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BetterInvesting Portfolio Manager

Improving Portfolio Management DecisionsCreated by: QUANT IX SOFTWARE, Inc.

Revised: July, 2008

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Improving Portfolio Management and Investment Decision Making

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Portfolio Management islike gardening

Design

Select

Maintain

Harvest


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Topics : Managing Multiple PortfoliosEntering Global Transactions

Fundamental Analysis Tools

Asset AllocationInternet Tools

Effective Tax Decisions

Other Features

How BetterInvesting Portfolio Manager helps


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Managing multiple portfolios: centralized, securemanagement of all your investment accounts

Ability to track an unlimited number of portfolios

Portfolios are unique, each with its own transaction

database Portfolios segregated by:

o Owner

o By objective

o By financial institution

Portfolios easily combined for collective reporting


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Collectively monitor your accounts

PortfolioManagerprovides multiple

portfoliotracking.

Manage youraccountscollectively,

withoutlimitations.


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Combination reporting: a customized view

Select which portfolios and which asset types to include on a report.


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Combined reports provide important information

A reportshowing acombinationof Joes

accountsboth histaxableportfolio andhis IRA.


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Combined reports provide important information

Shown here,one of theallocationreports,

summarizingboth of Joesaccounts.


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Other Features


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Entering global transactions

Global

transactions are

those that affect

each portfolio

holding a specificsecurity

Portfolio

Manager adjusts

each security, in

each portfolio, ona lot-by-lot basis

Accuracy, with efficiency, saves time for decision making.


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Global transactions are applied to all portfoliosholding the issuer of:

Income a cash dividend (i.e., quarterly cash dividend paid)

Stock split a stock split (i.e., 2 for 1 stock split)

Stock dividend distribution a stock dividend (i.e., 10% dividend

distribution)

Spin-off a corporate reorganization ( Company A issues shares in

Company B)

Merger a corporate reorganization (Company C acquires Company D)


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Example several portfolios hold a companyissuing a stock split (for illustrative purposes only)

All portfolioswithinPortfolio

Manager arequickly andaccuratelyadjusted


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Example several portfolios hold a companyissuing a corporate spin-off (for illustrative purposes only)


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Entering global transactions

Accurate record keeping is an essential element for effective portfolio management.With Portfolio Managers global transaction abilities, youll spend less time number

crunching, leaving more time for investment decision making.


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Using Security Watch Lists

Effective Tax DecisionsOther Features


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Using Portfolio Managers Fundamental Analysis

Tools

Fundamental security analysis to evaluate a firm and its investment

potential based on the firms financial strength, earnings potential,

management, and its sensitivity to both its industry sector and theoverall economy.

Fundamental analysis involves overall market analysis, industry sector

analysis, specific company analysis, and portfolio management.


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Importing fundamental data from BetterInvesting

Automatically download S&P stock data from BetterInvesting

S&P Stock Data Service online access to CompuStat financial

data provided by S&P on over 7,000 publicly traded companies


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Utilizing fundamental data for ratio analysis

This table

shows several

of the

valuation

ratios derived

within Portfolio

Manager

(Asset Library)


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Screening and sorting securities based onfundamental data

The asset library can

be sorted based on

any of the valuation

ratios.

Here we demonstrate

the list sorted on

dividend yield,

highest to lowest.


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Other Features


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Asset Allocation and Portfolio Diversification

Asset Allocation

Combining asset classes such as stocks, bonds, and cash in a

portfolio in order to meet your investment objectives

Portfolio Diversification

Spreading portfolio assets over sufficient number of securities to

avoid excessive risk from any one security

Common stocks should be diversified by industry sector andcompany size


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Importing allocation and diversification datafrom BetterInvesting

Importing

BetterInvesting

Mutual Fund

Resource Center

data updatesPortfolio Manager

with important

characteristics of

your funds for

asset allocation,diversification and

performance

analysis


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Asset Allocation and Portfolio Diversification

Important point: Portfolio Manager will show the proportional impact of all securities

within your portfolios, include your mutual funds asset allocation and diversification

characteristics. This ability

Provides true asset allocation and diversification analysis

Identifies rebalancing needs


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Setup your portfolio allocation targets

Portfolio Manager allows you

to set your portfolio target

allocations ( File Menu |

Portfolios | Portfolio Targets)

These targets are used to

compare your objectives

with the actual allocation

Use the Guidelines to

download data for the

composition of the S&P 500


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Compare your targets to actual allocation and diversification: herean overall summary of the portfolio.


