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Application Features

Black Diamond’s Internet application www.bdreporting.com is feature-rich and designed to make navigation and information retrieval intuitive and flexible.  The following features are available through www.bdreporting.com.

• Daily Returns
  Performance data can be extremely meaningful as long as it’s reported on a timely basis.  All transactional data collected by Black Diamond is processed daily.  Reconciled performance returns are typically available the next business day between 7:00AM ET and 11:00AM ET, barring any significant data irregularities.  This allows you to closely monitor market events and their impact on your portfolios.  Also, by calculating returns on a daily basis, your asset positions, accounts and portfolios are revalued daily.  This eliminates the need for estimating the impact of cash flows during a performance reporting period.
  
  
• Flexible Reporting Levels
  Monitor your client’s investments in the most sensible, efficient way to maximize wealth management growth.  For each feature in the application and client reports, you can view your performance data at virtually any level necessary by utilizing advisor, manager, portfolio, investment goal, investment style and account grouping.  Multiple levels are grouped together to display performance that is meaningful to you and your clients.
  
  
• Ad Hoc and Batch Client Report Creation
  Create client reports on demand in a PDF format that are designed specifically for you.  Show your clients how their investments are performing in a timely manner in the format that allows you to tell your story most effectively.  Additionally, view archived PDF’s for reference for historical reporting and compliance purposes.
  
  
• Composite Reporting and Maintenance
  Composites that facilitate compliance with the Association for Investment Management and Research Performance Presentation Standards (AIMR-PPS®) and the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®) allow you to show potential clients historical performance attributed to a specific investment style (i.e. Large Cap Value).  Black Diamond allows you to create these composites based on your individual investment styles.  Our application tracks movement of accounts in and out of composites, while notating the reason for the movement.  Dispersion analysis and disclosure items are included on all composites.
  
  
• Cost Basis Tracking and Tax Lot Entry
  Keep track of the cost basis and all tax lots attributed to each account's holdings.  Track realized and unrealized gain/loss separately as well as long term and short term gains and losses.  Our tax lot entry page allows you to manually add, delete or edit any individual tax lot saving you time and effort tracking this information separately.
  
  
• Easy-to-Use, Customizable Home Page
  Your home page can act as a snapshot of a particular portfolio, with immediate access to other portfolios, or as a snapshot of your book of business, complete with allocation graphs, graphical returns over time and top holdings.  This customizable layout provides you with a quick, time efficient view of your portfolios' performance.  You can also navigate to existing PDF reports that have been created or saved Advisor Reports via Quicklinks.
  
  
• Outside Asset Reporting
  Tracking outside assets is integral to giving your clients a complete picture of their investment portfolio.  Add outside assets such as annuities, hedge fund positions, etc. via our user interface to update the values of these positions and track gain/loss and net additions.
  
  
• Client Billing
  Save time and energy by using Black Diamond for all your client billing needs.  Bill your clients by basis points using customized features, such as excluding outside assets and adjusted basis point fees based on specific account makeup criteria (i.e. held away, allocation parameters, etc.).  Billing reports can either be produced and delivered with the client performance reports or separately exported as data to a spreadsheet application (i.e. Microsoft Excel).
  
  
• Advisor Reports
  Take control of internal management of portfolios, accounts, advisors and money managers with a dynamic, data query engine that displays returns over time.  You’ll have the ability to customize date ranges, return columns (gain/loss, benchmark returns, net additions, benchmark difference) and column sorting.  Cash flow and asset class/segment/asset exposure reports are available to track account movements and potential volatility issues.
  
  
• Target Reporting
  Set up customized targets that allow you to closely track returns that deviate from target asset class/segment allocation.  Using attribution analysis, you can determine if the return difference is due to allocation, asset selection or market timing.  Targets may be assigned to any level of reporting and viewed against a benchmark that depicts the market returns over time based on target selections.
  
  
• Benchmark Tracking
  Use market indices to track your asset classes and segments against market movement.  Combine indices to create target benchmarks whose allocations will remain the same regardless of portfolio or account allocation.  Dynamically allocated benchmarks will be created for every reporting level based on the underlying asset allocation.  These dynamic benchmarks are revalued every day.  Benchmark difference reporting is also available to highlight market beaters and laggards.
  
  
• Drill Down
  Too much data and information on a report or screen becomes overwhelming to the user and renders much of the information on the page meaningless.  With that in mind, Black Diamond Performance Reporting™ allows you to take in pieces of information and “drill down” through the selected return or allocation to receive more information about the selected item.  This feature allows you to view the information that you're looking for in a clear concise manner, but then retrieve more information at the click of the mouse button.  The drill down functionality also features a “bread crumb” trail that allows you to quickly jump back to the previous page when drilling down.
  
  

For a complete demonstration of all of the features Black Diamond has to offer, please contact us via e-mail or by calling us at (904) 241-2444 to set up an online walk-through or to schedule an onsite meeting.