Guide
Fixed Income
AssetView splits the acquisition of a fixed asset into two parts: asset entry and transaction entry.
Asset Entry
AssetView is built to track your fixed income assets. When entering a new fixed income asset, AssetView prompts you to enter:
- Label: friendly name for you to recognize the specific asset;
- ID: unique identifier
- Description: more information for you to fully describe the asset;
- Default Account: the account to which all future purchases of the asset will be assigned unless you override;
- State: active or planned asset;
- CUSIP: an industry defined identifier;
- Coupon %: rate of fixed payments;
- Interest Payment Frequency: defined the interval of payments;
- Maturity Date: the date of final redemption;
- Add Call: call provisions on the asset; and
- Asset Class: the specific asset class to which the asset will belong.
Buy Entry
When entering a fixed income asset purchase, AssetView prompts you to enter:
- Date: date of the transaction;
- Account: AssetView will present the default account which you may override;
- Basis: the accounting basis for lotting and taxation;
- Lot: Auto (automatically lot), New (create a new lot), Advanced (to manually create lots), or you may assign to an existing lot;
- Face value;
- Price: the price paid;
- Interest Catchup: interest paid to the previous owner for ownership during a partial period;
- Fee: e.g. brokerage fees;
- Description; and
- State: active, pending, or planned.
AssetView then shows you a summary of the:
- Market Value;
- Premium (price paid which is more or less than the face value);
- Cash Flow (including the price, interest catchup and fees); and
- Yields (potential).
Sale Entry
- Date: date of the transaction;
- Account: AssetView will present the default account which you may override;
- Basis: the accounting basis for lotting and taxation;
- Lot: Auto (automatically lot), New (create a new lot), Advanced (to manually create lots), or you may assign to an existing lot;
- Face value;
- Price: the price paid;
- Interest Catchup: interest paid to the previous owner for ownership during a partial period;
- Fee: e.g. brokerage fees;
- Description; and
- State: active, pending, or planned.
AssetView then shows you a summary of the:
- Market Value;
- Premium (price paid which is more or less than the face value);
- Cash Flow (including the price, interest catchup and fees); and
- Yields (achieved).
Dashboard and Structured View
On the Dashboard for a Fixed Income asset and on the Structured View when you select Fixed Income, AssetView calculates and displays details on your:
- Investment components;
- Maturity;
- Interest; and
- Yields.
On a Fixed Income asset page, AssetView also allows you to enter an offer price on the asset as of a specified date. AssetView then calculates a yield.