Investment Account
Manager,
Version 2
User Guide, Tutorials &
Reference
Manual
Providing Total Portfolio Management Systems
Since 1985
QUANT IX SOFTWARE, Inc. 11518 North Port Washington Road, Suite 102
Mequon WI 53092 U.S.A.
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Welcome to Investment Account Manager, v2
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Chapter 1 - General Discussion
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Chapter 2 – Home Page and Menu Listings
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Chapter 3 - Sample Reports
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Chapter 4 - Effective Portfolio Management
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Chapter 5 - Investment Account Manager Tutorials
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Chapter 6 – Importing from Financial Institutions
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Chapter 7- Importing Quicken® Data
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Chapter 8 – Importing MS Money®
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Chapter 9 - Importing Captools Data
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R1 -File Menu Features and Functions
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R2 - Edit Menu and Functions
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R3 - Transactions Menu and Functions
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R4 - Reports & Graphs Menu Choices
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R5 - Asset Library Menu
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R6 - Tools Menu
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R7 - Help Menu
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Welcome to Investment Account Manager, v2
Portfolio management is like tending to a garden. Success requires
knowledge, a tailored initial design, effective tools, and a devotion to
reap a bountiful harvest. Similarly, Investment Account Manager
is designed to be an educational, comprehensive portfolio
management program designed with tools to help you reach your
investment portfolio objectives.
esigned by portfolio management professionals, and used by individual investors in related forms since 1985, Investment Account Manager (IAM) will help you become a better and more informed investor. Whether you are a self-reliant investor, or rely on the advice of others to make your portfolio management decisions, IAM‟s many features will improve the management of your portfolios. With IAM‟s flexible multiple portfolio design, extensive online help, and intuitive interface, you will be using powerful portfolio management features to help answer many questions including:
Are my portfolios constructed to meet by risk tolerance and objectives? What securities are held in my different accounts?
How do my portfolios inter-relate? How are my portfolios performing?
What is the allocation of my portfolio and am I properly diversified? Are my securities fundamentally sound?
What are the tax consequences of my portfolios?
As you learn to use Investment Account Manager, you will also learn traditional portfolio management techniques. We encourage you to keep this documentation handy to improve the learning process.
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This documentation is divided into three main sections. The first four chapters provide an overview of Investment Account Manager and effective portfolio management decision tools.
Chapter One: Investment Account Manager Features and General
Discussion. Chapter One provides a brief overview of features provided by Investment Account Manager, and a general discussion of the tool bar choices and how to use the online help system. Also included is an explanation of the initial program installation.
Chapter Two: Investment Account Manager‟s Home Page and Menu Listings. Chapter Two reviews IAM‟s home page design. A thorough review of this chapter will help you to quickly learn how to best utilize the home page information for portfolio management decisions.
Chapter Three: Investment Account Manager Sample Reports. Investment Account Manager provides many informative reports and graphs to help you make better investment decisions. To illustrate those reports and graphs, we have included sample data so you can immediately review the powerful reporting and graphing capabilities of the program. We encourage you to closely review this chapter and sample reports to gain an insight to the comprehensive reporting and graphing tools available.
Chapter Four: Effective Portfolio Management. This chapter includes discussions on effective portfolio management tools, including multiple portfolio management, fundamental ratio analysis and portfolio allocation. Investment Account Manager includes features that help you to improve portfolio management and make effective investment decisions.
Chapters Five through Eight include tutorials to teach you how to use Investment Account Manager, including downloading activity form financial institutions, and importing existing data from Quicken® and MS® Money software.
Chapter Five: Investment Account Manager Tutorials. By carefully reviewing the tutorials, you will understand how the program is intended to operate, while quickly learning how to utilize the program for your specific needs.
Chapter Six: Investment Account Manager & Financial Institutions. Investment Account Manager provides several features for integrating with your financial institution (if available in our list of financial institutions). These features help users to either quickly create a portfolio of their accumulated balances for instant analysis, or to download their recent investment transaction activity,
Chapter Seven: Investment Account Manager Importing Quicken Data. Investment Account Manager includes an import feature that allows the conversion of most investment transactions from a Quicken 98 (Quicken Interchange Format QIF) file or later into the Investment Account Manager. Chapter Eight: Investment Account Manager Importing MS® Money files
to conveniently convert your MS® Money files into BI Investment Account Manager.
Chapter Nine: Investment Account Manager Importing Captools® Data. Investment Account Manager also provides the ability to convert and import Captools® Software investment data.
Reference Sections
Reference Sections R1 – R6: These final reference chapters describe in detail all features, dialogue boxes, data fields, tabs, and other details for using the Investment Account Manager. Each chapter is a thorough review of the various menus and items available in Investment Account Manager. Appendix A1: This appendix lists all maintenance releases for Investment
Account Manager since original release in May 2007.
Appendix A2: This appendix provides instructions on how to upload your portfolios to both Yahoo! and Google.
I N V E S T M E N T A C C O U N T M A N A G E R
Investment Account
Manager’s Features and
General Discussion
In order to be useful, portfolio management software must provide
answers to critical questions in an easy to use and easy to
understand format. The following chapter provides a brief review
of Investment Account Manager‟s features and a general discussion
of IAM‟s software design.
earning a new software program should be gratifying. A new user sets out with the goal of improving a process via a logically designed tool. This is how Investment Account Manager has been designed and used in related forms since 1985. Over that time we have included many improvements as suggested by a varied customer base. We have also developed a detailed online help system to thoroughly explain the programs many features and why they have been included in the.
