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  1. What are the benefits of using Synaptic Research?

    The key elements for financial advisers are clearly researching recommendations to clients, and generating documentation to support a recommendation: The key benefits to financial advisers are as follows: Speed and ease of use, but in a system wh...
  2. How do I start a piece of research?

    You start a new piece of research by choosing a product type on the software’s Home page. This displays the client-entry screen illustrated by the first screenshot. You can then choose between two types of research:  ·            ...
  3.  Funds from a specific promoter and specific contract

    This video provides a walkthrough of how to conduct research using a specific fund promoter or by selecting funds linked to a specific contract. All information contained within this video is fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or d...
  4. What information is in the fund factsheets?

    Fund factsheets show four types of information about a fund: Basic details such as management group, sector, and fund size. Past performance, including derived functions of past performance such as quartile rankings, alpha FE Crown ratings. Ass...
  5. Can I create an audit trail?

    The audit trail records all the contracts and criteria that has been selected. It clearly shows what contracts have been excluded and what criteria selected excluded them. The audit trail is only available in the Filtering screen and can be access ...
  6. Why does quote prices sometimes differ between Webline and providers?

    When you first register with Webline, any quotations you request will, by default, be requested from the insurers with 100% commission (i.e. no commission sacrificed). It is possible to set the value of commission you would like from each product p...
  7. How is the quartile ranking graph calculated?

    The quartile ranking graph shows a plot of a fund’s quartile rankings within each discrete 12-month period. In the first example screenshot below, the fund has been a top-quartile performer in 7 out of the 10 periods. A similar plot...
  8. Is there a limit on concurrent users?

    Your firm may have a limit on the maximum number of people who are allowed to use the system at the same time. You will see an error message (like the one illustrated by the screenshot below) if you try to log on when the cap has already been reache...
  9. How does Synaptic deal with contract data?

    Synaptic does not just copy “brochure” text out of a contract’s Key Features document. All data is analysed, and expressed quantitatively where possible – e.g. three detailed, filterable fields rather than a single field containing brochure text. ...
  10. Manually selecting the contracts to research

    The section above describes how the grid of contracts can be filtered to remove contracts which don’t meet particular conditions. However, it’s also possible to select manually the contracts which you want to research – either instead of, or as wel...