PDF Reporting
Recorded March 2025
Learn about best practices in producing and sharing bundled PDF reports with your clients.
- Produce reports for all or a subset of clients at once
- Use a template to include any combination of reports and invoices in one bundled report
- Publish those reports to your clients' document vault
- Send a customizable email notification to clients
Target Portfolios using Security Models
Recorded February 2025
Learn about best practices for setting up target portfolios using security models.
- Set up a security model using ETFs, mutual funds, and other securities
- Assign a security model as the target portfolio for a client
- View a current vs target report using a security model
- Add a slider to personalize the security model per client
Client and Advisor Email Alerts
Recorded January 2025
Learn about best practices in setting up email alerts for both clients and advisors.
- Set up weekly, monthly, or quarterly email alerts for clients
- Add a disclosure to client email alerts
- Set up daily advisor email alerts
Client Billing
Recorded December 2024
Learn about best practices and helpful hints for setting up client fee billing.
- Set up and assign custom fee schedules
- Generate fee invoices
- Download custodian fee files
- Publish fee invoices to clients
Custom Assets and CSV Imports
Recorded November 2024
Learn how to best utilize custom assets and CSV imports to track assets manually.
- Use custom assets to track real estate, private investments, and other held-away accounts without linking
- Use CSV imports to keep custom asset values and transactions up to date
- Use CSV imports to fill missing balance and transaction history for aggregated accounts or even custodian accounts
- Review and delete CSV imported balances and transactions
Account Aggregation
Recorded October 2024
Learn about best practices and helpful hints for linking, monitoring, and reporting on held-away accounts:
- Allow clients to link held-away accounts
- Monitor client account links at the firm level
- Link held-away accounts at the firm level and assign accounts to clients
- Include held-away accounts in reports and billing
Firm-Level Reporting
Recorded August 2024
Learn about best practices and helpful hints for using firm-level reports:
- Account Balances
- Firm-Level Performance
- Aggregated Investments
- Account Transactions
- Account Cash Balances
Target Portfolios Using Strategies
Recorded July 2024
Learn about best practices and helpful hints for setting up target portfolios using strategies:
- Build a strategy using an asset class set as a framework
- Configure one or more sliders
- Assign a strategy as the target portfolio for a client
- View a current vs target report using a strategy
Custom Asset Classes
Recorded May 2024
Learn about best practices and helpful hints for setting up custom asset classes.
- Create custom asset classes, including asset class trees
- Easily map Morningstar categories and securities to custom asset classes
- Define custom asset allocations to handle target date funds and allocation funds
- Use custom asset classes in client and firm level asset allocation reports
Family and Account-Level Billing
Recorded April 2024
Learn about best practices and helpful hints for client billing at the family or account level:
- Apply a tiered fee schedule across multiple clients to provide an extended family discount (family billing)
- Assign a fee schedule to individual accounts within a household
Performance Benchmarks
Recorded February 2024
Learn about best practices for setting up performance benchmarks.
- Set up custom benchmarks
- Configure client-level access, offsets, and defaults
- Use benchmarks with client and firm performance
- Use benchmarks in bundled reports
Asset Class Rebalancing
Recorded January 2024
Learn about best practices for monitoring and rebalancing using asset classes.
- Assign target portfolios using security models with asset classes
- Monitor current vs target portfolios using asset classes
- Enter rebalancing trades and export trade files
Document Sharing
Recorded November 2023
Learn about best practices for getting the most out of document sharing.
- Use firm files and folders to set up a consistent document vault across clients
- Set up special folders for invoices and bundled reports
- Set up a special folder for Schwab statements
- Share document links to avoid sharing sensitive documents over email
Merging Accounts
Recorded July 2023
Learn the best practices for merging accounts to remove duplicates.
- Select old and new accounts for merging
- Review how account history is merged
- Handle previously closed or deleted accounts
- Handle account transfers
Rebalancing Basics
Recorded May 2023
Learn how to best utilize security models for simple rebalancing.
- Assign target portfolios to clients, using security models
- Set drift tolerance settings to enforce per account
- Check which clients are out of tolerance
- Calculate, review, and export rebalancing trades
Customizing the Client Portal
Recorded January 2023
Learn about best practices and helpful hints for customizing the client portal.
- Set up custom branding
- Customize labels
- Hiding pages from client view
- Setting up user roles
Advanced Reporting using Goals, Entities, and Account Ownership
Recorded November 2022
Learn about best practices and helpful hints for setting up goals, entities, and account ownership.
- Using the sidebar when viewing reports
- Utilizing goals to group accounts for reporting
- Setting up entities
- Establishing account ownership