Centralized secure portfolio management of all your accounts on your computer.
It is critically important to collectively manage your accounts. Having the information on your computer provides you with access to your data 24/7, regardless of the status of your internet connection.
Comprehensive investment tracking features for a variety of asset types: cash, money market funds, US Governments, agencies, tax-exempt bonds, corporate bonds, preferred stocks, mutual funds, exchange traded funds, common stocks, options, investment clubs and other investments. Diversified portfolios hold different asset classes and different securities within each class. IAM handles many different asset types.
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Investment Account Manager Includes the Following Features Detailed transaction accounting for purchases, sales, dividends, interest, expenses, universal stock split/dividend, spin-off and mergers,
tender/exchanges, return of capital, dividend reinvestment plans (Drips), security transfers, opening buys and sales, assignments, exercises and short sales.
By providing accurate tracking of ordinary transactions Investment Account Manager is able to accurately reflect portfolio activity, balances and tax consequences.
Download your current balances and transaction activity from your financial institution (if available).
Some users prefer a more automatic approach to update portfolio activity. IAM includes the method to download monthly account activity from many financial institutions (those providing data downloads using the OFX - Open Financial Exchange file format). Those preferring manual data entry will appreciate IAM‟s quick, intuitive data entry screens.
More than 40 professional reports and graphs summarizing your investments: current holdings, unrealized gains/losses, sold positions & realized gains/losses (tax filing), income received (tax filing), capital gain distributions, commissions paid, asset allocation, portfolio diversification, portfolio cash flow projections, tax basis, performance measurements, asset maturity schedule, transactions ledger, and more.
In order for portfolio management software to be useful, it must generate reports that answer the critical questions central to effective management, both on an individual and collective portfolio basis. IAM reports are designed to be self-explanatory since users might want to share these reports with advisors, friends and family members.
Portfolio Setup Wizard provides step-by-step portfolio creation.
Users will like the ability to follow IAM‟s step-by-step portfolio setup wizard. This feature walks new users through the initial setup of their portfolio to reflect current balances for immediate portfolio reviews.
Multiple portfolio management features to track each of your investment accounts. Collectively manage all of your investment accounts.
Often investors have more than one account - IRA, taxable, joint, etc. – that need to be reviewed and managed collectively. Answering questions regarding overall asset allocation, diversification, security placement, etc. is essential for successful investment results.
Customizable reports and graphs including by date range, by portfolio, by asset class, by sector, by size and by fundamental analysis screens.
Investors make their decisions based on different criteria. IAM‟s report flexibility allows users to customize their reports.
Security lot assignment using first-in first-out, last-in last-out, average cost, specific identification, or the Canadian average cost.
Sound tax decision making is an essential part of effective portfolio management. Knowing when to offset gains with losses can dramatically increase after-tax returns. IAM includes the lot-by-lot accounting methods needed to make sound tax decisions.
Portfolio asset allocation analysis including the proportional impact of mutual fund holdings.
Since it has been shown that asset allocation accounts for most of the explanation of portfolio performance, IAM provides very detailed asset allocation analysis, including the proportional impact of each mutual fund/ETF held within a portfolio.
Set portfolio target allocations and identify any rebalancing requirements. In addition to knowing the current asset allocation of a portfolio, IAM also allows users to set customized asset allocation target percentages based on a portfolio risk and return profile. Analyze your performance using the time-weighted internal rate of return
method and then compare your result to the market indexes.
Investors must accurately analyze historic portfolio performance in order to understand past successes and mistakes. IAM includes the widely accepted time-weighted IRR method to help users understand how they are doing.
Common stock fundamental ratio analysis.
Using time tested fundamental ratio analysis can help investors make better decisions. Investment Account Manager offers tools for a thorough understanding of dividends, earnings, cash flow, book value, etc. to improve decision making.
Mutual fund and ETF analysis including diversification, performance, turnover and more.
Many investors prefer the diversification offered by mutual funds and exchange traded funds when building their portfolios. IAM provides detailed mutual fund and ETF analysis, including impact on asset allocation decisions.
Additional important features include:
Price your securities via the Internet. Price alerts to monitor your securities.
Easy Internet links to other popular investment web sites.
Data importing / exporting to and from other popular programs, as well as AAII‟s Stock Investor Pro (www.aaii.com), spreadsheet and word processing programs.
Automatic backup and restore features.
Batch processing of reports to allow for unattended report generation. Dual user modes: beginner and advanced.
A detailed online help system for answers and hints to learn the program.
General Discussion
Prior to using the Investment Account Manager, take a few minutes to review the following information. You‟ll find it helpful as an overview of Investment Account Manager and how Investment Account Manager is designed to operate.
Select drop down menus by moving the mouse pointer to the desired menu and clicking name, or by simultaneously pressing the "Alt-key" and the underlined letter shown in the menu bar.
Some screens include a tab layout design. To move between tabs, simply click on the tab and the screen view will change accordingly.
Clicking the mouse at the beginning of a data field will set the starting point for the keyboard entry. When a field has been fully completed, the cursor will advance automatically. You can also use your mouse to „point and click‟ to move between
fields. Although we highly recommend the use of a mouse to navigate within
Investment Account Manager, the keyboard can also be used to navigate between fields. In most cases, you can use the Tab arrow keys (,) to move between fields, and use the Enter key to complete entries. When entering data, you will notice some fields are yellow-shaded, indicating they are required entries. Those data fields not yellow-shaded are optional entries.
