PORTAX Software > Inputs > Assets Editor

The Assets Editor contains 17 different fields to control assets  in a portfolio.  Some of the key fields include:

 

Name
This is the asset or asset class name.

Market Value
This is the asset’s starting market value at the beginning of the first period.

Cost Basis
This is the asset’s starting cost basis at the beginning of the first period.  A cost basis less than the market value indicates an unrealized capital gain.  A cost basis greater than the market value indicates an unrealized capital loss.

Turnover
This is for managed assets and represents the percentage of managed buying and selling during a period.

Management Fee
This is cost for asset management in basis points.

Income Return
This is the expected before-tax income return portion of total return.

Capital Gains Return
This is the expected before-tax capital gains return portion of total return.

Income Standard Deviation
This is typically the total return standard deviation for reinvestment risk assets, although it can be apportioned.

Capital Gains Standard Deviation
This is typically the total return standard deviation for price risk assets, although it can be apportioned.

Short Term Gain
This is the percentage of capital appreciation apportioned to short term gain. It is usually set to match the turnover.

Tax Source
This controls whether the asset uses the internal tax tables or uses user specified tax rates.

Tax Authority
This selects the tax jurisdiction and its associated internal tax table rates for an asset.  Assets can be assigned to different tax jurisdictions.

      

PORTAX Assets Editor

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