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Summary Report

Contents

Introduction

Why Use the Summary Report?

Features of the Summary Report

Add Summary to the Advisor Dashboard

Summary Report Settings

Report Actions

Report Calculations

 

Introduction

Applies to:
✔ Dynamic ✔ PDF Mobile

✔ Client Portal

 

The Summary report gives a broad, holistic overview of what took place in an account or group over one or more date periods. You can display a wide range of data points, including value, flows, benchmarks, and returns for managed and unmanaged assets in the Summary report.

The report displays a table of the data you select. Benchmarks can be added to the table for easy comparison against the account. It can also include a bar chart that always displays net contributions, capital appreciation, income, management fees, and other expenses for the first date period in the table.

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Why Use the Summary Report?

In the Summary report, you will find versatile sorting and charting options that let you answer broad, high-level questions about accounts and groups, such as:

Example 1

A firm includes the Summary report at the beginning of their year-end reporting package to provide an overview of what happened in the client's account over the year. They have set up the Summary report to show the four quarters of the year, adding rows that display start value, various possible transactions and flows that could impact the account value, the ending value, and some summary statistics.

Example 2

An advisor uses the Summary report for reviewing the returns in an account in comparison with the benchmark and allocated weighted benchmark. The Summary report provides context for those returns, showing what activities occurred in the account over the selected date period.

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Features of the Summary Report

The Summary report helps you easily filter and sort data to drill down to meaningful results. Interactive reporting features include:

Note

On dynamic reports, when hover text displays for partial period returns, it will show both start and end dates. If you're using the enhanced performance calculations and there was more than one open period during the selected date range, you will see the start date of the first holding period and the end date of the final holding period.

You can easily identify linked partial period TWR and other partial period returns on your dynamic and PDF reports. A dagger symbol (†) indicates a linked partial period TWR and an asterisk (*) indicates all other partial period returns (TWR and IRR).

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Add Summary to the Advisor Dashboard

You can use dashboard views to see a pared-down, at-a-glance summary of the main dynamic report on your dashboard.

To learn more about creating and managing dashboard views in general, see Create and Share Dashboard Views.

For more information on customizing your dashboard, visit Add/Edit/Delete Dashboard Modules.

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Summary Report Settings

The following settings are available for the Summary report. Click the setting name for more details.

Setting Details Available In...  
Dynamic Report PDF Report Advisor Dashboard PDF Dashboard
Report Name Designate a unique name for the report view. X   X  
Section Title Designate what the section will be called in the PDF report.   X   X
Section Alignment

Align the PDF Dashboard report to the top, middle, or bottom of the vertical space.

      X
Theme Designate what theme the section will use.   X    
Header and Footer Choose a unique header and footer for the section or use defaults.   X    
Include Page Break After This Section

Control where page breaks occur in PDF reports.

  X    
Account Grouping Control grouping of accounts and groups.   X    
Include Reports for Closed Accounts Choose to show sections for accounts that were closed before the report as-of date.   X    
Mark as Publicly Accessible Share the report view. X      

Date Period

Select the date periods you want to use for the report. X X X X
Use Date or Date Period as Title Use the date (MM/DD/YYYY) as the title of the column heading, rather than the name of the date period. X      
Use Inception Date Report partial periods in PDF reports for instances where the account or group was opened after the beginning of the date period selected.   X   X
Group Allocation Weighted Benchmark By Designate which category of allocation weighted benchmark is used in the return calculations. X X X X
Annualize Returns Report the returns as annualized returns. X X X X
Include Intra-Group Flows Include or exclude intra-group flows, or display intra-group flows in the Intra-Group Flows In and Intra-Group Flows Out rows. X X X X
Partial Returns Choose how to mark data points that have partial returns.   X    
Show Chart Show or hide a chart summarizing flows. X X X  
Available/Selected Columns Choose which columns are included, in what order. X X X X
Include Additional Indexes Add the performance any of the firm's available indexes, custom indexes, or blended indexes as a data point. X X X X

 

To learn more about general dynamic reports settings, including how to customize columns, add footers, and more, see:

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Report Actions

You can do any of the following actions with the report.

Action   Available in Dynamic Report Available in PDF Report
Run Report Run dynamic report or PDF template. X X
Edit Report Edit report view or template. X X
Copy Report Copy report view or template. X X
Delete Report Delete report view or template. X X
Share Report Share report view with other firm users. X X
Export to Excel Export report data to a CSV file. X X
Print Report Print a dynamic report. X X
Site Themes Edit how the dynamic report looks. X  
Learn More About Customizing How PDF Templates Look Edit how the PDF report looks.   X

 

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Report Calculations

Entry Transaction Activity Other Considerations
Start Value N/A (market value at start of period)  

Inflows

Deposits and receipt of securities

Assets changed from unmanaged to managed

Examples: buying managed security using unmanaged cash, selling unmanaged security to managed cash, dividend income from unmanaged security going to managed cash, etc.

Child accounts which have a non-zero value at inception during the period being requested

Outflows

Withdrawals and transfer of securities

Assets changed from managed to unmanaged

Formula:

Cash withdrawals
+ Market value of securities transferred out during that period
+ Capital outflows from excluded assets
+ Fees unchecked to reduce both gross and net returns

Change in Value of Securities Held N/A (change in market value during period of positions currently held)

Calculated as plug figure to reconcile beginning to ending value

Formula:

Current Value – Start Value – Cash Inflows – Cash Outflows – Receipts of Securities – Transfers of securities – Transfers – Realized gains – Dividend Income – Interest Income – Management Fees – Other Expenses – Change in accrued

Change in Value of Securities Sold

N/A (change in market value during period of positions sold)

Sells, covers, transfers of securities, income reported as gain, and debit security

Formula:

Value Closed – Market Value at the Beginning of the Date Period

Dividend Income Income transactions marked as: dividend, non-qualified dividend, qualified dividend, payment in lieu of dividend Income must come from managed security
Interest Income Income transactions marked as interest, sell transactions with an accrued interest component Income must come from managed security
Management Fees Expense transactions marked as management fee  
Other Expenses Expense transactions not marked as management fee If the expense type does not reduce net performance, then it is considered a cash outflow instead of an expense.
Change in Accrued  

Difference in accrued income at the start and end date

Formula:

Ending Accrued – Beginning Accrued – Accrued Income Paid

Ending Value N/A (market value at end of period)  
Investment Gain  

Formula:

End Value - Start Value - Net Flows = Capital Appreciation + Income + Other Expenses + Management Fees + Change in Accrued

Transfers Journals, credit security, debit security, buys/sells/shorts/covers where the Money security is set to NONE.  
External Fee Payment When a management fee and a deposit are the same amount on a given date, it is considered an external fee payment. The deposit amount is not included in the Contributions row, even if the External Fee Payment row is omitted from the report.

 

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