Investment Account Manager includes a tool bar that provides quick access to several of IAM‟s frequently used features. This tool bar is more fully explained in Chapter Two, as part Investment Account Manager Home Page features.
Included with your Investment Account Manager technical support is the ability to download incremental product maintenance releases. These are made available on an as needed basis to fix bugs and add improvements to the program. Use the Check for
Updates button found in the menu bar:
One of the best ways to stay informed of maintenance releases is to sign up for our free newsletter at www.investmentaccountmanager.com. The newsletter is free and will include product announcements, special offers and useful tips and suggestions.
Note: we will not share your email and will only use your email as part of the IAM newsletter.
Many of the Investment Account Manager reports provide the ability to "drill-down" on the details that make up the information found on one of the report lines. This is indicated by a change of appearance of your mouse pointer to resemble a magnifying glass:
Blue underlined text indicates hyperlinks to other information. A left click of your mouse will often produce an associated report, while a right click will bring up another popup menu window providing quick access to popular features.
Investment Account Manager will initially show all reports in a print preview version for your review providing the report without the need for actually printing the report. While in the preview mode, you can „lock‟ column headings for the ability to scroll data. For example, select the reports and graphs menu | portfolio | appraisal report. Now select the „report‟ button. While in preview mode, move your mouse pointer
IAM Tool Bar
Checking for IAM Program Updates
over the top detail line labeled „Money Market Funds‟ and right click your mouse. You‟ll notice a pop-up window with several choices:
Select the choice for Freeze Pane. Notice a cross hatch line appears in the preview
window and you are now able to horizontally scroll the portion of the report below the selected detail line. You‟ll find this ideal for scrolling data below report headings. Unfreeze using the same right click method, and select Unfreeze Pane.
Investment Account Manager allows you to manage single or multiple investment portfolios. A portfolio is a list of the securities you hold within the account. Another
way of thinking about the term portfolio is as your investment account.
As previously stated, you may have several portfolios within Investment Account Manager - a taxable account, a retirement account, a joint account, a watch list, etc. - with each portfolio including one or more of these asset types: cash accounts, stocks, mutual funds, bonds, etc. Transactions for the portfolio (purchases, sales,
reinvestments, income, etc.) are tracked and maintained separately for each portfolio providing segregated accounting. At any time, a portfolio‟s investment transactions can be reviewed to inform you of current market values, asset positions, useful tax information, etc. Additionally, instantaneous collective reporting is available while generating IAM reports on the report setup menu.
Other General Hints:
As you create and add transactions to portfolios, Investment Account Manager automatically populates an Asset Library database. This asset library is the central
database utilized by the program to store shared asset-descriptive information - name, security symbol, asset type, sector, current market price, dividend rate per share, etc. In other words, if multiple portfolios hold the same security, Investment Account
Manager‟s Asset Library shares the asset descriptive data as needed. Using the Online Help System
The Investment Account Manager online help system is designed to be a useful reference tool, offering detailed explanations, definitions, "how-to‟s", and flow charts to help you get answers to your questions. We suggest you take a few minutes now to review the operation of the help system. If you are unable to find the answer to your question in this help system, please visit our web site to review up-to-date FAQs (frequently asked questions), review PowerPoint presentations, or to contact us.
Help Window Defined
The top line online help system found under the tools menu | contents and is shown in a unique window frame, with its own menu bar, choices and other icon buttons. You‟ll notice the help window is displayed in two panes: the left view pane acts as a navigational tool for locating specific help topics; the right view pane displays the help topic text.
The Hide option allows you to disable the left hand navigational pane for the Investment Account Manager Help system. Most users will prefer to show this left navigational pane. The Back option allows you to move quickly back to the last previous help topic reviewed. The Print option allows you to print the single help topic you are currently reviewing, or all available help topics within that help topic „book‟. The Options drop down menu summarizes the first three options just discussed, plus a few other choices that are not utilized by Investment Account Manager.
The contents tab organizes the help system by „books‟ represented with this icon. With your mouse positioned over a book, use a left double-click to open the book listing the help topics associated with this book. Once a book is
Portfolio
Databases versus the Asset Library
open, topics appear as To close the book, point and left double-click on the open book icon.
The index tab lists all available help topics in Investment Account Manager, organized in alphabetic order. Use a left-click on this icon to open the list, followed by pointing to and left-double clicking a topic of interest. The selected help topic will then be
displayed in the right view pane.
The search tab enables users to create a specific help list, and then do a deep search for that word or phrase throughout the Help System. Once you‟ve created this help list, you can reference it as often as necessary to answer questions you have on using Investment Account Manager. Additionally, most screens and windows within IAM provide specific help for that screen (context sensitive help), by selecting the Help Button found on the screen.
Installing Investment Account Manager
Investment Account Manager is supplied via a download file found at
www.investmentaccountmanager.com. The program initially installs as a free 45 day demo version, which can be converted to a full version by ordering the software. Investment Account Manager will operate under Windows XP or higher, and also on Apple computers capable of running Windows applications.
After the program has been downloaded, saved and initially installed to your computer, please follow these initial setup steps.
Please complete the initial setup screen:
Installing Investment Account Manager
Installing and activating on a backup computer.
