PortfolioCenter Enhancements

These enhancements were originally a part of PortfolioCenter 4.40 and are only new to clients upgrading from PortfolioCenter 4.31 or earlier.

Improve Client Reporting

Reporting Enhancements for Groups & Households

New Group Performance Summary Report allows you to report performance for a group and its underlying portfolios over multiple time periods all on the same report.
Group Member Ordering enables you to specify the order of accounts.
New Omit Intra Group Flows setting for performance reports automatically adjusts the calculations of Contributions and Withdrawals to ignore intra-group flows.

New Capabilities for Separately Managed Accounts

Ability to designate accounts as Separately Managed Accounts and assign additional description fields to those accounts (for example, account open date or the manager's name), as well as portfolio-level asset class, sector codes and sub-sector codes.
New reports that are optimized for accounts designated as Separately Managed in PortfolioCenter. These reports (SMA Portfolio Statement and SMA Position Performance Review) allow you to roll up the positions in the account into a single line item and sort holdings by asset class and sector categories assigned at the "portfolio level" instead of the categories assigned to portfolios rather than to the underlying securities.

Greater Customization and Flexibility for Producing Reports

Unlimited number of Report Disclaimers (previously limited to two) with the ability to assign disclaimers to specific reports. Further customize reports by using overriding disclaimers assigned at the portfolio or group level.
Customizable display text for a performance report cell if the calculation is invalid due to missing data. The default display is two dots (..).
Reporting flexibility to Reorder and Customize Security Types.

Note:
Some of these reporting capabilities require PortfolioCenter Enhanced or the optional Enhanced Reporting Module. To determine if you have one of these features, look for a "Graphical Reports" button on your Portfolio Reports screen. If you would like to learn more, take a look at our Enhanced Reporting Module brochure or contact your SPT Sales representative.

Streamline Firm Operations

Data Management Tools

New Account Transfer Wizard to automate the creation of transactions to close out an account's positions and re-open those positions in another account, while seamlessly transferring the original cost and trade date of each lot.
Ability to display Custom Portfolio Fields on Global Reports and include them in spreadsheet exports produced in the PortfolioCenter Export Wizard.
New Closed Account Flag to indicate that accounts have been closed. Use the Closed Account Flag in Smart Sets to exclude these accounts from your sets.

Improved System Environment Support

Installation of PortfolioCenter updates has been streamlined. Installation improvements include automated database backups and migrations.
Support for Microsoft Vista. Specific versions supported for all configurations include Business and Ultimate in both 32- and 64-bit versions. Home Premium is supported in the Standalone configuration only.
For clients using MSDE, we are automatically upgrading your database to SQL Server 2005 Express with 4 GB database capacity to better support your firm's growth. And, we have added new options for scheduling a backup.
New PortfolioCenter Management Console provides a single platform for the tools you use to manage your PortfolioCenter environment including the Database Manager and the Network Configuration Tool.

New and Improved Data Interface

Significantly improved interface for importing InvestmentView Index Data with new features for customizing the assigned symbol and description.
Documentation and support resources for the ByAllAccounts interface, provides data aggregation from thousands of financial institutions.

This update also addresses a number of quality and usability issues. For details, please review Resolved Issues for PortfolioCenter version 4.40.