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September 2015 - What's New in Advisor Rebalancing

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Rebalancing & Trading

See Total Cash Percentage on the Rebalance Summary, Trade List and More

More Accessible Year to Date Gains & Losses

New Price Column in Trade Summary and Trade Review

Automatic Priority Settings for New Security Level Models added to an Allocation Model

Directed Trades

Enhanced Permissions

New Columns: Created By and Last Modified By

Search Filters

Reconciled Trades

Orders

Usability

Submit Trades Directly to Fidelity

New Trade File Types for TD Ameritrade Institutional

Dynamic Lists for Consistent Data Entry

View Recently Viewed Symbols in Lists

Added DVP Number for Broadridge Trade Files

Edge Browser Compatibility Testing

Learn More - Watch the Release Video

 

Rebalancing & Trading

See Total Cash Percentage on the Rebalance Summary, Trade List and More

We've added a Total Cash (%) column to the following pages:

This column is calculated as Total Cash / Total Account Value. On the Rebalance page, the Total Account Value is determined by the current rebalance strategy.

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More Accessible Year to Date Gains & Losses

Over the years, we've heard that many of you want to see realized gains and losses for tax planning purposes. After we added this feature in July of 2014, many of you asked to see this information in more places. Based on your feedback, we've added the following columns to the Accounts, Rebalancing Groups, Rebalance, Rebalance Review, and Trade List pages:

In addition, we've added the initial- and post-rebalance long-term and short-term year to date realized gain values to the Rebalance Summary report.

NOTES

Rebalancing Group Behavior:

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New Price Column in Trade Summary and Trade Review

We've added a new optional price column to the Trade Summary and Trade Review pages to provide you with more detailed information about trades. This column shows available pricing information used during the last rebalance, whether that's real-time pricing, a custom price, or close price. The price used to generate the rebalance strategy also appears in the Rebalance Summary report in parentheses after the description. If the price is a custom price, it is marked with an asterisk (*).

To add this column to the Trade Review or Trade Summary pages, click the Choose columns button and add Price to the Selected box.

The Price column will then show on the Trade Review and Trade Summary pages.

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Automatic Priority Settings for New Security Level Models added to an Allocation Model

We've added a process that will help you prioritize new Security Level models after they've been added to an Allocation model. Their priorities will be automatically set for you until you can change the Security Level model priorities to fit your strategies.

Previously, users who set up specific model priorities might have encountered an error message after adding new Security Level models to an Allocation model, either through the Security Level Models page or through an upload, and then rebalancing.

Advisor Rebalancing now automatically sets priorities to any new Security Level models you add, eliminating the error message and allowing the account to rebalance. Advisor Rebalancing automatically sets new Security Level models to lowest priority. If you add multiple Security Level models, Advisor Rebalancing places those at the bottom of the priority list in random order until you can set those priorities appropriately.

If you use priorities in Security Level models within Allocation models, it is best practice set those priorities after adding new Security Level models. See more information on setting model priorities.

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Directed Trades

As part of our ongoing efforts to improve directed trades, we've made the process more powerful. We overhauled the directed trades process in the July 2015 enhancements and now we're enhancing directed trades even further.

New Actions to Remove All Accounts and Reapply Trades

You now have two additional options in the More Actions list on the Directed Trades page: 

These additional options provide more functions for completing directed trades and help you save time.

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Enhanced Permissions

We've expanded the permissions we provide around directed trades, giving you greater control over who can see and change directed trades. If your firm has permissions set for users, these permissions will affect how they see directed trades. The permission changes are: 

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New Columns: Created By and Last Modified By

We've added two new columns to the Directed Trades page: Created By and Last Modified By. Both columns include a date and time, so you can quickly see who created the directed trade, who updated the trade, and the last time it was updated. Add these new columns by clicking the button on the Directed Trades page.

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Search Filters

We've added new saved search filters to help you find accounts within reconciled trades or open orders by the security you specify using a certain time period or dollar amount.

Reconciled Trades

On the Saved Searches page, you will now be able to find accounts with reconciled trades using two new filters.

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Orders

On the Saved Searches page, you can now find accounts with specific orders.

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Usability

Submit Trades Directly to Fidelity

We’ve deepened our integration with Fidelity Wealthscape. With this integration, there's no need to download and then manually upload your trade files – Advisor Rebalancing will automatically upload them to Fidelity Wealthscape for you.

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New Trade File Types for TD Ameritrade Institutional

We've added two new trade file types: TD Ameritrade Institutional VEO Equity Block and TD Ameritrade Institutional VEO Equity Allocation. These added trade file types add more options if you use TD Ameritrade Institutional as your custodian.

In order to use the TD Ameritrade Institutional VEO Equity Block and Allocation files, your firm must have a TD Block Account Number established. If you do not already have a TD Block Account, please contact TD Ameritrade Institutional Technical Services at ZINSTAPIPMSUPPORT@tdameritrade.com for more information.

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Dynamic Lists for Consistent Data Entry

When entering data into key data fields like Group Name and Account Keywords, it's important to be consistent across all your accounts - for example, it's best to avoid using an account keyword of HeldAway on one account and Held Away on another account.

To create consistency across your accounts, we've introduced dynamic lists on the fields where consistency is most important, including:

When you start typing in a dynamic list field, you'll start seeing previously used values as you type, so that you can ensure the data you're entering matches other accounts.

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View Recently Viewed Symbols in Lists

Often you search for the same security in multiple places. For example, you may search for the security VFIFX on the Rebalance Summary page and then search for it again on the Security Restrictions page. To save you a little extra time, the 10 most recently viewed symbols will now appear in the Symbol drop-down lists. This change should make it a little faster to find the symbol you want to look up.

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Added DVP Number for Broadridge Trade Files

We've updated Broadridge Trade Files to include a 9-digit DVP number.

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Edge Browser Compatibility Testing

With the release of Windows 10, we are hard at work to ensure the Advisor Xi® Suite is compatible with the new Edge browser. We are still conducting extensive testing and the Edge browser is not officially supported at this time. Keep an eye on the release notes for further announcements.

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Learn More - Watch the Release Video

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