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Assette Statements™, Assette Presentations™ and Assette Portfolio Access™
 

Assette's standard software caters to investment firms with sophisticated client reporting needs. Push data to Assette from Advent Axys®, Advent Portfolio Exchange® (APX) or Schwab PortfolioCenter®, augment with information from FactSet®, BondEdge® or Excel®, and easily create client reports in multiple output formats.
 
Assette's standard software provides an enhanced set of features and best-practice report templates out-of-the-box. You can update templates to suit your exact branding requirements or have Assette match complex brand identities. The template content can be altered to suit your exact reporting requirements or new templates can be easily created using an expanded report object library. Assette can even program custom objects and templates to meet any unique reporting requirements.
 
 

Assette EasyReports™
 

A streamlined version of Assette's standard software suite, Assette EasyReports, caters to advisors with straight-forward client reporting needs. Push data to Assette from Advent Axys® or Schwab PortfolioCenter®, import certain fund data from Excel, and easily create client reports.
 
Assette EasyReports provides a basic set of features and best-practice report templates right out-of-the-box. You can update the look-and-feel of the templates to suit your branding needs. The template content may be re-organized to suit your requirements or new templates can be easily created using pre-defined report objects.
 
 
"Standard" Products "Easy" Products
Report Objects and Templates1 Pre-defined and custom.  You may change pre-defined templates or create new ones using an extensive report object library. Pre-packaged. You may change pre-packaged templates or create new ones using a limited report object library.
Branding Use your own logo, font type, chart colors, template borders and backgrounds plus the ability to have Assette custom develop complex brand identities. Use your own logo, font type, chart colors, template borders and backgrounds.
Object  Library Extensive Limited
Ability to Customize Object Settings at Account-Level2 Yes No
Maximum Number of Report Templates Unlimited 10
Number of Accounts Unlimited 5,000
Supported Portfolio Accounting Systems Advent Axys®, Advent Portfolio Exchange® (APX), Schwab PortfolioCenter® Advent Axys®, Schwab PortfolioCenter®
Supported Analytics Systems FactSet® and BondEdge® Only import of certain fund data via Excel®
Custom Programming Yes Objects only (must be supported by data discussed above)
   
Output formats:
  PDF Yes (Assette Statements) Yes (Assette EasyReports)
  PowerPoint Yes (Assette Presentations) Optional Add-on
  Web Yes (Assette Portfolio Access) No
   
Quarterly Report Delivery:
  Download (email and/or print and mail in-house) Yes Yes
  Seamless Integration with Assette Web Portal Products Yes - with Assette Portfolio Access Optional
  Email Directly from Application Yes No
  Outsource Printing and Mailing to Assette Yes Yes
   
Storing and Reporting of:
  Characteristics Equity and fixed income characteristics from FactSet®, BondEdge® or portfolio accounting system for accounts and indices Limited fixed income characteristics from Advent Axys®, only for accounts
  Attribution/Contribution (FactSet® and BondEdge® Data) Yes No
  Composite Returns and Other Composite Data Yes No
  Returns Periods 40 pre-defined periods and ability to create custom periods (i.e. Fiscal Year-to-Date) 20 pre-defined periods typically used in client reporting.
  Daily Returns Yes, if you calculate in the portfolio accounting system No
  Asset Class-level Returns Yes, if you calculate in the portfolio accounting system Yes, if you calculate in the portfolio accounting system
  Sector-level Returns Yes, if you calculate in the portfolio accounting system or an analytics system No
  Other Excel®-based Data Unlimited Limited data relating to funds
  Multi-Currency Yes No
   
Ability to Upload and Display:
  Buy/Sell Rationale at Security Level Yes No
  Sector Descriptions and Exposure Rationale Yes No
  External Slides (account-specific information from other systems) Yes No
   
Data Extraction and Retention:
  Extraction and Loading Frequency Monthly, with daily optional Monthly, with daily optional
  Retention Period - Snapshots3 6 3
  Retention Period - Trailing Data4 24 months 12 months
       
 
 

1 Report objects consist of charts, tables, and labels. Objects are place-holders for actual data.  Examples of chart objects are asset allocation, sector diversification, performance, etc.  Table object examples are asset allocation, top holdings, performance, purchases and sales, etc.  Labels are place-holders for account name, contact information, reporting date, etc.  Report templates consist of above objects.

2 Assette's "Standard" products enable you to link one template to multiple accounts, and then customize this template for each account  (customize at account-level).  Example: The "Detailed Quarterly Report" template displays top holdings on page 3.  Certain clients need top 5 holdings while others require top 10 holdings.  You can link the "Detailed Quarterly Report" template to multiple accounts, and for each account, specify the number of holdings that should be displayed. You do not need to create separate templates with each showing a different number of top holdings.  With "Easy" products, you are required to create a separate template with each displaying a different number of top holdings, and then associate each template to the applicable accounts – template with top 5 holdings to accounts that require top 5 holdings, and template with top 10 holdings to accounts that need top 10 holdings, and so on.  In either case, Assette allows you to provide customized information to your clients.

3 A data snapshot is a “cut” of data as it existed on a particular date.  For example, a snapshot as of 06/30 retains all your data – account information, returns, holdings, transactions, etc. – as it existed at the end of the second quarter.  Assette can store multiple snapshots of your data.

4 Trailing data consists of time series data such as transactions and gains/losses.  This type of data is retained on a trailing basis from each snapshot.  As time progresses, data beyond the retention period is deleted at the tail end.  The same retention policy also applies to documents such as quarterly reports, market commentaries, etc. stored on the web portal products.


 
 
 
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