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Sharesight20 March top 20 trades on ASX & NZX

by David Olsen | Mar 26th 2018

Welcome to the March 2018 edition of the Sharesight20 monthly trading snapshot, where we look at the top 20 trades on both the ASX and NZX markets.

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How to calculate your 2018 FIF income

by Angela Thompson | Mar 26th 2018

Sharesight's comprehensive FIF Report automatically calculates your 2017-2018 FIF income, which you can use for your New Zealand IRD tax return.

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Sharesight portfolio sharing now on all plans (even free!)

by David Olsen | Mar 21st 2018

Given its popularity among investors on Sharesight premium plans, we have made portfolio sharing available to everyone -- including free Sharesight accounts.

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3 ways Sharesight's professional plan simplifies NZ tax returns

by Josh Rodrigues | Mar 19th 2018

Here are 3 ways you can get a head-start on preparing your clients’ tax returns with Sharesight Pro, before they even make an appointment to see you!

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2018 Sharesight stock picking competition — March update

by David Olsen | Mar 13th 2018

We’re approaching the end of the first quarter in 2018 for our stock picking competition. So after three months, which stocks are in the lead?

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What’s better: Dollar-cost averaging or lump-sum investing?

by Emily Grunberg | Mar 5th 2018

I wanted to know if dollar cost averaging worked, so I turned to Sharesight to test this given its ASX historical prices go back 20 years. Here's what I found.

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Sharesight20 February top 20 trades on ASX & NZX

by David Olsen | Feb 26th 2018

Welcome to the February 2018 edition of the Sharesight20 trading snapshot, where we look at the top 20 trades on the ASX and NZX by the Sharesight userbase.

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Track foreign currency on Sharesight

by David Olsen | Feb 22nd 2018

Investors can now track foreign currency holdings as an FX currency account in their Sharesight portfolio, with prices updated every 5 minutes.

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Intraday foreign exchange rates now on Sharesight

by David Olsen | Feb 22nd 2018

Sharesight clients now have the benefit of foreign exchange (forex) data being updated every 5 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Sharesight now has an Amazon Alexa Skill

by David Olsen | Feb 13th 2018

For anyone with an Amazon Echo, you can now ask Alexa how your share portfolio is performing by adding the Sharesight Alexa Skill.

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Q&A with Sharesight Alexa Skill developer — Russell Dear

by David Olsen | Feb 13th 2018

Recently a Senior Developer at Xero reached out to us in a personal capacity to ask whether he could develop an Amazon Alexa Skill for Sharesight using our API.

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Sharesight nominated for Investment Innovator of 2018

by Doug Morris | Feb 11th 2018

We are pleased to announce that we have been nominated as the Investment Innovator of the Year 2018 by Fintech Business!