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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
The latest Sharesight update includes some improvements to both the Performance Report and the Sold Shares Report.
The Performance Report now has an option to specify whether you would like to include or exclude the imapct of sold shares in the return calculations. With the 'include sold shares' option unchecked, the ...
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
We have added a dividend reinvestment function to simplify the process of recording dividend reinvestments. The dividend reinvestment function can be enabled by clicking on the on/off toggle link under options in the share detail page sidebar.
The dividend reinvestment is enabled individually for each share holding. To record a ...
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
On 11th February 2008 I wrote blog pointing out that rather than placing funds on deposit with a major bank, investors might like to consider buying shares in the bank instead. I pointed out that over the past 10 years this would have resulted in vastly superior returns.
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
As investors in the NZ share market we should all applaud the appointment of Don Brash to head a task force to improve NZ’s productivity. If we do see an improvement, that should lead to improved share market returns and a better standard of living for all New Zealanders. Few ...
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
I was brought up in an era when life in general, and in the world of finance in particular, was a lot simpler than it is now. Borrowing money was frowned upon. You worked and if you were frugal, you might save enough to buy a few non-essentials if ...
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
I agree with Chris Worthington’s contention (Dom Post 13/12/08. Super fund has no room for nationalism) that a Government directive to the NZ Super Fund would set a dangerous precedent.
But I question almost everything else in this article. Economics was never my strong point however, so maybe ...
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
Have you noticed how America always has to be centre front on the world stage? The Iraq war did the job nicely for quite a while and just when even diehard Americans started tiring of that, they conjured up a financial crisis that started in their banking system and then ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
The Sharesight Performance report is now available to users on the Investor and Expert plans. The performance report shows similar information to the portfolio overview page, however it allows you to select both a start and end date so that you can view the performance of your portfolio over any ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
One of Sharesight’s key objectives is to show you the true return on your shares. But on Budget day we thought we should show you exactly what you are going to get from the budget.
Labour says the 3 year rolling tax cuts will cost $10.6 billion. That sounds ...
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