73 | 9.09 | 0.93 | 14.78 |
| WES | Wesfarmers Ltd | Sold 4% position | Moderate | Long | 16/11/2023 | 47.85 | 53.94 | 4.16 | 21.42 |
| GEM | G8 Education | Sold 3% position | Moderate | Medium | 22/08/2023 | 1.29 | 1.08 | 0.06 | -11.63 |
| PPT | Perpetual | Sold 4% position | Moderate | Medium | 27/06/2023 | 24.7 | 25.4 | 2.83 | |
| MXT | MCP Master Income Trust | Sold 5% position | Low | Long | 15/06/2023 | 2 | 1.91 | 0.49 | 20 |
| AGL | AGL Energy | Trimmed 1% | Moderate | Medium | 21/04/2023 | 6.95 | 8.59 | 23.6 | |
| TLS | Telstra Corp Ltd | Trimmed 2% | Moderate | Medium | 21/04/2023 | 3.43 | 4.27 | 0.3 | 33.24 |
| WES | Wesfarmers Ltd | Trimmed 2% | Moderate | Medium | 21/04/2023 | 47.85 | 52.01 | 2.69 | 14.32 |
| SGP | Stockland | Sold 4% position | Moderate | Medium | 08/02/2023 | 4.18 | 4.01 | 0.26 | 0.22 |
| PDL | Pendal Group | Sold 4% position | Moderate | Medium | 12/01/2023 | 4.2 | 3.61 | 1.67 | 25.71 |
| BHP | BHP Group | Trimmed 2% | Moderate | Long | 08/12/2022 | 38.56 | 46.42 | 10.16 | 46.73 |
| AGL | AGL Energy | Sold 3% position | Moderate | Medium | 08/12/2022 | 6.83 | 8.07 | 18.15 | |
| APA | APA Group | Sold 4% position | Moderate | Medium | 08/12/2022 | 9.75 | 11.03 | 13.12 | |
| SSM | Service Stream | Sold 4% position | High | Medium | 22/11/2022 | 1.565 | 0.745 | 0.05 | -49.2 |
| BOQ | Bank of QLD | Sold 6% position | Moderate | Medium | 17/08/2022 | 8.7 | 7.37 | 0.31 | -11.72 |
| APA | APA Group | Sold 4% position | Low | Medium | 10/08/2022 | 8.59 | 12.14 | 0.53 | 47.5 |
| CWNHB | Crown Resorts Hybrid | Sold 4% position | Moderate | Medium | 29/07/2022 | 98.26 | 102.75 | 3.02 | 7.64 |
| IFL | Inisgnia Financial | Sold 5% position | Moderate | Medium | 13/07/2022 | 3.59 | 2.73 | 0.4 | -12.81 |
| MFG | Magellan Financial Group | Sold 3% position | Moderate | Medium | 13/07/2022 | 33.85 | 12.15 | 1.57 | -59.47 |
| SIQ | Smart Group | Sold 5% position | Moderate | Medium | 13/07/2022 | 6.98 | 6.62 | 1.43 | 15.19 |
| WDS | Woodside | Sold 1% position | High | Medium | 15/06/2022 | 29.76 | 32.54 | 2.3 | 17.05 |
| IGL | IVE Group Ltd | Sold 3% position | Moderate | Medium | 11/05/2022 | 2.28 | 1.8 | 0.66 | 7.89 |
| AGL | AGL Energy | Sold 3% position | Moderate | Long | 03/05/2022 | 5.35 | 8.38 | 0.16 | 59.63 |
| NSR | National Storage REIT | Sold 4% position | Moderate | Medium | 13/04/2022 | 2.04 | 2.65 | 0.09 | 34.31 |
| XARO | ActiveX Ardea Real Outcome Bon | Sold 5% position | Low | Long | 13/04/2022 | 26.47 | 25.28 | 1.6 | 1.55 |
| AWC | Alumina Ltd | Sold 4% position | Moderate | Medium | 24/02/2022 | 2.2 | 1.95 | -11.36 | |
| DXS | Dexus | Sold 4% position | Low | Long | 25/11/2021 | 9.2 | 11.27 | 0.23 | 25 |
Recent Opinion for the Income Portfolio
Portfolio Amendment – Active Growth Portfolio
We are increasing our weighting in MGR from 4% to 5% into market weakness. Read moreMirvac Group (ASX: MGR) $1.85
MM has held MGR since March having bought, sold and re-bought the property developer, owner, and investment manager reasonably successfully over the last few years. We liked Mirvac’s FY26 result covered here, which pointed to FY27 being another year of earnings growth despite a still-challenging property backdrop, plus, the company sweetened the result with a new A$200m buyback - the stock popped ~7% on the day demonstrating it wasn’t just MM that thought it was a solid result. Read moreWashington H Soul Pattinson (ASX: SOL) $48.33
SOL +6.2% Produced a solid FY26 result as profits jumped, though headline A$2.19bn number tells only part of the story, with a large chunk coming from the Brickworks merger and other non-recurring items. Read moreBHP Group (ASX: BHP) $61.22
Copper (Cu) enjoyed a strong session overnight with the December Comex contract gaining +2.1%, taking it within 1% of its August high. The move extended copper's winning streak to six consecutive sessions, its longest run of gains in four months, driven primarily by tightening physical supply in China, amplified by pre-holiday demand, combined with positive macro sentiment from the China-US summit outlook and a weaker dollar. Read moreMetcash Ltd (ASX: MTS) $2.83
Metcash delivered its FY26 result in June here, with the standout read being earnings had stabilised, but growth was hard to come by - echoes of Coles. Metcash (MTS) is trading on just 12.1x forward earnings, roughly half the multiple of Coles and Woolworths, while early FY27 sales growth has remained positive across Food, Liquor and Hardware. Read moreWestpac Banking Corp (ASX: WBC) $34.83
We covered WBC’s disappointing August 3Q26 trading update here, and the stock has underperformed its peers since, as is generally the case in the current market. Read moreNew Hope Corporation (ASX: NHC) $6.47
New Hope’s FY26 result released yesterday was broadly in line at the earnings level, but the more important story is the setup into FY27. Earnings fell sharply as realised coal prices declined and costs rose through the New Acland ramp-up, but production increased, the balance sheet strengthened and coal prices have already rebounded materially since year-end. Read moreCenturia Capital (ASX: CNI) $1.305
Centuria (CNI) has been under significant pressure in recent months, with the shares now trading around half their 12-month high. While the FY26 result itself was respectable, the market is increasingly focused on private credit, and specifically Centuria Bass’ exposure to the troubled Bathla Group. Read morePortfolio Amendment – Active Growth Portfolio
Following BHP’s strong run and our recent addition to other resource holdings (S32 & PLS), we’re taking some profits, reducing the position back to an 8% portfolio weight. We are still retaining a meaningful holding given our continued positive view on the company, and the outlook for commodities, particularly copper. Read moreHistory of Actions for the Income Portfolio
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