Latest posts
What are short-term vs long-term capital gains?
This blog post explains the difference between short-term and long-term capital gains, and how Australian investors can use Sharesight to calculate their CGT.
What is diversification in investing?
Keep reading to learn more about the benefits of diversification, different diversification strategies and how to track your diversification with Sharesight.
What is a Listed Investment Company (LIC)?
LICs are listed investment vehicles popular with Australian investors that are both easy to access and offer a number of advantages vs other investment funds.
How to calculate a stock's dividend growth rate
To learn how the dividend growth rate is calculated, how it can be used and how Sharesight helps investors keep track of their dividends, keep reading.
What is dividend yield?
To learn more about dividend yields, the pros and cons of dividend investing and why Sharesight is the ultimate dividend tracking tool, keep reading.
What is a dividend?
This blog explains the different types of dividends, the pros and cons, the tax implications and how Sharesight helps investors keep track of their dividends.
What is a franked dividend?
This blog will explain how franked dividends work, the tax implications they have for investors, and how Sharesight can help investors track dividends.
4 ways Sharesight is better than Google Finance
Looking for a Google Finance alternative? Sharesight provides annualised performance, automatic dividends, currency impacts and advanced portfolio reporting.
How your broker’s performance numbers mislead you
This post will explain why your broker’s performance numbers are misleading, and how Sharesight provides investors with the true picture of their returns.
What is dividend harvesting (dividend capture)?
The theory behind dividend harvesting strategies is to buy shares in companies just before they pay dividends and sell them soon after. Read this to learn more.
4 reasons SMSF trustees should be tracking dividends
This blog explains why SMSF trustees need to track dividends, and how using Sharesight can help save SMSF trustees time and money running their SMSF.
The exchange traded fund (ETF) tax nightmare
ETFs create tax complications because instead of classifying them as ordinary company shares, the ATO classifies ETFs as trusts.