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December 2010 - What's New in Advisor Rebalancing

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Model Assignments Column Available for Report Display Options

More Control Over Rebalance Settings

New Potential Warning Message When Rebalancing

New Rebalancing Status: "No Trades Recommended"

Enhanced Error and Warning Messages

Enhanced Cash Reporting

Rebalance Summary Report

Rebalance Analysis

Detailed Holdings Report

Display Options

Bulk Reports

Rebalancing Group Settings

Client Reporting

Saved Search

Account Settings

Funding Accounts

 

Model Assignments Column Available for Report Display Options

When viewing your accounts in a list, you can now see the model that is assigned to the account.

To check out this new feature, follow these steps:

  1. On the Rebalance & Trade menu in Advisor Rebalancing, click one of the following:

You can also see this enhancement on the Accounts page and the Rebalancing Groups page.

  1. In the More Actions list, click Display Options.

  2. In the Available box of the Report Display Options dialog, click Model and then click .

  1. Click Save. Advisor Rebalancing adds the Model column to the page.

Notes

More Control Over Rebalance Settings

When viewing accounts in a list, such as on the Rebalance & Trade page, it is now easier to make changes to more than one account at a time without making changes to all of your accounts. Before this enhancement, users were only able to make changes to all accounts or one account at a time.

To see this enhancement, follow these steps:

  1. On the Rebalance & Trade menu, click Rebalance or Directed Trade.

  2. Select the accounts you want to modify and then click Set Selected Accounts.

  1. In the Set selected accounts dialog, select the appropriate option and then click OK. Advisor Rebalancing updates the accounts you selected.

Notes

New Potential Warning Message When Rebalancing

When rebalancing an account, Advisor Rebalancing will now let you know if the account has already been rebalanced. This new warning message will prevent users from inadvertently losing rebalancing information or trade files.

While this feature was already present on the Models and Accounts page, we've added it to the Rebalance and Directed Trade pages.

New Rebalancing Status: "No Trades Recommended"

To make it easy to filter out accounts without buys and sells, Advisor Rebalancing now sets the account status on the Rebalance Review to "No Trades Recommended" when it does not have any trade recommendations. Before this enhancement, Advisor Rebalancing set the status to "Success" or "Warning."

Enhanced Error and Warning Messages

When rebalancing accounts, we want to make it as easy as possible to correct errors that may occur. That's why we've enhanced our warning and error messages to be more user friendly. We've also reduced the number of error messages that will prevent users from successfully rebalancing accounts.

The enhanced messages will be grouped into one of three categories:

Enhanced Cash Reporting

To make it easier to manage cash, we've added cash fields to several Advisor Rebalancing reports.

Rebalance Summary Report

The Rebalance Summary report now shows detailed information on important cash information.

We've added the following fields to the report:

Report field More information

Rebalance status

This is the rebalancing status of the account. One of the following statuses will appear in this field:

  • Success. The rebalance was successful.

  • Warning. The rebalance issued warnings. Warnings do not prevent the account for rebalancing successfully.

  • Unable to Rebalance. The previous rebalance issued errors that must be corrected. Errors prevent the account from rebalancing successfully.

  • No Trades Recommended. The account was not rebalanced because there were no trades recommended.

  • Custom Rebalance. Custom rebalance strategy was used to rebalance this account.

  • N/A.A rebalance has not been performed on the account.

Model deviation

The percentage that the account has deviated from the model. If the account has not been rebalanced, the initial model deviation appears.

Number of buys

The number of buy recommendations.

Number of sells

The number of sell recommendations.

Total cash

The total cash of the account, including the cash reserves and additional cash reserves.

Cash reserve goal

The target amount of cash reserves. You can set the cash reserve goal on the Cash Management Settings page.

Cash available for trading

The total amount of cash that is available for trading. This is the amount of cash that exceeds the cash reserve goal as well as is above the total cash reserve upper threshold. This amount will be negative if the account needs to raise cash to meet its cash goals and is below the total cash reserve lower threshold.

Total account value

The total value of the account, including the cash reserves and additional cash reserves.

Rebalancing account value

The value of the account, excluding the cash reserves and additional cash reserves.

Cash reserve actual

The actual amount of cash held in reserve, including additional cash reserve.

Rebalance Analysis

We've also added the detailed cash information to the Rebalance Analysis report:

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Rebalancing account value

The value of the account, excluding the cash reserves and additional cash reserves.

Total account value

The total value of the account, including the cash reserves and additional cash reserves.

Total cash

The total cash of the account, including the cash reserves and additional cash reserves.

Cash available for trading

The total amount of cash that is available for trading. This is the amount of cash that exceeds the cash reserve goal as well as is above the total cash reserve upper threshold. This amount will be negative if the account needs to raise cash to meet its cash goals and is below the total cash reserve lower threshold.

Cash reserve goal

The target amount of cash reserves. You can set the cash reserve goal on the Cash Management Settings page.

Cash reserve actual

The actual amount of cash held in reserve, including additional cash reserve.

 

Note

As a result of adding these new fields to the report, we removed the following report fields: account value, cost basis, cash reserve, additional cash reserve, and cash to raise.

Detailed Holdings Report

We've added detailed cash information to the Detailed Holdings report:

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Cash reserve goal

The target amount of cash reserves. You can set the cash reserve goal on the Cash Management Settings page.

