Portfolio Management Software

[Wysiwyg]

Hello aussietanker, in Topshare Portfolio Manager there is a form to add dividends but not automatic i don`t think.Still it is a simple format that you can trial free to see if you like it at the link above .Here is how to handle dividends in the software ...

Use this form to record all dividend payments and DRP share issues. On the first page, first enter the Record date, then the Payment date. The ex-dividend date will be calculated and displayed. These dates are defined as follows:

Record date: the date on which the company closes its register to determine which shareholders are registered to receive the dividend.
Ex-div date: is the fourth business day before the company's Record Date. To be entitled to a dividend a shareholder must have purchased shares before the ex dividend date.
Payment date: is the date the cheque was sent to you.

Record date and Payment date will usually be specified on the dividend notification form. Often the Payment Date is a week or so after the Record Date, but sometimes companies delay payment by many months. Payment Date must be after Record Date.

Once you have recorded the two dates, select the company whose dividend you are recording (only those stocks held at the Ex-Div date shown will be available for selection). Once you have done this, your holdings will be displayed below.

The final step on this page is to fill in the amount per share for both normal and special components of the dividend; and record the franking details. Note that you can record the dividend in either cents per share or dollars per share.

When you enter the per-share dividend amount, the total amounts (unfranked amount, franked amount, net dividend, and imputation credit) will be displayed below. Be sure to check that these correspond with the details on your dividend notification. The form will now look like this:

 

[jet328]

i also read somewhere recently of a portfolio manager that was capable of automatically "entering in " all the dividends, splits etc that you should have received from the time that you bought the shares - for dummies like me that haven't kept all their paper work in order .....

I haven't heard of anything like that for portfolio software, but wonder if maybe you're thinking of that new feature the tax office has. When doing your tax return the computer will be able to find your dividends from the share registries. I really doubt software would be able to achieve this, as the software would have to access the share registries data & I just can't see that happening.

Like yourself I'm more a longer term fundamental investor and I've found Stator-lite very good. Easy to use, online price update & produces nice reports.

 

[aussietanker]

AT said ...

i am not really looking for software to manage in the sense of "day trading" .....

just something simple to record when i buy and sell shares, what quantity i hold, what dividends have been payed, how much cash is there, am i invested over several sectors etc .....

i also read somewhere recently of a portfolio manager that was capable of automatically "entering in " all the dividends, splits etc that you should have received from the time that you bought the shares - for dummies like me that haven't kept all their paper work in order .....




and it would be even better it it had some basic fundamental analysis capability that helped to identify long term "good value" shares that might be worth investing in ....

i have searched here, googled it, yahooed it ... but still can't seem to find any reference to the sofware that enters the dividend info automatically

.... an ideas anyone? ..... and any suggestions as to any portfoloi managers that include fundamental ... and perhaps very basis tech analysis ability ...

Thanks for those very helpful replies WYSIWYG and jet328 .... i will follow your suggestions and have a look at a couple of the trial versions of some of the software mentioned here inc topshare and stator ..... jet - i may be mistaken ... but i don't think it was anything to do with the ATO ... i am fairly certain that it was a PM cause i remember thinking - hey, i need that ... but didn't bookmark it thinking that it would be very easy to find when i needed it .....


and sorry to bother everyone again ....

i just have a couple more questions in regard to entering all the dividend data into whatever PM that i finally settle on for all the shares that i have held for a long time ....

i seems that i may have to enter it all manually .....

1. i managed to dig out all the old superfund reports that where done for the ATO by the accountant ... but unfortunately they don't even list the individual shares ... let alone individual dividends ... it's all lumped together .... so that wasn't a help to do it manually ...

2. i went to the ASX site and searched on individual stocks ... but it only listed the dividend paid for the last year ..... unless there is somewhere else on the site that lists it

3. i noticed that you can pay a fee to download "historical data" on various shares from some sites .... but on the sites that i looked at (one was from a post by a long term member here on another thread - i think it was "rich kid" or "tech/a" that gave the link from memory - so thanks to whichever one it was ... but i'm not sure how to post the link to the actual post or site ) ....

but i was unable to determine if the actual data included details of the actual dates and dividends per share paid .. does anyone know if i can get that info in any historic data that can be downloaded ... and if so where i can get it from at a reasonable price .....

the reason that i am so keen to include this is that leaving it out may give the PM (and hence me) a very false picture of the actual returns when comparing shares within the portfolio

regards
A|T

 

[motorway]

i also read somewhere recently of a portfolio manager that was capable of automatically "entering in " all the dividends, splits etc that you should have received from the time that you bought the shares - for dummies like me that haven't kept all their paper work in order .....

Maybe this ?

http://www.shoebox.net.au/features.php

 

[Uncle Festivus]

aussietanker, if you don't have too many stocks (more work ) I can give you the div data back to 1999

 

[aussietanker]

Motorway said .....

