{"id":929865,"date":"2026-10-16T04:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929865\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T04:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:52:12","slug":"2026-asx-australia-investor-study-how-everyday-australians-are-building-portfolios-trading-stocks-and-choosing-etfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929865\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 ASX Australia Investor Study: How everyday Australians are building portfolios, trading stocks and choosing ETFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 16, 2026 \u2013 1.56pm<\/p>\n<p>The growing army of retail investors in Australia has settled on a winning portfolio formula: a core of exchange-traded funds supplemented by direct shares in areas where they believe they can generate outsized returns.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond this core-and-satellite portfolio structure, they share other defining traits, according to two reports released this week. They buy market dips rather than panic, they prioritise reliable income through dividends and yield-focused funds, and they avoid over-trading.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 16, 2026 \u2013 1.56pm The growing army of retail investors in Australia has settled on a winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-929865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}