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24 Topics13th March AMA: I'm Jason Zhang, Xplan Portfolio expert and product manager, Ask Me Anything!
Managing client portfolios effectively is essential for a well-run advice practice – but are you using all the features available to you in Xplan? Make 2025 the year you fully harness Portfolio's potential by posting a question below for me to help! For example, curious about how to integrate the new Recommendations screen into the wizard? Need help transitioning a practice to the new screen? Looking for tips on building corporate action templates for common events? Or maybe you have feedback or questions on what we plan to roll out in 2025? Join me and my fellow Portfolio expert and product manager marc.fraser-jones here on Thursday 13th March from 3pm to 4pm. Start popping in your questions below and Ask Me Anything! ❗️Update: This AMA has now ended but please continue to pop your questions in the discussion forums and make sure you tag us at jason.zhang and marc.fraser-jones 🎙️ Let us know what you thought of the AMA and what topics you would like to see next here.460Views6likes17CommentsAMA: We’re Dela Dzadey and Lana Graham, paraplanning and Xtools experts, Ask Us Anything!
Got a burning question? Join us here on Wednesday 22nd May from 2pm to 2:30pm. For those who don’t know us, I’m Dela Dzadey, director and advice manager at TNT Group, helping bridge the efficiency gaps in advice production for advisers and paraplanners. lana.graham is the Xtools product manager and resident expert at Iress, and we’ll be hanging out here to answer any questions you have. In the meantime, you can start popping your questions below and Ask Us Anything! Update: This AMA has now ended but please continue to pop your questions down below or in the discussion forums and make sure you tag me at dela.dzadey or lana.graham974Views10likes36CommentsAMA: I'm Katrina Yung, Xplan WealthSolver expert, Ask Me Anything!
Do you have a burning question about Xplan WealthSolver? Need help with making the most of its comparison capabilities? Join me here on Wednesday 9th October from 2pm to 2:30pm. With years of experience helping advisers deliver retirement and investment advice efficiently, I’m here to help with all things WealthSolver. Start popping in your questions below and Ask Me Anything! ❗️Update: This AMA has now ended but please continue to pop your questions in the discussion forums and make sure you tag me at katrina.yung371Views3likes13CommentsTracking Client Progress
How do you track clients progress over time? We sometimes put together a report showing the balance, withdrawals and contributions each year. This helps to show how the clients portfolio grows over time. However we're doing this manually and it's time consuming. Is there any automated way to do with? Any reports built into Xplan? Do you have any other good ways to show clients their progress? It would be especially good if there was a way to link it to their goals.233Views6likes11CommentsAMA: I'm Marc Fraser-Jones, Xplan Portfolio expert and product manager at Iress, Ask Me Anything!
Do you have a burning question about Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs) capabilities in Xplan? Join me here on Tuesday 13th August from 2pm to 2:30pm. With years of experience helping advisers, paraplanners and licensees streamline their portfolio construction in Xplan, I’m here to help. Start popping in your questions below and Ask Me Anything! ❗️Update: This AMA has now ended but please continue to pop your questions in the discussion forums and make sure you tag me at marc.fraser-jones750Views9likes29CommentsOverlaying key life events against portfolio balance reports
We have been discussing as a team if it would be more meaningful for clients for us to overlay key life events (the purchase of a house, paying for a child's wedding, receiving an inheritance etc) over a Portfolio Balance report so the clients have some context as to the drops and peaks in their portfolio balance over a period of time. Obviously we could capture key life events as a data point moving forwards and to some degree populate them looking backwards as well, but thought it would be an interesting addition for our clients. Interested to hear of any other firms taking this approach, and how you go about it?148Views4likes6Comments