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Here are some tips when filtering contracts and where relevant, funds: You can see everything you are currently filtering on and why specific contracts/funds are being excluded by using the Audit Trail If you make a recommendation to a client whi...
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When performing research into some products (mostly price-led contracts such as term assurance, CIC etc.), Synaptic provides the valuable option of retrieving live quotations so that you can perform research using features AND pricing at the sam...
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If a fund has an ethical policy, its factsheet will include a green marker at the bottom of the first section which gives the basic details of the fund. This is illustrated and highlighted in the first screenshot. Clicking on the link in this bo...
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If, when doing research for a particular product, you always choose the same basic criteria then you could save yourself time and set these up as Preset Criteria . Presets can be set up on a Personal basis (just for you to use) or a Company basis ...
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How to check that providers and products are enabled in your panel
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As well as – or instead of – filtering on sectors, you can also eliminate contracts which do not offer specific linked funds. The functionality for doing this is at the bottom of the sectors list. In the first screenshot, contracts are being eli...
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Synaptic Research provides a wide range of fund graphs, see below. (Please note that firms who have only subscribed to Synaptic Research’s product module only have access to the annual performance graph.) Cumulative performance Monthly premium ...
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Synaptic Research covers all the life, pension and investment products which can be sold by independent financial advisers in the UK. The standard data available through the system is as follows, and is subject to frequent change in the light of in...
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There are 7 tabs at the top of the screen that you can choose from: Clients - where you can add or retrieve client details. Risk rating - Risk rated funds and portfolios Modeller - an investment planning and risk profiling tool. Comparato...
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Once you have defined your ranking scheme, and clicked on Calculate, the system displays the resulting league table as illustrated by the screenshot below. This consists of a tab showing the overall scores for each contract, and then a separate tab...