You are allowed a second installation of Investment Account manager, so long as you follow the terms of the license agreement, specifically:
“You may install a second copy of the software to another computer (laptop, office, other
home computer) provided the second installation is used only by the person covered by the
license, and there is NO POSSIBILITY of the software being used concurrently with
the first installation, and provided the second installation is never made available to
another party for the purpose of operating the software. You are permitted to make one
backup copy of the software.”
Follow these steps:
1) Download the trial version from www.investmentaccountmanager.com onto the second computer.
2) Install the trial version on the second computer.
3) Using a data backup made from the original, activated copy (I.e., File Menu | Backup Data), restore the data into the 2nd installation (File Menu | restore Data).
These steps will copy your portfolios as well as synchronize and activate the second installation.
Installing and activating on a backup computer.
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Investment Account Manager Home Page and
Menu Listings
When Investment Account Manager loads, it begins by displaying the IAM Home
Page. The Home Page provides a summary for the open portfolio, the most recent
portfolio that you were last using or reviewing. The Home Page is like your dash board – it is the navigation center while using Investment Account Manager. The
Home page window shows an informative summary for the currently open portfolio, with easy access to menus, data, reports and other useful tools. Note: the information displayed on the Home Page is dependent on the user mode preference – either beginner or advanced. You can set a preference for user mode by selecting the File Menu | Preferences | User Mode tab. This guide shows the advanced mode.
The Investment Account Manager ‘Home Page’ advanced mode displays a summary of information for the current portfolio.
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Home Page Menu Listings and Features
The IAM Menu Bar provides access to drop-down menus for selecting Investment Account Manager Features. The menus include: file, edit, transactions, reports, asset library, performance, tools, help, and check for updates. This chapter will now briefly review each of these menus and the choices available. Note: the Reference portion
of this manual reviews each of these menus in greater detail.
File Menu: (see reference R1 for greater details)
Add, Edit, Delete Portfolios - for our purposes, portfolios are synonymous with investment accounts. They are a collection of investments with a common
characteristic. For instance, your IRA would be one portfolio, your taxable account another. Portfolios should be segregated by financial institution for easy record keeping. Note: you can track an unlimited number of portfolios within
Investment Account Manager and you can combine your portfolios on the various reports to meet your specific reporting goal.
Import - use this choice to import data from several outside data sources: an Internet price file, an Investor‟s Toolkit Portfolio(s), SSG estimated high and low prices, Captools Investment Software file, OFX transactions file from your financial institution, MS Money® File and/or a Quicken® Interchange Format (QIF) File.
Export - use this choice to export a security price file, security symbol list, or the Current Asset Library to be used in another program.
Menu Bar
Password - create a password to protect unauthorized access into Investment Account Manager. Be careful to make note of your password. If you should forget it, you will need to contact QUANT IX SOFTWARE for removal, based on ownership verification.
Backup Data - backing up your Investment Account Manager files is essential and easy to accomplish. It is recommended that you utilize at least two
independent backup media to external drives (i.e., CD or flash drive) to protect your data in the event of a hardware failure.
Restore Data - in the event of software or hardware failure it may become necessary to restore your data into Investment Account Manager using a previously made backup disk. The backup is required to restore you data.
Preferences - this choice is used set your individual preferences including backup frequency and destination directory, report setup preferences, Home Page options, user mode selection, data download providers for stock and mutual fund data downloads and your Internet sites of interest.
Convert Portfolio Manager Data – Use this choice to convert data
previously used in BetterInvesting® Portfolio Manger versions 3, 4 or 5.
Exit - use this choice to close Investment Account Manager as an alternative to the red “X” in the upper right corner of the Home Page window.
Edit Menu: (see reference R2 for greater details)
Copy a Security to another Portfolio (advanced mode) - the Copy a Security to Another Portfolio choice is used to copy all records (purchases, sales, income, etc.) of one asset in a portfolio to another portfolio in Investment Account Manager. This is a useful feature to completely move the history of a particular security from one IAM portfolio to another. After copying a security(s) to another portfolio, the feature allows deletion from the originating portfolio.
Transfer a Security to another Portfolio (advanced mode) - the Transfer a Security to another Portfolio choice is used to transfer (i.e., move out of a portfolio) either a portion of a security holding or an entire position to another portfolio being tracked in Investment Account Manager. It can also be used to deliver holdings out of Investment Account Manager (i.e. to a charity, family member, etc.). This feature provides the ability to assign the original basis to the
transferred shares or to enter a market price of your choice to use for the adjusted (stepped up) basis for the transferred shares.
Remove a Security from this Portfolio - the Remove a Security from this Portfolio feature will completely delete that security‟s historical data from the portfolio. This feature removes all transaction records for the asset selected from the open portfolio - the purchases, sales, income, return of capital, etc. and is used if you have made errors with data entries for a particular security, within a specific portfolio, and would like to re-enter those transactions.
Transactions Menu: (also see reference R3)
Investment Account Manager classifies and segregates database files as either portfolio database files or Asset Library database files. Portfolio databases are further separated by individual portfolio. Portfolio transactions are added to the individual portfolio (i.e., specific purchase, sale, etc), while collective data is stored in the Asset Libraries – either the Current Asset Library or Historical Price Library. This collective information includes security name, security symbol, asset type, market price, etc. and is shared with the portfolios. The following choices are found under Investment Account Manager‟s Transaction Menu:
Add, Edit, Delete Transactions - use this selection to open Investment Account Manager‟s portfolio activity ledger which is used to record transaction activity. Batch Broker Downloads – provides the ability to download transactions from
multiple institutions for multiple portfolios.
