by Krisan Marotta | Oct 15, 2015 | KBO, Performance
Q. I want to use the PortfolioCenter Transaction Writer and the stock merger/exchange wizard to enter a stock merger. What is the “share exchange ratio” and how do I find it? A. The share exchange ratio is the number of shares the investor receives of the...
by Krisan Marotta | Oct 8, 2015 | KBO, Performance
Q. We have a number of portfolios that hold a stock that awarded a dividend of $5.06 per share. The price of the stock at the time was $20.00 per share. On some reports in Schwab PortfolioCenter, it appears these clients have a large loss, when in fact they have an...
by Krisan Marotta | Oct 1, 2015 | KBO, Reporting
What’s the difference between a Group and a Set in PortfolioCenter? Group = reporting unit A Group is a collection of accounts usually related by family and typically a unit that you’d like to see on one report. For one family you might have any of the...
by Krisan Marotta | Sep 10, 2015 | KBO, Reporting
Does it take too much time to finish your quarter reports because small problems slow you down? You can be ready for quarter end by performing some quick basic checks the week before the quarter ends. Running through the checklist below — before the quarter...
by Krisan Marotta | Sep 1, 2015 | Billing, KBO
PortfolioCenter 5.10 offers some nice new billing features. My favorite: You can now globally clean up the billing history! I’ve been asking for this ability for a long time because it’s easy to get the billing history out of sync with the actual...
by Matheson Russell | Aug 25, 2015 | KBO, Random Musings
When fund managers actively trade a stock fund it produces lower returns than if they trade less than 15% each year. In “What Is The Relationship Between Turnover Rate and Returns?” we learned that having a turnover rate under 15% might be worth as much as 2.21%. It...
