IPS Overview and Navigation

The purpose of this guide is to provide an overview of the Portfolio component

• To view the IRESS Insights Video, please view the following link here and here. (Created by Anthony Derriscott on July 28, 2016)

Portfolio's is used to manage client investments, providing an audit trail for investment transactions. Portfolios can contain a variety of investment security types that can be added, modified and/or removed. Accurate data entry of client investment information will result in effective financial modelling and reporting. Investment transactions can be entered and updated manually or by datafeeds.

You would access Portfolios to:

• Add the client’s financial assets
• View the client’s assets
• Edit the holding position
• View transactions
• View the asset allocation

IPS Module Components

1. IPS Portfolio
   

   • This overview outlines the main components below available in the client's IPS Portfolio screen:
     
     
     • Position - Displays the client‟s current situation
     • Performance – includes Profit Analysis, Benchmark and Progress.
     • Asset Allocation – Provides asset allocation of holdings
     • Transactions – Shows transactions that have taken place
     • Cash Summary - Summarise credit and debit transaction
     • Cash Match - Match cash account to Asset trade and Cash Income transaction 
     • CGT – Where modelling on CGT can be done
     • Settings – To set how you want IPS displayed
       
       Further information on Portfolios Portfolio here
       
       
       

2. IPS Model

   • This overview outlines the main components below available in the client's IPS Model screen:
     
     
     • Model – Apply Model Portfolios as a recommendation
     • Recommend – Make manual recommendations
     • Asset Allocation – View the Asset Allocation of your recommendation
       
       Further information on Portfolios Model here
       
       
       

3. IPS Reports

   • Select and run different Reports based around the Client‟s Portfolio information.
     
     Further information on Portfolios Reports here 
     
     
     

4. IPS Admin

   • This overview outlines the main components below available in the client's IPS Admin screen:
     
     
     • Properties – Adjust the settings for this client such as Tax Type: CGT Allocation Method and Currency
     • External Accounts – View Any Datafeeds that the client has linked to their portfolio
     • Cash and Accounts – View Portfolio Account and Cash Account settings
       
       Further information on Portfolios Admin here
       
       
       

5. Corporate Actions

   • A corporate action is any event that brings material change to a company. In the case of a share split, merger, warrant or hybrid maturity (where a note then converts to either cash or shares) corporate actions can be automated and templated in XPLAN.
     
     Further information on Corporate Actions here

IPS Investment Search

Understand and utilise the various search functions that around IPS and investments

Further information on Investment Search here  

IPS Functions

• Create an Approved Product List

  Understand how to create an Approved Product List (Recommended List).
  
  To view the IRESS Insights Video, please view the following link here. (Created by Anthony Derriscott on July 27, 2016)
  
  
  

• Create a Portfolio Product

  Understand how to create a Portfolio Product.
  
  To view the IRESS Insights Video, please view the following link here. (Created by Anthony Derriscott on July 27, 2016)
  
  
  

• Customising Portfolio View

  Learn how to customise the portfolio screen to view different fields of information.

  To view the IRESS Insights Video, please view the following link here. (Created by Anthony Derriscott on Feb 19, 2018)
  
  
  

• Add an Investment Goal
  

  Understand how to add the clients investment goal in IPS module.
  
  To view the IRESS Insights Video, please view the following link here. (Created by Anthony Derriscott on July 28, 2016)

Linking

The purpose of this guide is to providing instructions on how to link a Client Focus Asset to an IPS Holding/Account.

Assets can be linked to one of the client's Portfolio Accounts or a Portfolio position in an unlinked Account. This allows you to update the market value of an Asset automatically using the data from IPS, and also to use Quick Entry to add holdings to the Portfolio Account from the Asset page. Values are automatically updated based on the latest IPS data.

Further information on Linking here 

Export

• CLASS Super
  
  XPLAN can export XML files that are compatible with APS's Advance Desktop Super product. You can export the transaction or balance data specific to a user.
  
  Further information on Export to Class Super here
  
  
• ADS
  
  XPLAN can export XML files that are compatible with the CLASS Super software. You can export the transaction or balance data specific to a user. Once linked to your XPLAN account, CLASS Super data for superfund clients can be viewed in Client Dashboards.
  
  Further information on Export to ADS here