Download from Financial Institution - Investment Account Manager is able to download recent portfolio transaction activity (i.e., purchase, sale, income, etc.). This download ability is designed for users that have previously added historically accurate portfolios, up to the date of the earliest downloadable data. In other words, if your financial institution only provides 90 days of historical transaction activity, then your earlier history should be entered up to this 90 day cutoff date prior to before downloading from the financial institution. Subsequent downloads can be at anytime.
Import Transaction File (OFX, QFX) - IAM is also able to import a transaction file (OFX, QFX) provided by many online financial institutions. This is a helpful option in the event your financial institution is not provided in our list of
downloadable broker choices. Note: if the online financial institution you use is
not listed in our available choices, contact them to check if they provide download support for Open Financial Exchange (OFX). If so, use this choice to import that file into Investment Account Manager.
Note: if you would like to work with us and your financial institution to develop an interface for the automatic OFX downloading, please direct all questions to [email protected] and to your financial institution.
Import Transaction File QIF - IAM is also able to import a transaction file compatible with Quicken (QIF). This is a helpful option in the event your
financial institution is not provided in our list of available choices, does not provide the standard OFX or QFX file format, or if you are appending ongoing activity from your Quicken software.
Update Portfolio Performance Table – (File Menu | Preferences | settingmust be activated) Investment Account Manager maintains a Portfolio
Performance Table used for storing and linking the annual performance returns for a portfolio, or for an individual security. The table also provides the ability to store the yearly performance returns for three common indices: DJIA, S&P 500, and NASDAQ. This enables you to compare how well your portfolio or assets have performed in relation to these indices. This feature also allows the creation of performance graphs to illustrate the information included in the table. Use the Reports Menu | Portfolio Performance | Linked Returns Graph
Global Transactions - Investment Account Manager allows for easy and accurateposting of global transactions. These include income (i.e. apply a declared cash dividend to all portfolios holding the stock), stock splits (i.e. 2:1 stock split), stock dividend distributions (i.e. 10% stock dividend is declared resulting in additional shares), spin-offs (i.e. Company ABC issues holders shares in Company EFG) and mergers (i.e. Company 123 is taken-over by Company 456). IAM‟s global
transactions adjust any or all of the portfolios within the program for the global activity. For instance, if you hold XYZ stock in several portfolios, and XYZ
declares a 2:1 stock split, Investment Account Manager will automatically adjust each portfolio to reflect the stock split.
Reports Menu (also see reference R4)
Investment Account Manager provides many informative reports and graphs to help you make better investment decisions. A brief discussion of the IAM reports is provided now, but we encourage you to closely review Chapter Three for reviewing and printing a few of IAM‟s reports with sample tutorial data.
Appraisal Report: this report provides current value, unrealized gains or losses, estimated income, and other portfolio summary information. The report segregates securities according to type, and provides totals with weighted averages where appropriate.
Fees and Expenses Report: this report segregates and totals fees and expenses recorded in your portfolio, including account & service fees, advisory fees, foreign tax withheld, other miscellaneous fees.
Holdings Summary Report: this report accumulates and values a portfolio based on the market values of the individual securities, listing holdings based on the values of the individual holdings, highest market values to lowest market values. Income Report: this report provides a summary of dividends, interest and capital
gain distributions recorded in your portfolio. It is segregated by security, by type and by taxability. This is one of the tax preparation reports you will use from the Investment Account Manager.
Maturity Schedule Report: the Maturity Schedule compiles important
information regarding the maturity dates of securities held in a given portfolio. The report segregates securities based on these maturity ranges.
Security Basis Report: this report lists the lot-by-lot purchase transaction details for portfolio holdings, and is an important source of information for making wise tax decisions. By carefully selecting which purchase lots to be allocated to a
sale, other previously realized gains and losses can be offset.
Sold Securities Report: this report summarizes the sales of securities for the portfolio. Sales activity is separated based on short term holding period activity and long term holding period activity. This is another of IAM‟s useful tax planning and preparation reports.
Transaction Activity Report: the Transactions Activity Report compiles important information regarding the individual transaction entries for a portfolio, or for a single security a within a portfolio. The report can be also customized and filtered by transaction type (i.e., purchases, sales, etc.).
Upside-Downside Report: one of BetterInvesting‟s classic measures of risk for a stock is it‟s upside-downside ratio (U/D), a measure of how much gain might be expected if things go right, as compared to how much might be lost if things go wrong.
o BetterInvesting™ is a not-for-profit, volunteered based investor education organization that was founded during the 1950s (www.BetterInvesting.org).
Portfolio Allocation Reports: the Portfolio Allocation Reports compile portfolio asset allocation by asset class, industry sector, and stock size. The reports include the proportional impact of all of the securities held in the portfolio, including mutual funds and exchange traded funds. This ability provides a clear understanding of how securities interrelate, as well as how portfolios interrelate (when reporting on combinations of portfolios). Fund Objectives Report: this report shows isolates mutual funds and
exchange traded funds for the selected portfolios and segregates the information by fund objective.
Portfolio Performance Report: the Portfolio Performance Report calculates the Internal Rate of Return for individual assets as well as for the entire portfolio. The information provided on the Portfolio Performance Report depends on whether the report is calculated since the portfolio inception (i.e., include all activity dates starting with the earliest date) or it can be customized for a date range or “as-of”, or “from-to, dates (see Historic Asset Library for available dates).
