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The menu bar on the software’s home page provides access to a number of other tools within the software. Each of these is described in a separate section below. The tools which are listed depend not only on which modules of the software your firm h...
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Synaptic Research provides four types of fund research: Research into unit trusts, life funds, pension funds, and offshore funds and investment trusts. Research into all the funds offered by a single promoter (such as Fidelity or Merrill Lynch)....
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The fund past performance data in Synaptic Research is supplied by FE, as described above. Synaptic are responsible for calculating some derived functions of the past performance such as alpha and beta. All fund data is as-at the most recent mo...
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Common issues which may occur when logging into Synaptic Product & Fund research Research:- When clicking through to Synaptic Product and Fund Research through the synaptic suite, you receive a error: This indicates your username a...
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Six simple tips to help you navigate around Synaptic Research: The icon in the top left corner of each page always acts as a link back to the software’s home page (illustrated by 1 in the screenshot to the right). The most commonly-used action...
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The section above describes how the grid of contracts can be filtered to remove contracts which don’t meet particular conditions. However, it’s also possible to select manually the contracts which you want to research – either instead of, or as wel...
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All research which you carry out in Synaptic Research is automatically stored. You don’t have to click on any sort of save button to store your work. (And, if you lose your connection to the internet halfway through your research, you won’t lose a...
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This article explains how fact sheets can be produced from Synaptic Research for Contracts, Companies and Funds. Within Synaptic Research there is the ability to produce fact sheets for current Contracts, for Companies who are present on th...
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Once you have created a ranking system which matches the client’s requirements, click on the Report tool above the ranking results, below the page’s title. This displays the screen illustrated by the first screenshot. The first step is to pick...
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The filtering process above describes how to research a product type, and eliminate any contracts which do not meet a client’s requirements. At the end of that stage the whole-of-market is reduced to those contracts which are capable of fulfilling t...