The new Lunar Year 2020 is the Year of the Rat. In this article, we look at what investors should expect in Australia’s equity market in the course of this auspicious year.

The thing about bear markets is that they sometimes seem to come out of the blue unless you’re watching out for them. The Crash of 1987 happened without warning – or so it seemed to many- and so did the Tech Wreck of 2000 and the Global Financial crisis of 2008. So, in order to assist the thinking of the prudent, herewith follows some advice regarding what stocks could go wrong, or even badly wrong, in 2020.