Portfolio Summary Report: this report provides IRR information in a different format. The information contained on the Portfolio Summary Report includes Portfolio Beginning Market Value, additions and withdrawal to portfolio, realized and unrealized gain or loss (for the period), along with ending market value. Return of capital transactions, expenses and services charges, and security transfers are also included.
(Note: additional reports available – check File Menu | Preferences | Advanced tab)
o Assets Under Management Report (Advanced Mode): the Assets Under
Management Report is a two-page report that summarizes important details for multiple portfolios being monitored in Investment Account Manager. o Capital Gain Distributions: this IAM audit report is a useful tax-planning
tool, summarizing the gain distributions received by securities in your portfolio. This report includes details on gains as the result of merger transactions
involving cash and stock distributions.
Additional Reports (Audit Reports)
o Commissions and Expenses: the Commissions & Expenses Report
summarizes the commissions and expenses paid for the portfolio‟s transactions.
o Exchanges, Mergers & Spin-offs: these complicated transactions are often
not properly accounted for by investors, particularly when several portfolios are involved, and or multiple purchase lots are held. IAM accurately
accounts for exchanges, spin-offs, and mergers across multiple portfolios and for multiple purchase lots. The Exchanges, Mergers &
Spin-offs Report summarizes the information for these transactions, and is an excellent audit tool to verify transaction records.
o Fund Diversification Characteristics: this audit report is actually a series of
individual reports showing the detailed fund characteristics for each mutual fund and ETF held in a portfolio.
o Fund Performance Comparison: the Fund Performance Comparison
Report compiles performance comparison information for the various fund securities held in a given portfolio, or combination of portfolios.
o Qualified Dividends: the Qualified Dividends Audit Report is a useful
tax-planning tool, showing if the dividends received by the portfolio are either qualified or non-qualified, as required by the 2003 tax law changes. o Security Search: the Security Search Report was designed for investors
managing multiple portfolios within Investment Account Manager. It is designed to locate and report on securities held in multiple portfolios.
o Transfers: the Transfers Report is a useful tax-planning tool, summarizing the
security transfers received into and or transferred out of a Investment Account Manager portfolio. This report is very useful for instance, if you have gifted securities to another party.
o Wash Sales Check List: the Wash Sale Check List finds all securities that
have been sold recognizing a capital loss, and identifies when the IRS Wash Sale period expires.
Asset Library Menu: (see R5 for greater details)
Current Asset Library: the Current Asset Library stores the most recently updated data for all of the assets within Investment Account Manager. This database shares this information globally by all portfolios within Investment Account Manager. It contains the general information about securities held in the various individual portfolios. It includes data items like security name, symbol, type, recent market price, dividend rate, earnings per share, etc. Note: recall that the individual portfolios hold their specific transactional data and reference the Current Asset Library for general asset information.
Historical Prices: the Historic Asset Library stores the historical security data, separated by date. This database is a compilation of the date entries you create, each storing pricing and other data for that specific date. These dates then become available for use on the IAM reports when selecting a time frame for the report. Reports can be generated „as of‟ a specific historical date and can be created for a
„from-to‟ historical period of time.
Price Alerts: the Price Alert feature found in Investment Account Manager will allow you to enter target prices for, the securities you are tracking. You'll be automatically notified once a target price has been reached for one or more issues. Those securities that have exceeded their high alert limit will be shown in green those securities that have fallen below their low alert limit will be shown in red. Update Data: updating data from one of several data sources add another helpful
dimension to Investment Account Manager.
o Market Prices from Internet - Investment Account Manager accesses 20
minute delay pricing from Yahoo® Finance‟s free delayed quotes. Be
Asset Library Menu
Current and Historical Asset Libraries
certain to carefully review prices. They are intended for informational purposes only, and are not guaranteed.
o AAII Stock Investor Pro Data - If you subscribe to AAII‟s Stock
Investor Pro software from the American Association of Individual Investors, you‟ll be able to utilize the SSG data files found on your SI Pro disk for updating common stocks in IAM.
Tools Menu: (see reference R6 for greater details)
Calculator: the Calculator tool is a Investment Account Manager pop-up utility that can help you quickly verify numerical totals for investment transactions or perform other mathematical calculations while using Investment Account Manager.
Calendar: the calendar tool allows users to record important information in the calendar. For example, you can set alert to inform you when a holding period becomes long-term, when a security trades "ex-dividend", or when you expect an important event to occur (i.e. an earnings announcement, etc.). Investment Account Manager will alert you when the when you reach a noted date in your calendar.
Portfolio Diagnostic: the Portfolio Diagnostic Tool will scan all portfolios in Investment Account Manager, identifying discrepancies in share amounts (or quantities) that exist between the quantity shown on IAM reports and the quantity calculated on the Portfolio Activity Ledger.
Rebuild Data: use the Rebuild Data choice to repair data files and indexes in the event you are experiencing problems, or if error messages begin to appear while using Investment Account Manager. This choice attempts to repair corrupted files resulting from improper shut-down of the program (power failure, system failure, system lock-up, abnormal shut-down, etc).
View Error Log: if a program error occurs while using Investment Account Manager, an entry of the error is automatically created in the error log. If a program error occurs, please send this information to our technical support department for suggestions on how to correct the error.
