Portfolio management
FA's core is a transaction-based portfolio management system. Positions are calculated based on transactions. When saving a transaction, position data is updated and report data recalculation is triggered.
In this Portfolio Management section, all the relevant portfolio management components are introduced. In addition, this section describes helper tools for linked to these components.
Contacts
The portfolio usually belongs to one customer. These system operators are called "contacts" in FA (customer, treasurer, custodian and others).
Portfolios and positions
The portfolio in FA is a basket of investments that can hold stocks, bonds, cash, and other items. These positions have amount (units), purchase price and market price. FA is a transaction-based system, so these positions are built on transactions that are recorded to the system.
Securities
In FA the term "security" refers to a financial instrument that has some monetary value.
If your security list grows too long, so that it has some instruments that are not in use anymore, you can hide unused securities:
Market prices
Market price is the value that an asset acquires in the market or the value that an investment firm assigns to a particular security. In FA, these prices are used to value positions.
In FA you can:
Set market prices manually in UI.
Import market prices with a file.
Have an automatic price connection to market data provider.
If you have a problem getting market prices in required currency, you can use this helper tool:
Transactions
A transaction in FA means any purchase, exchange or sale, merger or split of the position.
Transactions also describe cash transactions for the account or profit and cost transactions for the position.
These are transaction types directly available in Standard Solution: Transaction types.
In some cases, you would like to modify / add the types. Here you can see, what can be modified and how: Standard transaction types versus custom transaction types.
You can
Add, edit and delete contacts, portfolios, securities, market prices and transactions
Import contacts, portfolios, securities, market prices and transactions with CSV files.
Create corporate actions and run the transaction to all customer portfolios at once.
View positions and bank account balance (based on the added transactions and market prices).
Save documents to your contacts, portfolios, securities and transactions.
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