Cash reserve actual

 The actual amount of cash held in reserve, including additional cash reserve.

Note

As a result of adding these new fields to the report, we removed the cash reserve and additional cash reserve fields.

Display Options

The following cash fields have been added as available display options:

Report field

More information

Total account value

The total value of the account, including the cash reserves and additional cash reserves.

Total cash

The total cash of the account, including the cash reserves and additional cash reserves.

Cash reserve goal

The target amount of cash reserves. You can set the cash reserve goal on the Cash Management Settings page.

Cash reserve actual

The actual amount of cash held in reserve, including additional cash reserve.

You can get to the available display options by clicking Display Options in the More Actions list on one of the following pages:

Bulk Reports

We've updated the following bulk report types to allow you to include cash information:

The following information is now on the reports listed above:

Report sectionEnhancements

General account information

Replaced the Account Value field with a Rebalancing Account Value field.

Added a new Total Account Value field.

Account cash management settings

Replaced the Cash Reserve ($) field with a Reserved Cash Goal ($) field.

Replaced the Cash Reserve (%) field with a Reserved Cash Goal (%) field.

Replaced the Additional Cash Reserve ($) field with an Additional Cash Reserve Goal ($) field.

Replaced the Additional Cash Reserve (%) field with an Additional Cash Reserve Goal (%) field.

Added a Total Cash ($) field.

Added a Total Cash (%) field.

Added a Total Cash Reserve Actual ($) field.

Added a Total Cash Reserve Actual (%) field.

Added a Total Cash Reserve Goal ($) field.

Added a Total Cash Reserve Goal (%) field.

Rebalancing Group Settings

The Total Account Value field on the Rebalancing Group Settings page now includes cash reserves and additional cash reserves.

Client Reporting

We've added the following fields to client reporting:

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Rebalance status

This is the rebalancing status of the account. One of the following statuses will appear in this field:

  • Success. The rebalance was successful.

  • Warning. The rebalance issued warnings. Warnings do not prevent the account for rebalancing successfully.

  • Unable to Rebalance. The previous rebalance issued errors that must be corrected. Errors prevent the account from rebalancing successfully.

  • No trades recommended. The account was not rebalanced because there were no trades recommended.

  • Custom Rebalance. Custom rebalance strategy was used to rebalance this account.

  • N/A.A rebalance has not been performed on the account.

Total cash

The total cash of the account, including the cash reserves and additional cash reserves.

Cash reserve actual

The actual amount of cash held in reserve, including additional cash reserve.

Cash reserve goal

The target amount of cash reserves. You can set the cash reserve goal on the Cash Management Settings page.

Cash available for trading

The total amount of cash that is available for trading. This is the amount of cash that exceeds the cash reserve goal as well as is above the total cash reserve upper threshold. This amount will be negative if the account needs to raise cash to meet its cash goals and is below the total cash reserve lower threshold.

Rebalancing account value

The value of the account, excluding the cash reserves and additional cash reserves.

Model deviation

The percentage that the account has deviated from the model. If the account has not been rebalanced, the initial model deviation appears.

Number of buys

The number of buy recommendations.

Number of sells

The number of sell recommendations.

Notes

Saved Search

On the Saved Search page, we renamed the following fields to make them more consistent with other areas of Advisor Rebalancing:

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Account value

Rebalancing account value

The value of the account, excluding the cash reserves and additional cash reserves.

Cash reserve

Cash reserve goal

The target amount of cash reserves. You can set the cash reserve goal on the Cash Management Settings page.

Additional cash reserve

Additional cash reserve goal

The target amount of additional cash reserves. You can set the cash reserve goal on the Cash Management Settings page.

Account Settings

The Total Account Value field on the Account Settings page now includes cash reserves and additional cash reserves.

Funding Accounts

A funding account is an account that is allowed to generate buys from cash generated from another account with which the funding account is associated.

Example

Suppose you manage a household for an athlete. One account in the household is an SMA. Let's say that the athlete has a obligation to only buy stock from Nike in the SMA. The Nike restriction on the account prevents a successful rebalance.

To work around this issue, you designate a funding account for the athlete. The funding account does not have the Nike restriction.

When you rebalance the account, let's say that Tamarac Trading offers one sell recommendation and three buy recommendations in the SMA. Tamarac Trading will recommend the sell and put the remaining buy trades on hold. In about three days when the money from the sell have been deposited into the funding account, Tamarac Trading will then send the buys originally generated for the SMA to the designated funding account. Tamarac Trading will then use the designated funding account to buy the securities for the SMA.

To set up a designated funding account, follow these steps:

  1. On the Accounts menu, click Account Settings.

  2. In the Type account name or number box, type the account name or account number for the account where you want to designate a funding account and then click Select.

  3. Click the Account Configuration tab.

  4. Select the Designate Funding Account check box.

  1. In the Select a funding account list, click the account you want to use as the funding account.

  2. If you want Tamarac Trading to hold duplicate trades in the funding account, select the Hold duplicate trades in funding account check box.

  3. If you want Tamarac Trading to wait a particular number of buys before buying trades with the funding account, type the appropriate number of days in the Days to hold buy trades box.

  1. Click Save.