Windows Menu:
This menu choice will toggle on/or off depending on the feature and view currently being used. It provides preference choices for users as to the method of displaying the currently open windows in Investment Account Manager. If you have made a
selection for changing the windows view, and would like to revert to your previous settings, Select the File Menu | Exit choice to close IAM. The next time you start the program IAM will open in the normal view.
Help Menu: (see reference R7 for greater details)
Contents: the Investment Account Manager online help system is designed to be a useful reference tool offering detailed explanations, definitions, and tips to help you get answers to your questions.
Product Support: the best place to find answers to your questions is to use Investment Account Manager‟s detailed help system. Select the Help Menu then Contents to display the system help. Next try our website site:
www.investmentaccountmanager.com. If you have a technical question that you can‟t answer with the provided tools, please contact our Technical Support department. You must be a registered user in order to receive product support with an active technical support agreement, or running a 45 day trial version of IAM.
Check for Updates: use this choice to automatically verify if you are currently running the latest version of Investment Account Manager. You‟ll be notified as to whether or not you have the current version. If not you‟ll be prompted to download the latest file.
Suggestion Box: if you have suggestions for improving Investment Account Manager, click the suggestion box icon to contact us. We welcome user ideas, comments, suggestions, etc. Thank you in andvance.
About Investment Account Manager: this screen indicates the current version of Investment Account Manager that you are using.
How to ... Guides and Flowcharts: this menu choice offers users a variety of how to guides, tips, and flow charts to improve your use of Investment Account Manager.
Investment Account Manager Manual: use this choice to open the Investment Account Manager Manual in PDF (Portable Document Format) for printing purposes. You‟ll need to have the necessary program for opening and reading PDF files for this option to work.
Check for Updates
Use this choice to automatically verify if you are currently running the latest version of Investment Account Manager. You‟ll be notified as to whether or not you have the current version. If not you‟ll be prompted to download the latest file.
Tool Bars
Investment Account Manager‟s tool bar provides quick access to some program‟s frequently used common features.
Quick Transactions: use this choice to quickly enter your portfolio‟s
transactions. This process skips entry via the Transactions Ledger, and provides a quicker method for manually entering buys, sells, etc.
Update Prices: use this choice to retrieve and update prices for securities within Investment Account Manager‟s Current Asset Library. This selection will quickly update security prices for issues included in the Investment Account Manager Asset library from the Internet. (Note: IAM utilizes free 20 minute delayed pricing as provided by Yahoo!™ Finance. Currently, this free data is available for common stocks, some preferred stocks, mutual funds, exchange traded funds, and options. If the data feed is unavailable, prices can also be manually update within the Asset Library, and/or previous closing prices for common stocks can be updated from QuoteMedia data subscription service).
Check for Updates
Tool Bars
Quick
Refresh Home Page: use this choice to recalculate the Home Page to reflect recent transaction activity or recent market prices. Note: select the File Menu | preferences | home page tab to set preferences for pricing options when the home page is refreshed.
Backup: use this choice to perform a backup of your investment data. Backing up your Investment Account Manager data files is essential and easy to accomplish. It is recommended that you rotate between at least two independent backup destination drives/disks as a precaution.
Portfolio Setup Wizard: the Portfolio Setup Wizard feature in Investment Account Manager. You will simply need either your most recent brokerage statement listing with accumulated shares and cost basis, or access to your brokerage account via your online financial institution providing OFX (Open Financial Exchange file format) data downloads. These methods for creating your portfolio will temporarily limit Investment Account Manager‟s ability to derive historical performance measurements and/or tax basis reports since account history has not been recorded. Note: You will however have the ability to enter any lot-by-lot details for your existing holdings. Additionally, you will be able to utilize many other features provided by IAM, such as the allocation tools, reporting tools, and investment record keeping tools, until you have the time to build
historically accurate portfolios.
Yahoo Quotes: use this choice to review current information for stocks, mutual funds, exchange traded funds, and indices that are included in your current asset library. If your security ticker list exceeds the maximum limit for the number of characters permitted in the url address (255), you might prefer to create a portfolio view on the Yahoo!™ Finance very informative web site so all tickers can be displayed.
Web Sites of Interest: use this choice to access previously defined web sites of interest. You are able to add, edit, or delete a site on this tool bar list by selecting the File Menu | preferences | Internet sites tab.
Portfolio Snapshot, Year to Date Activity, Portfolios
Portfolio Snapshot
o Current Value: the total current market value for the portfolio. You can
click on this link to create the Appraisal Report for the portfolio.
o Unrealized Gain/Loss: the total unrealized gain or loss for the portfolio.
o Estimated Income: the total estimated income for the portfolio.
o Last Date updated: date of last home page refresh.
Year to Date Activity:
o Investment Income: total investment income received for year-to-date
activity. You can click on this link to create the Income Received Report for the portfolio.
o Realized Gain/Loss: total of short-term and long-term capital gains
earned for year-to-date activity. You can click on this link to create the Sold Securities Report for the portfolio.
o Performance: the portfolio performance return, measured by the Internal
Rate of Return considers all investment flows occurring within the year-to-date period, for the portfolio. You can click on this link to create the Performance Report for the portfolio.
Home Page Explained
o vs. S&P 500: compares the performance results of the portfolio with the
performance results of the S&P 500 index. Portfolios:
o Shown are all the portfolios within the Investment Account Manager system. The currently open portfolio is shown with a check mark. You can easily switch between portfolios by placing your mouse pointer over a portfolio name, and then using a left-double click to select.