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Compare your targets to actual allocation and diversification: here alook at the portfolios different asset classes.


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Analyze your targets to actual allocation and diversification: here bystock industry.


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Compare your targets to actual allocation and diversification: hereby stock size.


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Other Features


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Using the Internet with Portfolio Manager

Internet research

Quick access to useful web

sites

o BetterInvestings Online

Stock Selection Guide

(SSG)

o BetterInvestings

Company Report

o Yahoo! Finance

From Portfolio Managers home page,

right click access to any security listed

under Portfolio Holdings section


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BetterInvestings Online Stock Selection Guide (SSG)

report (partial screen)

The BetterInvesting Stock Selection

Guide (SSG) is a tool that provides

a framework to analyze and

evaluate prospective commonstock investments, based on the

firms fundamental data.

Find growth stocks trading at a

reasonable price.

FOR ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES ONLY!


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BetterInvestings company report (partial screen)

BetterInvestings S&P Data Feed

provides access to wide range of

very useful company information

This screen shows a partial view of

the information that is available:

S&P Stock Data

Service online access

to financial data,

provided by S&P, on

over 7,000 publicly

traded companies.FOR ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES ONLY!


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Easy access to Yahoo!Finance is also just aclick away from Portfolio Managers home page

Yahoo!Finance provides its

users with access to a wide

variety of free investment

information.Yahoo!Finances highly

useful website, provides very

valuable resources (this screen

shot shows just a small snippet

of theinformation available) for

inquisitive investors.FOR ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES ONLY!


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Other Features


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Making effective tax decisions with PortfolioManager

One of the many benefits of an accurate and up-to-date record keeping system is the

ability to access otherwise unorganized data in an useable format.

This is particularly important when considering the tax consequences of your investment

decisions.

Portfolio Manager helps by providing:

Lot-by-lot assignment when making partial sales

o FIFO, Specific ID, Average Cost Methods, Minimum or

Maximum gain

Effective portfolio construction

o taxable vs. tax-deferred account

Help with gift and estate planning decisions


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The Security Basis report shows each purchase lot forthe portfolio or a security


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Lot selection to use in partial sales can help to defer or save capitalgains taxes

Applyingsales in easy

Simplyselect the

method andPortfolioManager willhandle therest


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Portfolio Manager provides several other reportsto help investors better manage portfolios

Other tax reports include:

Capital Gains

Distributions

Qualified

Dividends

Short-Term to

Long-Term

Holding Period

Wash SaleCheck List

I i P f li M d I D i i M ki


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Using Security Watch Lists

Effective Tax DecisionsOther Features


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Creating and using a watch list within PortfolioManager

Using watch lists can improve the portfolio management process:

Provide alternate investment lists for building or modifying portfolios

Track and compare similar securities within a watch list

Share watch lists with family, friends, and associates

Allow for effective what-if testing

o What impact on asset allocation, diversification, taxes due, income

received, etc.


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Portfolio Manger provides a host of other toolsand features to improve decision making

Integrate other BetterInvesting tools data, SSGs,

Detailed option tracking including opening/closing buys, sells, assignment,

exercise

Short Selling

Performance reporting - determine the time-weighted internal rate of return

Security search reports - find all portfolios holding a security

Price alerts

Export reports to other applications

And many more important tools...


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Managing your portfolio islike tending to yourgarden.

BetterInvesting Portfolio

Manager will help makethe processunderstandable,enjoyable and rewarding.

Thank you for your interest in Portfolio Manager


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Improving Portfolio Management and Investment Decision MakingThank you for your interest in Portfolio Manager

To learn more, please visit :

www.biportfoliomanager.com(free 45 day demo available)

www.betterinvesting.org

QUANT IX SOFTWARE, Inc.

1035 West Glen Oaks Lane Suite 204Mequon, WI 53092

262-241-3990
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