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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!

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Sharesight adds 17,000 OTC equities and NYSE American market

by David Olsen | Feb 9th 2018

Sharesight now tracks more than 17,000 Over-The-Counter (OTC) equities and the third largest stock exchange in the USA - the NYSE American market (AMEX).

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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.

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Sharesight20 January top 20 trades on ASX & NZX

by David Olsen | Jan 29th 2018

In this Sharesight20 we look at the top 20 trades on both the ASX and NZX markets among the Sharesight userbase during January and look at the reasons why.

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2018 Sharesight stock picking competition

by David Olsen | Jan 28th 2018

Today we are launching the new and improved 2018 Sharesight stock picking competition - which you can track using Sharesight's public portfolio.

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What ASX moving to blockchain SHOULD mean for investors

by Doug Morris | Jan 22nd 2018

Everyone from fintech companies, to brokers, mobile apps, lenders and financial advice professionals would benefit from equal access to ASX's CHESS replacement.