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  1. 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...
  2. When I click e-apply and buy now on Webline, I don’t get through to the providers website?

    I cannot connect to a provider's extranet site to e-apply / buy now
  3. Scenario Modelling Report

    There will be a number of questions to answer before being able to produce the report, it can include a manual ATR reason and a closing statement if required: Once done, use the Next button to produce the report: The report opens in a sepa...
  4. Fund Management

    Fund Management is used to either exclude funds from the system, or to limit the amount of funds available. To access Fund Management: From the Contacts  screen, click on Setup and then choose Fund Panel : Once in Fund Panel , you see ...
  5. Licencing

    Administrator licence holders have been given a number of licences to give to users at the organisation by your parent organisation. There are several licence types that control which parts of the system and which applications particular users hav...
  6. When running through a Phased scenario, why am I only able to make changes to the summary details in the phased drawdown screen and not within the final results?

    The edit buttons within the summary area are greyed out because if any changes were to be made in the final results, it would affect the details of the first phased period. It is best to fine tune the details within the first phased period first, be...
  7. Finding Existing Goals

    Once a goal has been added and modelled it can be located at a later date by finding the client and clicking on Goals within the client’s record: Once this has been clicked, a list of all the Goals recorded for this client will be displayed: ...
  8. 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 ...
  9. How do I filter on Policy Conditions?

    The policy conditions tab shows conditions such as minimum initial ages, minimum investments, various types of charging etc. The list of policy conditions can include two types of fields - numeric fields which can be filtered and textual fields whi...
  10. My chosen fund is unavailable – why is this?

    Your firm’s Synaptic Suite Administrator might have set a restricted list of funds for you to choose from. You can check this by selecting Settings tab from the top ribbon and Fund Universe ; from here you can have a ‘read only’ view of whether y...