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Sharesight20 top 20 trades on ASX FY2017/18

by David Olsen | Jun 26th 2018

This is the first of our Sharesight20 yearly trading snapshots where we look at the top 20 trades on the ASX over the last 12 months to coincide with the EOFY.

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2018 Sharesight stock picking competition — June update

by David Olsen | Jun 19th 2018

We’re approaching the halfway point in our 2018 stock picking competition. So six months in, which stocks are in the lead?

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Offset your capital gains by tax loss selling

by Angela Thompson | Jun 12th 2018

It's useful to routinely review your portfolio and decide whether you should leverage a tax loss selling strategy to help offset any capital gains.

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Sharesight20 top 20 trades on ASX & NZX - May 2018

by David Olsen | May 30th 2018

Welcome to the May 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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Sharesight20 April top 20 trades on ASX & NZX

by David Olsen | Apr 30th 2018

Welcome to the April 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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4 reasons to stop relying on your broker’s performance reports

by Angela Thompson | Apr 23rd 2018

When you login to your broker to check your portfolio performance, do you know what those numbers really mean, and more importantly, what’s missing?

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3 ways to maximise your portfolio performance in 2018

by Angela Thompson | Mar 27th 2018

These quick-wins are guaranteed to provide you with the portfolio insights to help you make the most of your portfolio this year.

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Sharesight20 March top 20 trades on ASX & NZX

by David Olsen | Mar 27th 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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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 6th 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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Investors need to break these 5 bad habits in 2018

by Angela Thompson | Jan 30th 2018

Maximise your portfolio performance this year by ditching these small (but impactful) bad investing habits once and for all.