This retiree expects a market ‘bloodbath’. Here’s what will help

Jo White, 64, refuses to look at her super balance given what’s happened in financial markets over the past few days. These wealth experts lay out a game plan.

Joanna MatherWealth editor

Apr 6, 2025 – 4.00pm

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Jo White, 64, refuses to look at her superannuation balance given what’s happened in financial markets over the past few days.

“I have no intention of looking at it in the short to medium term because I know I will be deflated,” she says. And she knows things are about to get worse. “Monday will be a bloodbath once our exchange opens,” she says.

Joanna Mather joined the AFR as an education reporter in 2008. She spent four years in the Canberra press gallery before becoming superannuation reporter in 2016, deputy news director in 2021 and wealth editor in 2023.