Depending on the Home Page view selection, you‟ll notice several tabs that can be selected to review specific information. This tab layout allows the easy navigation between different portfolio views. To move between tabs, simply click on the desired tab.
Portfolio Values Tab
The Portfolio Values Tab segregates securities according to type, and lists this information:
o Type: the designated asset type for the security, such as common stock,
mutual fund, etc.
o Security: the name or description of the asset.
o Quantity: the total quantity held of the security.
o Unit Cost: the average unit cost paid for all quantity held of the security.
o Total Cost: the total cost paid for all quantity held of the security.
o Market Price: the market price of the security.
Home Page Tabs
Portfolio Values Tab
o Market Value: the total market value for all quantity held of the security.
o Unrealized Gain/Loss: the total unrealized gain or loss for all quantity held
of the security.
o % Gain/Loss: the total percentage unrealized gain or loss for all quantity held
of the security.
Income Received Tab
The information contained on the Income Received Tab includes: o Security: the name or description of the asset.
o Taxable Interest: amount of taxable interest received.
o Taxable Dividends: amount of taxable dividends received.
o Non-Taxable Interest: amount of nontaxable interest received.
o Non-Taxable Dividends: amount of nontaxable dividends received.
o Short-Term Gain Distributions: amount of short-term capital gain
distributions received.
o Long-Term Gain Distributions: amount of long-term capital gain
distributions received.
o Other Income: amount of other income received.
Income Received Tab
Sold Securities Tab
The information contained on the Sold Securities Tab includes: o Security: the name or description of the asset.
o Acquisition Date: the purchase date of the security transaction lot.
o Sale Date: the sale date of the security transaction lot.
o Quantity: the total quantity sold of the security transaction lot.
o Total Cost: the total cost paid for the security transaction lot.
o Sale Proceeds: the total proceeds received for sold security transaction lot.
o Realized Gain/Loss: the total realized gain or loss for the sold security
transaction lot.
o % Gain/Loss: the total percentage realized gain or loss for the sold security
transaction lot.
Sold Securities Tab
Holdings Summary Tab
The Holdings Summary is a popular view showing the following information in sections within the window:
o Portfolio Holdings section: the percentage the security market value represents
of the total portfolio value; the market price of the security last updated in the current asset library; the total market value for all quantity held of the security. o Home Page | Portfolio Holdings section can be sorted on either Issue name
or % of Portfolio. Point your mouse over the column header and use a left double-click to sort by issue of % of portfolio.
o Report: click on this button to create the Portfolio Holdings Report for the
portfolio. Information included on this report includes: quantity held, total cost, current market value, percent of portfolio, unrealized gain or loss, and percent gain or loss.
Important Hint: if you place your mouse over a listed security, and
left-double click, you‟ll be connected to the Internet for online research. If you place your mouse over a listed security and right-click, a popup menu will show with several choices:
Asset Library: access the current asset library for the security.
Security Basis Report: quickly review each purchase record and total held of the security.
Security Price Alerts: review and update pre-set price targets for the security.
Holding Summary Tab
Home Page Pop-up Window
Security Transactions: open the transaction activity ledger, filtered for the selected security.
Investor‟s Toolkit 5: this choice enables you to open directly from within Investment Account Manager the matching SSG from your Investor‟s Toolkit 5 library to review your analysis for the selected company.
Manifest Investing: use this choice to create a Manifest Investing.com dashboard for the selected security.
Stock Analyst 3.2+: this choice enables you to open directly from within Investment Account Manager the matching SSG from your Stock Analyst v2.2 library to review your analysis for the selected company.
Toolkit 6: this choice enables you to open directly from within Investment Account Manager the matching SSG from your Toolkit 5 library to review your analysis for the selected company.
Yahoo!® Finance Company Summary: access Yahoo! Finance for timely information and news for the selected security.
o Portfolio Diversification Section: the portfolio diversification will show
diversification by asset type (note: if you place your mouse over a listed asset type, and
left-double click, you will hyperlink to a Appraisal Report for that asset type); the
percentage the asset type or industry/sector market value represents in relation to the total portfolio value; the total market value for all quantity held of the asset type or industry/sector.
o Report: clicking on this button will create the Portfolio Diversification
Report and Graph for the portfolio.
o Transaction Activity Section: the Transactions Activity shown on the home
page provides a quick review to activity entered into the current portfolio. Activity is listed oldest to newest, with most recent activity shown. You can scroll up or down this ledger to review past activity entered to the portfolio.
o Use the Report button to create the Transactions Activity Report for the reporting range selected. Use the Find Transactions drop down to locate a specific transaction previously entered by date, issue, or amount. Use the Add New Transaction choice to enter a new transaction to the current portfolio.
Date: the transaction date of the activity record. Security: the name of the security issue.
Activity: the type of activity.
Quantity: the amount of shares, quantity, etc. for the security transaction.
Unit Price: the unit cost paid or price received for the security transaction lot.
Amount: the total amount paid, received, etc. for the security transaction.
Allocation Summary Tab
The Allocation Summary Tab compiles summary allocation information for the portfolio, identifying allocation by asset class, sector, size and investment objective.
Asset Allocation: this tab shows portfolio allocation percentages by asset types held in the portfolio and a comparison to the target allocations you have entered. Target allocations should be defined based upon the investment objective of the portfolio. The portfolio compositions of any funds held
