Re: Accurate overlays and performance reports

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In Reply to: Re: Accurate overlays and performance reports posted by Mark on January 27, 2005 at 09:36:30:

: : Hi Mark

: : Could you please advise on a question about portfolio overlay comparisons..

: : In my portfolio I keep an investment which I want to use as a benchmark. It is a fund in which I have not invested.

: : This benchmark fund makes distributions periodically which I have to record if I want meaningful comparisons with my portfolio.

: : But the thing is, once I record distributions for the benchmark, my Portfolio Performance report is then affected - it is inaccurate because of these distributions (I haven't received them, they're only there for comparison purposes).

: : How can I achieve both these aims.. a meaningful comparison for my portfolio, and an accurate portfolio performance report?

: : Thanks for help.

:
: Hi Wesley,

: There are 2 different ways you can accomplish this:

: 1) Don't own any shares of the benchmark investment. When you record the
: distribution, record it for a Value of $0. You will be prompted for
: what distribution/share to use, since you don't own any shares. Record
: the correct (non-zero) dist/share.

: 2) Place any benchmark investments in their own sub-portfolio, not
: included in the portfolio you want the accurate report for. For example,
: you could have this:

: Top Port
: |
: - - - > Indices
: |
: - - - > My Port

: That way, when you create the portfolio performance report, create it
: for the "My Port" sub-portfolio, and it won't include any of the
: benchmark investments in the "Indices" sub-portfolio.

: Thanks,
: Mark

Thankyou very much Mark for your reply. Your suggestions work a treat.

All the best.

Replies:

• Re: Accurate overlays and performance reports jeffrey 09:46:18 02/24/05 (4)
  • Re: Accurate overlays and performance reports Mark 09:42:58 02/28/05 (2)
    • Re: Accurate overlays and performance reports jeffrey 23:53:49 04/13/05 (1)
      • Re: Accurate overlays and performance reports Mark 10:50:20 04/14/05 (0)
  • Re: Accurate overlays and performance reports faith 21:09:37 02/25/05 (0)
• Re: Accurate overlays and performance reports Faith 16:43:19 01/29/05 (0)