Feature List
(See Also: Version Comparison Table)
Investment Records Management
Record your transaction history for an unlimited number of investments
and portfolios. Track stocks, mutual funds, options, bonds, cash,
and a wide variety of other investment types. Keep track of your purchases, redemptions, distributions,
transfers, as
well as advanced transactions, such as splits, re-combinations, mergers,
and spin-offs. Supports both long and short positions.
Transactions can be
retrieved directly from your broker or mutual fund company, imported
from a wide variety of formats,
or entered manually.
Hierarchical Portfolios
Track an unlimited number of portfolios. Portfolios can contain an
unlimited number of hierarchical sub-portfolios. Display
graphs/reports on any sub-portfolio. Sub-portfolios
are useful for organizing your investments into specific accounts,
or for investment advisors tracking investments for multiple
clients. For organizing your sub-portfolios use the
Portfolio Editor.
See the video
tutorial on using sub-portfolios and/or tutorial on using the Portfolio Editor.
Automated Price Updates
Retrieve daily and historical prices from the
internet.
Retrieve Transactions Directly from your Broker or Fund Company
Retrieving transactions makes keeping your records updated easy.
Learn more here.
Graphing
Extensive graph options allow you to view your investments and
portfolios in a variety of ways. Compare performance and gain
insight into your positions. Choose from 48 customizable
graph types displayed in the
Graphs window. See
screen shots of graphs or the
graphs tutorial.
Reports
Choose from any of the 21 available report
types, including a "Custom" report that offers over 250 available
fields to choose from. Reports are very flexible, so you can get
the exact format you need. Choose how to sub-total reports, what
you list by, and control the content with a wide variety of filters. See
Report windows, sample screen shots of
reports or the reports tutorial.
Capital Gains Reporting
Support for First In First Out (FIFO), Average, or Specific Lot
accounting methods. Capital Gain reports provide all the
information required for tax reporting. Export capital gains to
popular tax preparation software. Wash sales are
supported in the Professional and Advisor versions.
Price Alerts
Choose from a variety of price alert types, such as fixed price,
trailing stop loss, or moving average alerts. When an alert is
triggered you can be notified with a popup window, sound, or by e-mail.
Yield Calculations
True GIPS (AIMR) compliant return calculations. Multiple yield types are
available to report how well your money performed, or how well the
underlying investment performed. See
Yield Calculations in the documentation.
Markers and Trendlines
Markers can be shown on graphs for the following: Buy, Sell,
Distribution, Notes, Splits, Price Alerts, Un-Specified Lots,
Trendlines. Trendlines are a special marker type that you can draw
on any of your graphs.
Multiple Currency Support
Track investments in up to 25 different currencies. See the
tutorial on tracking investments in
different currencies.
Bond Support
Calculate accrued interest, and a variety of bond information such as
yield to maturity, current yield, annual income, next payment date and
amount, etc. The Bond Summary report summarizes all your bond
holdings and the Income Schedule report details all your upcoming
payments. See also the Income
Schedule graph.
Import Transaction History
Supports transaction data from a
wide variety of sources, including a "Generic" import, where you can
specify the format of your incoming data. Makes it easy to get
started if you're coming from another software package, such as Quicken
or Microsoft Money.
Asset Type, Investment Goal, and Sector
Allocation
Each investment can be assigned in percentages to various asset types, investment goals,
and sectors. Asset type and sector assignments can be
automatically retrieved from the internet. Graphs and reports are available for
analyzing your allocation among, and performance in, these categories.
(tutorial)
Mobile/Web Access
Optionally view your holdings using any web browser by using the
Client Portal.
(tutorial)
The following features are
available in the Professional and Advisor versions:
Technical Analysis
The technical analysis graph allows you to
display a wide variety of indicators.
Seasonality Graphs and Report
The seasonality graphs allow you to view the seasonality of your portfolios and investments.
The Seasonality report displays seasonality in a report format.
Retrieve Historical Dividend and Split Data
Retrieve past dividends and splits
on investments. Useful for when the data is not available from
your broker or fund company, or when you're investigating investments
you may not own.
Trailing Stop Loss Alerts
An alert type useful for limiting your down-side exposure.
Moving Average Alerts
An alert type to notify you when the price crosses a moving average.
You choose the time period for the moving average.
Wash Sale Support
Wash sales supported in capital gain
reports.
Real-Time Quotes
Supports the real-time interface of both Yahoo and Wall Street Journal quote servers.
Advanced Statistics
Alpha, Beta, Correlation, R-Squared, Standard Deviation, and Sharpe Ratio calculations for
investments, portfolios, asset types, investment types, sectors, or investment
goals.
User-Defined Report Fields
Create your own report fields by writing equations using any custom
report field with a wide variety of functions.
Risk/Reward Scatter Plots
The risk/reward scatter graph allows you to
analyze performance versus risk taken.
Correlation Matrix Report
View the relationships within each of the following groups: Asset Type,
Investment Goal, Sector, Investment Type, or Currency. See
sample report.
Create Blended/Hypothetical Investments
Powerful commands to create synthetic investments by combining other
investments. See the Create
Investment from Investments and
Create Blended Investment
commands.
The following features are
available in the Advisor version:
Client Management Support
Keep contact information for each client. Have an associated
portfolio for each client, with an easy way to switch views between
clients. Automatically customize reports with client details. See the
Using Clients
Tutorial or see the
Client List
Dialog documentation.
E-mail Graphs/Reports to Clients
Use the Send by Email command to
easily create/send any graphs and/or reports to your clients by email.
(tutorial)
Batch Printing
Automatically print a set of graphs/reports you choose for each client.
Output can be sent to the printer or image files for inclusion in other
documents. (tutorial)
Client Statement Service
Securely share statements with your clients in the
Client Portal. Integrated with
existing Batch Print and Mobile/Web Access features, so clients can see
their current holdings, and statements through the Client Portal.
Manage statements via the Advisor Portal. (tutorial)
Import from A Wide Variety of Broker Dealers
Built-in support for importing pricing, securities, transactions, and
positions from BrokersXpress, DAZL, DST FAN Mail, Fidelity, FOLIOfn, Interactive Brokers, Pershing, Rydex, Schwab, Scottrade, Southwest Securities, TD Ameritrade,
or TIAA-CREF.
Graph/Report Publishing Support
Graphs and Reports can be copied to the
clipboard, and pasted into other applications for preparing client
reports. Images can be resized to any desired size, while
maintaining their quality.
Report Disclaimers
Customizable disclaimer is
displayed at the bottom of each report. You specify the text and
font.
Report Logo
Display your own custom logo on reports.
Management Fees
Define your own method for calculating management fees for each client.
Management Fee report to display fee calculation details. See
sample report.
Executive Summary Report
High level overview of account, and comparison with indices of your
choice. Ideal for sharing with clients. See
sample report.
Invoice Report
Cover letter for client reports, including optional fee breakout.
Customize message with any text you want, and optionally insert account
specific information. See sample
report.
Unlimited Investments And Portfolios
You can track an unlimited number of investments and portfolios.
In the Personal version, you can have up to 500 investments in any one
portfolio. In the Professional version, you can have up to 5,000
investments in a single portfolio. In the Advisor version, you can
have up to 50,000 investments in any one portfolio.
To see screen shots visit
the graph and report
screen shot pages. To get started using the program, watch the
getting started tutorial.
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