Topic: Investing Tips

To help SMSF trustees compare their portfolios to their peers, we’ve crunched the numbers on the 20 most held shares by SMSF portfolios tracked in Sharesight.

Capital gains taxes are common globally, but Australia’s CGT is considered one of the world’s most complex, which can have significant implications at tax time.

Here’s why Sharesight is better for tracking your investment portfolio than manually entering all of your holdings, trades, and dividends in a spreadsheet.

Fully franked dividends carry tax paid on profits at the company tax rate of 30% and are highly valued by investors - here’s how to calculate franking credits.

Tax loss selling is a strategy some investors leverage during the financial year with a view to reduce their capital gains tax liabilities.

The FIF regime means you need to know which investments are considered foreign investment funds, how to calculate FIF income and how it impacts your portfolio.

Are you missing an EOFY opportunity? There’s still time to assess your investment portfolio and take advantage of the time left before June 30.

I was born just after the 1973 oil shock. A time when the country was running ‘carless days’ to deal with the very opposite problem of today.

To save enough money for a your retirement, it pays to calculate your target nest egg now to help guide how you invest to achieve your retirement income goals.

In this blog, we look at what loss aversion is, explore examples of how it manifests itself in investing and how you can protect yourself from it.

While Australian’s tend to be more internationally diversified than the average investor, only 4% of Australian paid users invest directly in Asian markets.

The last three months have been pretty kind to me. My portfolio has gained 8.8%, which is slightly better than the ASX 200 ETF that I use as a benchmark.

Essentially, companies with strong ESG profiles typically enjoy enhanced corporate performance and financial returns – so what should you look out for?

Here are a few ways to help maintain a healthy return whilst limiting the risk of your overall retirement investment portfolio.

Investing in stocks and sitting on cash might seem like mutually exclusive options, but they can actually be two sides of the same coin.

While reading is wonderful, there’s an even more efficient way to consume knowledge – podcasting. So here are 10 podcasts for investors worldwide.