Introduction to Accounts, Groups, Households and Clients

Learn more about the differences between accounts, Households, groups, and clients—and see some common scenarios that leverage all group types.

Common Usage Scenarios for Accounts, Groups, Clients, and Households

See four examples of how accounts, groups, clients, and Households can combine to handle different real-life financial scenarios.

Learn More About Accounts

Accounts refers to the financial account, such as John Abbey's IRA. Accounts are imported into Tamarac Reporting from your portfolio accounting system. An account should be included in the appropriate Household, billing, rebalancing, and groups in order to leverage Tamarac's full suite of features.

Learn More About Sleeve Accounts and Groups

Sleeve accounts and groups allow you to report performance, holdings, and transactions for individual sleeves within accounts like Unified Managed Accounts.

Learn More About Linked Accounts

Use the Yodlee integration to aggregate held-away accounts to Tamarac. Learn more about types of linked aggregated accounts and how they behave in Tamarac.

Learn More About Notes

Notes in accounts allow you to add documentation about client wishes, account changes, alerts about special circumstances, and compliance issues, to accounts that can be widely seen by other users who have permission to view those accounts. can be documented in accounts using notes.

Learn More About Households

Households group accounts, groups, and clients. An easy way to think of a Household is that the clients can view all of the associated accounts and groups, and the clients generally share similar goals.

Learn More About Groups

A group is a collection of accounts. The accounts are combined to facilitate group level reporting, group level performance calculations, and/or group level rebalancing and trading. A group is a separate entity, apart from the accounts it contains. You can put as many accounts and groups in a group as you wish.

Learn More About Clients

Clients are unique contacts, based on an email address, that are used to control access to the client portal. A client doesn't necessarily have to be an investor—a client can be anyone you want to have access to a portal, such as a CPA, attorney, etc. A client can only be assigned to one Household.

Using Page Views

Learn about what custom views are and how you use them on the Accounts, Households, Client/Client Portal, and Securities pages.

Create, Edit, or Delete a Page View

Learn how to create, edit, delete, and copy custom views.

The Select All Check Box

Learn how to select, clear, and view the selection for some or all of the records.

Custom Fields for Accounts, Groups, Households, and Securities

Is there information you want to track in Tamarac, but there's no existing field for that information? For example, maybe you want to track your client classification (bronze, gold and platinum). You can create custom fields for accounts, reporting groups, Households, and securities so that you won't be limited to only the available fields.

Custom Fields Settings

Learn about the available settings for custom fields.

Leverage Custom Fields for RIA Analytics

RIA Analytics is a web-based business intelligence platform designed for Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs).