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Pooled funds are a strategy for managing portfolios for a group
of investors. We hear many
different names for this strategy, including Common Trust Fund, Pooled Income
Fund,
Investment Club, Investment Partnership, and Pooled Investment Fund. There are
legal
differences between all of these entities, but the processing objective is the
same.
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Advantages of using a pooled fund: |
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- You can separate the function of assessing the risk tolerance of each investor from
the function of selecting appropriate assets for that risk tolerance. This opens the door
for you to hire outside managers for some of the pools if you want to leverage expertise
above that in your office.
- If you hire managers who specialize in each investment style that you want to offer,
you get tremendous economies of scale by asking the manager to work with a pooled
portfolio rather than many separate ones.
- Since the results of each manager’s investment choices are centralized in one
account, it is easy to measure performance against an appropriate benchmark.
- Many accounts can have ownership of a single portfolio, resulting in fewer
transactions. The single portfolio is easier to monitor than many
individual ones.
- Smaller trusts can participate in an actively managed diversified portfolio.
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TrustNet is an excellent platform for administering
pooled funds. |
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- You would set up an account in TrustNet for each fund so there is a place to record
the securities and transactions.
- You would set up an asset in TrustNet for each fund so there is a way for the
investors to own shares in the pooled fund.
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The NAV Calculator includes two programs: |
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- NAV Cross-Reference Maintenance allows you to link the account number with the
CUSIP for each of your pooled funds.
- Calculate NAV adds up the market value for each security held by the fund and
divides by the number of shares owned to get a NAV (net asset value).
This is the price at which investors would buy and sell shares. The program
automatically records the new NAV in the price history file and prints a recap of the
ten most recent prices for easy trend comparison.
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Some types of pooled funds need more sophisticated and complex NAV
calculation. This
program provides a platform for custom additions to fit the
specifications of those funds.
Some offices calculate an NAV monthly, which means that investors are
allowed to buy and
sell at the beginning of each month. Other offices calculate the NAV
more often. No matter
what your timing policy is, the process is the same. |
BENEFITS:
The NAV Calculator adds value to the core system by … |
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- making it easy to manage many types of pooled funds.
- accurately calculating the share price for a fund.
- reducing administrative costs compared with individually managed portfolios.
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COMPLEMENTARY MODULES:
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- Interactive Data Pricing is an easy way to import the values for individual securities
before calculating the NAV for the pooled fund.
- Individually Registered Broker or Custodian Interface makes it easy to pull the transactions for each manager into TrustNet.
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