Minkabu powered platform “sharewise” celebrates its relaunch

Going global: with a new look and feel, lots of new features and a better user experience.

Dear Sir or Madam,

Munich 9th July, 2015: Today, sharewise GmbH (“sharewise”) and Minkabu Inc. (“Minkabu”) announce the relaunch of the social financial information media, sharewise.com which hosts a financial community for private investors. The new platform is the result of sharewise working together with Minkabu, the biggest Japanese financial social media operator, to provide the first global financial community for private investors. This service is initially offered in 3 languages, and covers more than 20 stock markets worldwide, with plans of expanding even further in the near future. This follows the aim to create a vibrant global community that connects private investors around the globe and gives them local knowledge of foreign markets.

On the importance of this project, sharewise’s Managing Director, Stefan Nothegger said, “we will provide the first financial portal/social media that offers private investors clear information to decide on whether they should buy, sell or hold a stock. Investors using the new platform will be able to see the whole picture regarding a stock: the analysts’ opinions, fundamental analysis and the crowd consensus; all translated into simple conclusions. This way they can make informed decisions, being sure that they have studied the stock’s potential from all angles”.

sharewise.com’s new key features include the following:

• Automatically generated fundamental analysis for most stocks on the market.
• Crowd consensus feature, which gathers all predictions by sharewise users worldwide for a particular stock, and provides access to the wisdom of the crowd.
• Analysts consensus for earnings projections and ratings on a global scale.
• Comparison analysis, in which the top 3 companies are automatically chosen in the respective industry on both a domestic and global level. Users can personalize this analysis by choosing the stocks they want to compare.
• Personalized dashboard space which offers users a place to follow their own investments by creating virtual portfolios and keep an eye on the market by creating watch lists. Private investors can relax and be sure never to miss anything important again, by setting up alerts and notifications on their stocks of interest.
• A clear and simple interface to improve the user experience. Making it easier for new users to get engaged, even if they are beginners in the investment world.
• Native app for iOS which will be released shortly, in which users will enjoy the sharewise experience on the go. With the app sharewise and Minkabu push their concept up a notch, by providing the users with the possibility to ask the personal assistant Sarah, who is voice activated, questions about the market’s current state and receive detailed answers.

For more information please contact: contact@minkabu.co.jp or maria.vivas@sharewise.com
SOURCE Minkabu, Inc. and Sharewise GmbH

About sharewise GmbH: sharewise is an online financial portal founded in 2007 and based in Munich, Germany. The company provides an online platform where private investors are part of a community and share financial knowledge. Since 2013 sharewise is a part of Minkabu group, as a strategic service to expand Minkabu’s business globally.

About Minkabu Inc: http://minkabu.co.jp/ : Minkabu was established on July 7th, 2006, with the aim of collecting the information possessed by individuals and utilizing it for the crowd. The company provides total financial information services with "minkabu.jp", "Kabutan.jp" and "Kabukei Daily Press", including FX, CFD, commodity futures, etc… In 2012, the company entered the business of financial and economic news distribution and IR support. Since 2013, Minkabull Trade Partners, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary, provides investment advisory services (http://minkabull.jp/). In addition, the company acquired Inter Structure Inc. (https://www.inters.co.jp/) as a subsidiary in August 2014, to enter into the financial information solutions sector with the group's business domain expansion. Also in 2012, the group entered the Chinese market with the launch of “Caiku” (http://www.caiku.com/) for which Minkabu established a software development center in Wuhan, China. The company further expanded its global business with the acquisition of sharewise GmbH (http://www.de.sharewise.com/) in 2013 which operates in Europe.

sharewise GmbH
Altheimer Eck 6
80331 München
Tel.: +49-89-9213100-50
Fax: +49-89-9213100-79
presse@sharewise.com

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