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Toogood Newsletter - November 2010

Welcome!
 
Welcome to the fall edition of the Toogood newsletter, designed to keep you, our valued client, informed about growth and progress at Toogood Financial Systems Inc.
 
Ideas or suggestions for future topics in the " Information - Questions" section  can be sent to support@toogood.com.
 
Enjoy the fall edition; we look forward to hearing from you!
 
 
Inside This Issue
 
1    President’s Perspective
2    Introduction of Entity Display Restrictions
3    Evolution Highlights
4    Information - Questions
  

President’s Perspective

As always, Toogood Financial Systems Inc. and its staff would like to thank our clients for continued support and encouragement.

 
With the festive season approaching, it marks the end of another year where Toogood has made strides to enhance the application and our client base. 
 
We are pleased to note that a few of our clients have extended the use of our application to specialized areas of the market:  
        • Family Office practice
        • Precious Metal fund and bullion practice
        • Public unitized fund and unit-holder recordkeeping practices
Toogood Financial Systems Inc. would like to extend our well wishes for the holidays and a happy new year. 
 
  
 
Raymond Oh, President
905.886.2545 x233
 
  
Introduction of Entity Display Restrictions 
The Entity Display Restrictions functionality provides the ability to set up viewing restrictions to account sets, security models, asset mix models, and investment policy mixes.  These types of data are referred to as entities.  In the future, we may expand the Display Restrictions functionality to other entities.
 
Viewing restrictions limit the entities displayed in grids and drop-down selectors.  The benefit of viewing restrictions is the customizing of the drop-down selectors to an individual's items of interest.  For example, a person could limit the account sets to those they have created, thus eliminating the display of all of the account sets available.
 
The Entity Display Restrictions functionality limits the display of entities to one user or a group of users.  The concept of 'user groups' is introduced to permit the display restrictions to be applied to a group of people, thereby facilitating the ease of management of display entities.  For example, a particular Portfolio Manager and Assistant could be considered a 'group' and, as such, would have display access to all of the accounts managed by the Portfolio Manager and all of the security models created by either the Portfolio Manager or the Assistant.
  
For additional information on the Entity Display Restrictions functionality, the Evolution Entity Display Restrictions User Guide is available upon request.
 
 
Evolution Highlights
 
The next version of Evolution contains many enhancements.  Here are a few highlights:
 
GIPS Composite Compliance - features added 
  • Enhanced Composite Maintenance to capture full audit history of an account in a composite
  • Two new Performance reports for GIPS Composite Return reporting: Composite By Year and Composite Dispersion
Index– new functionality   
  • Ability to set up and maintain stock market indices and their associated market weights
  • New Generic Index Import to allow for the import of security weights within an index

Security Maintenance  – expanded functionality

  • Ability to maintain and modify data: Beta, Outstanding Shares, Market Float, and Market Value
  • Two new Generic Import file formats: Generic Security Market Value Import and Generic Security Outstanding Shares Import
Information on all enhancements will be available in the upcoming 3.24 Release Notes document.  
 
 
Information - Questions
 
This section explores features and functions, which may be undiscovered or queried by experienced Evolution operations.
 
The emphasis for this issue is on modifying the inception date of blended benchmarks.
 
Q: If a Blended Benchmark's inception date is presently set as December 31st, 2004, can we change this to June 30th, 2003 and then recalculate?
 
A: You can simply select the "12/31/2004" entry on the display grid, and press the "Delete Item" button on the lower part of the grid.  This is followed by pressing the "Save" button.  This removes December 31st, 2004 as the inception date.
 
To set June 30th, 2003 as the new inception date, press the "New Item" button, and add in your new date entry.  Follow this by pressing the "Save Value for Blended Benchmark" button. 
 
 
 
 
  

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Toogood Financial Systems Inc.
1725 Sixteenth Avenue
Suite 100
Richmond Hill, ON
Canada L4B 0B3

Tel: 905.886.2545
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