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September 2013 - What's New in Advisor View

Contents

Maintain Accounts & Groups in Advisor View

Manage Securities & Categories in Advisor View

Committed Capital Report

Print Preview for PDF Templates

Select the Expense Types on the Income and Expenses Report

Billing History Bulk Report Improvements

View the Advisor on Reports & Saved Searches

More Customizable Holdings PDF Report

More Control Over Themes

Enhanced Saved Searches

Additional Usability Enhancements

Learn More - Watch the Release Video

 

Maintain Accounts & Groups in Advisor View

Today, most of you maintain your groups and client information in your portfolio accounting system. This means that if you want to update client information, you need to sign into your portfolio accounting system, make the necessary changes, and then synchronize the data to Advisor View. To help you run your operations more efficiently, you can now maintain account and group information directly in Advisor View.

In addition to streamlined account management, when you manage your accounts and groups in Advisor View, you'll get:

To take advantage of this functionality, please contact your Tamarac service team for a quick consulting call.

Manage Securities & Categories in Advisor View

In addition to maintaining accounts and groups in Advisor View, you can also maintain information about your securities and categories in Advisor View. Like maintaining accounts and groups, when you maintain your securities and categories in Advisor View, you'll no longer need to toggle between Advisor View and your portfolio accounting system. To help you run your operations more efficiently, you can now maintain security and category information directly in Advisor View.

Maintaining your securities in Advisor View gives you these important benefits:

To take advantage of this functionality, please contact your Tamarac service team.

Committed Capital Report

If a client has committed capital to a venture capital fund, the client will generally need to make contributions over a specified time period to satisfy the terms of the agreement. With this release of Advisor View, you can now track the payment information in Advisor View on the new Committed Capital report.

To track the progress of contributions, you can enter the call dates for the committed capital. After capital is called, Advisor View will look back 10 days for a corresponding transaction from the funding account. The "look back" for the corresponding transaction will allow you to keep the account value intact while cash is in transit between the brokerage account and the private security.

To take advantage of the new Committed Capital report, you'll need to maintain your accounts, groups, and securities in Advisor View. Please contact your Tamarac service team for a consulting call.

Print Preview for PDF Templates

With this release, you can now preview how a report will look before it's printed on paper without affecting billing history. If you like what you see, you can save the report template, or you can go back to editing the template. Any errors that might occur are displayed on the PDF Templates page, allowing you to easily make any necessary updates.

To print preview a PDF template, click Generate Sample Report and then choose the account for which you want to preview the report.

Select the Expense Types on the Income and Expenses Report

You now have complete control over the expense types you want to appear on the Income and Expenses report. For example, you may want to remove federal withholding from the report in order to only see the expenses that reduce net performance or create a report that just shows management expenses.

To choose the expense types to appear on the report, in the report options, select the check box next to each expense type you want to view.

Billing History Bulk Report Improvements

In our last release of Advisor View, we delivered bulk reports, which help you gain deep insights into your client portfolios. Bulk reports are custom comma-delimited reports that you can build using data found in Advisor View and Advisor Rebalancing.

In this release, we've added some new fields to the Billing History bulk report to make sure you can find the information you want. The new fields are:

In addition, we've added a total row for the billing group.

View the Advisor on Reports & Saved Searches

From building saved searches to viewing your list of accounts – you can now view information on the advisor. For viewing accounts, you can add the Advisors column to the Accounts page. When you're building account saved searches or composite saved searches, you can add the advisor as a search filter.

More Customizable Holdings PDF Report

With this release, we've added a new option for customizing the PDF Holdings report. We've added the option to show a total row for securities.

For more information on customizing the PDF Holdings report, visit Holdings Report.

More Control Over Themes

In a previous release of Advisor View, we delivered themes, which give you control over report formatting. Since we released themes, we've heard some feedback that you wanted even greater control over number precision, benchmark appearance, legends, and more. With this release, we're pleased to announce that we've made a number of improvements to themes, so you can customize even more information on your reports.

The changes include:

For more information on customizing your themes, visit PDF Themes.

Enhanced Saved Searches

Over the past few releases, we've delivered several search filters that make it easier to build saved searches and locate your accounts. With this release, we've added the following search filters to Advisor View:

Additional Usability Enhancements

We've made some additional changes to make Advisor View as easy to use as possible:

Learn More - Watch the Release Video