Your Boutique Portfolio Solution

IAS can help you to build a service unique to your business and client needs.

• Your fee structure – choice of dealer pricing.
• Your branding – portfolios fully branded – not just someone else’s product.
• Your diversified portfolios – the potential to become an Investment Manager or choose from a diverse range of professionally managed investment options.
• Our expertise – professional investment managers to manage the portfolios, HSBC holds the investments and cash for your client, and IAS administers the Managed Account.

Please Contact Us to discover how we can help you develop a solution that suits your business.

Benefits of the Service

For You

Manage instantly, improve efficiencies

Clients enter into a contract which gives discretionary authority to invest on their behalf to IAS and through IAS, your dealer group and advisers.

The discretionary nature of the service means advisers don’t need to produce a Statement of Advice, Statement of Additional Advice or Record of Advice to make changes to their clients’ portfolios.

You obtain significant practice efficiencies by managing your clients more effectively and reducing paperwork.

Own the service

Give the service your company ‘look and feel’ by branding the documentation and your portal.

Spend more time with your clients. Leave the administration to us

The day to day administration of running direct portfolios is managed by professionals: Investment Managers manage the portfolios, a Custodian holds the investments and cash for your client, and IAS as administrator operates the Managed Account, and

• undertakes transactions on your clients behalf,
• handles all reporting and record keeping, and
• provides online resources to help you administer and track investments.

Enhance client outcomes

The IAS Service gives your dealer group the ability to select a suite of investment managers and investment options, including asset class model management, which allows you to enhance client outcomes.

For Your Clients

All the benefits of direct ownership

Clients directly hold the assets in their individual Managed Account and retain beneficial ownership. They have the benefits of direct ownership such as portability and full benefits of franking credits from dividend payments.

Transparency

All fees feed directly through into your client’s portfolios so everything is visible and accountable.

Professional portfolio management

Maintain direct ownership but have professional management. Every Investment Option is managed by an experienced Investment Manager.

Maintain your client’s unique tax position

Not only is it important to choose the right investments but choosing the right accounting method to treat those investments is critical. As each client’s tax needs are unique, the service provides the ability to nominate a methodology from a range of options which will assist with their tax position.

Portability

Clients can in specie securities into and out of the service and between portfolios in most cases without triggering a capital gains tax event.

Branding

Give the Service your company 'look and feel' by branding all elements.

Portal

Clients enter your Managed Account Service portal through a link in your website or a direct http address. Ensure the portal retains the feel of your company site by adding your company colours, logos and images.

Reporting and forms

All client reports will have your company colours and logo. For an additional fee you can also badge all appropriate user forms on your portal.

Documentation

Talk to us about branding the Managed Account documentation range. Design the documents to reflect your brand.

Reporting

Your Managed Account Service offers a variety of reporting options based on frequency, range and access.

Frequency

Continuous online disclosure means advisers can produce reports daily, quarterly or any other frequency they require.

Daily reports are available to view, based on data as at the previous business day.

Quarterly pre-generated client reports are available. Dealers can create their own quarterly template from a large suite of reporting options.

Annual tax reports are prepared by IAS to assist with tax returns.

Range

An ever growing list of reports are available through the Service, including unrealised capital gains and/or capital loss reports and performance reporting. Client reports may be run at either the portfolio or consolidated account level, depending on the report criteria.

To find out about our reporting range and other Managed Account Service features, Contact Us.

Access

Who has access
You can use access levels to produce management reporting and business intelligence. Reporting capability can be set up by workgroups at different levels; be it the dealer group level, by region, by office, by adviser, by client and more.

Each level can have different views and reporting options available. For example offices can share client information or restrict access. Dealer groups can view inflows by districts.

What they can see
Chose which reports are appropriate for your dealer group as well as which reports you wish your clients to access through their own user logon.

Secure online account access

When a client’s Managed Account is established, they are provided online access to their account information via your dealer group’s secure website. They receive a user name and password which allows them secure access to a wide range of daily reports for their Managed Account.