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September 2014 - What's New in Advisor Rebalancing

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Highlighted Features

Dynamic Models

Account Type and Asset Location Updates

Sell Versus Purchase Support for the Schwab Mixed Trade File

View Notes for Cash Reserves

More Convenient Button Placement

New Columns for Account Grid Pages

Search Enhancements

Integrate Account Sets From Advisor View

Apply As Active Saved Search

Corrected Issues

Additional Usability Enhancements

Learn More - Watch the Release Video

 

Highlighted Features

Each release of Advisor Rebalancing is chock-full of new features and enhancements. To emphasize some of the most important, we list them in the Highlighted Features section of the release notes.

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Dynamic Models

Dynamic models— sometimes called share-based models—use "dynamic" targets that are tied to the share price and adjust based on market movement each day.

For example, let's say you have a momentum investing strategy and your target weights to track the performance of the securities in the model. This feature allows the model targets to adjust based on security pricing; however, you'll still be notified of any major changes in tolerance, such as an advisor liquidating a security that's assigned to the model.

Let's say you have the following model assigned to an account:

Ticker Shares Price Value Model Percentage
AAPL 100 $50 $5,000 50 Percent
MSFT 100 $50 $5,000 50 Percent

 

If AAPL doubles and is now valued at $100 per share, the account would look like this:

Ticker Shares Price Value Model Percentage
AAPL 100 $100 $10,000 66 Percent
MSFT 100 $50 $5,000 33 Percent

 

If you are NOT using dynamic models, Advisor Rebalancing would flag the account as out of tolerance and rebalance the account because the model percentages are not 50/50.

If you do use dynamic models, Advisor Rebalancing would adjust the target based on the price of each security and the account would not be flagged for a rebalance.

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Account Type and Asset Location Updates

In this release, we've renamed the Account Type field to Asset Location Preference. Only the name has changed—all functionality will remain the same.

IMPORTANT

If you upload the AccountType field into Advisor Rebalancing, it's important to change the name of the upload field to AssetLocationPreference to prevent any potential errors when rebalancing your accounts.

In addition to this change, we're now importing the Account Type field from Advisor View into Advisor Rebalancing. You can find the name field on the Account Configuration tab of the Account Settings page.

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Sell Versus Purchase Support for the Schwab Mixed Trade File

The Schwab Mixed Web trade file now supports the sell versus purchase functionality.

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View Notes for Cash Reserves

Many of you add notes to cash reserves that you want others to see – for example, you may want to let another advisor know the specific date for an RMD distribution. With this release, you can see the notes you've added for cash reserves when you:

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More Convenient Button Placement

We've been hard at work to make it even easier to get around in Advisor Rebalancing. For this release, we've made the look and placement of buttons more convenient.

Highlights include:

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New Columns for Account Grid Pages

We've added the following columns to the account grid pages: Accounts, Rebalancing Groups and New Directed Trade.

Accounts Rebalancing Groups New Directed Trade
  • Account Note

  • Custodian

  • Reconciliation Status

  • Rebalance Summary

  • Trade Summary

  • Account Note

  • Account Status

  • Account Type

  • Custodian

  • Group Name 1

  • Group Name 2

  • Reconciliation Status

  • Rebalance Summary

  • Trade Summary

  • Account Note

  • Rebalance Summary

  • Trade Summary

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Search Enhancements

To help you find the information you want, we've made the following search enhancements.

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Integrate Account Sets From Advisor View

Many of you who also use Advisor View have likely created account sets that you use to group your accounts - for example, you may have an account set that shows only taxable accounts. With this release of Advisor Rebalancing, account sets will now be synced from Advisor View to Advisor Rebalancing.

With this new feature, you can:

If you use Advisor View, this feature will be automatically enabled for you.

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Apply As Active Saved Search

When you save a search on the Saved Searches page, it now saves without running the search. You can still click Apply as Active Search if you want to run the new search and set it as the active search.

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Corrected Issues

We've corrected the following issues in this release:

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Additional Usability Enhancements

We’ve made some additional changes to make Advisor Rebalancing as easy to use as possible:

In order to view the accounts that the tactical rebalance will affect, the Security Level Models and Allocation Models pages now show the number of accounts the model is assigned to.

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Learn More - Watch the Release Video

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