Maybe this ?

http://www.shoebox.net.au/features.php

BINGO! .... thats it (i think) .... thanks motorway .... i THINK thats the one that i was looking at ... i didn't realize that it was a subscription based service .... however, a thousand thank you's ... i will investigate this further ....


uncle festivus .... again, thanks so very much for your kind offer - it's a very generous offer and i might take you up on it, as there are only a handful of stocks .... i will pm you re the details

thanks to everyone for the help

regards
A|T

 

[quinn123]

Which one would you recommend?

Strator-AFM or Topshare or Manage Invest or another?

I trade shares and CFD's but I'm looking to get into property so the Manage invest option looks pretty good. Any experiences with it? Is trading management; buying/selling/stop losses/CFD's easy to use? Does it have proper money management rules like fixed percent risk etc?

Thanks

 

[CFD]

On the subject of management software, I notice ASF has a $100- discount on the purchase of Manage Invest. Offer ends 31/3.

 

[quinn123]

CFD

I went with Stator, its ability to test a trading systems performance is what I really required.

Topshare and manage invest still look like good programs, it depends what you need the software to do for you.

Cheers

Quinn.

 

[tech/a]

CFD

I went with Stator, its ability to test a trading systems performance is what I really required.

Topshare and manage invest still look like good programs, it depends what you need the software to do for you.

Cheers

Quinn.

Excellent choice.
Great guys too.

 

[CFD]

Cheers Quinn. From memory to use Stator with your cfd trading you had to purchase the most expensive module. Which is why I mention Managed Invest, along with the property and discount.

I keep putting a decision in the too hard basket.

 

[quinn123]

The standard version of stator supports CFDs.

 

[WaveSurfer]

I'm sure there at is at least one thread that has covered this;

https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5467&highlight=portfolio+manager

It has a link for "Hubb Investor" which is free and is great for paper tradind too. I have put many on to it for that exact reason, and never had bad feedback.

Good luck

Very nice find Birdster!

It's still free BTW and is perfect for paper trading. Even comes with charts and a data feed. No more hopping brokers when the demo expires, whooooohoooo!!

Thanks again mate.

 

[henry009]

If you have an iPhone, an App called AllMyShares will fulfil the requirements that you set out at the start of this thread. It's the best portfolio analysis/management iPhone App I've used (it tracks all your trades ever made). They have a webite: allmyshares.com

 

[skinner36]

Check this thread. I am starting to get rather revved up about it

https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19947

 

[vrfund]

Hi

I have been looking into some portfolio management software. I am trialling Stator AFM and finding it a bit clunky. Does anyone have any recommendation for others that work well. I have a reasonably high trading frequency so have a lot of transactions to capture.

Thanks

 

[ROE]

Hi

I have been looking into some portfolio management software. I am trialling Stator AFM and finding it a bit clunky. Does anyone have any recommendation for others that work well. I have a reasonably high trading frequency so have a lot of transactions to capture.

Thanks

Topshare.com.au

 

[Joe Blow]

Hi

I have been looking into some portfolio management software. I am trialling Stator AFM and finding it a bit clunky. Does anyone have any recommendation for others that work well. I have a reasonably high trading frequency so have a lot of transactions to capture.

Thanks

Hi vrfund, please use the forum search to find existing threads on the topic you are interested in before starting a new one. I have now merged your new thread with another one about portfolio management software.

 

[skc]

Topshare.com.au

I recently started trialling this. They offer 60-day free trial so you can give it a pretty good run. I find it to deliver pretty much 90% of what I want.... certainly capable for a relatively low turnover portfolio (say 30-50 transactions per year).

Hi

I have been looking into some portfolio management software. I am trialling Stator AFM and finding it a bit clunky. Does anyone have any recommendation for others that work well. I have a reasonably high trading frequency so have a lot of transactions to capture.

Thanks

I find Stator a bit clunky as well. It's perhaps worthwhile if you want fairly detailed analysis of various sub strategies / portfolios / more frequent trading. But for straight portfolio record purpose it almost offers too much.

I also like sharesight.com.au. It's online cloud based but you can automate (contract notes, dividends etc) a lot with it. It's free for a 10 stock portfolio.

http://www.sharesight.com.au/

 

[McLovin]

I find Stator a bit clunky as well. It's perhaps worthwhile if you want fairly detailed analysis of various sub strategies / portfolios / more frequent trading. But for straight portfolio record purpose it almost offers too much.

I also like sharesight.com.au. It's online cloud based but you can automate (contract notes, dividends etc) a lot with it. It's free for a 10 stock portfolio.

http://www.sharesight.com.au/

Do you use this, skc? I had a look at it and it doesn't seem half bad. I use Stator at the moment but I like the idea of having everything on the cloud.

The other cloud one I found is eStock, which seems to be the cloud offering of StockMaster. Has anyone here used it?

http://www.supertech.com.au/eStock.html