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  1. How do I filter using a grid of contracts?

    When you start a piece of research, the filtering screen only displays the company and name of the contract: Any number of data fields can be added to the grid to view by simply selecting (clicking on) the field name from any of the tabs on the ...
  2. 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 ...
  3. How do I manually exclude contracts?

    As well as (or instead of) filtering the grid of contracts, you can also manually select contracts to be excluded. Note  - Manual exclusion only applies to product research. It is not available on fund research. You can specify the contracts to e...
  4. Can I remove all filtering within a piece of Research?

    You can remove all the filters you have selected at once by selecting (clicking on) Clear all filters from the bottom of the features list in the Filtering screen: This simply removes all the filtering and refreshes the screen. However, it doe...
  5. How do I filter on Statistics?

    The Stats  tab lists a variety of statistics about contracts - financial strength, investment flexibility in terms of linked funds and sectors, plus charges and premium information about contracts (all dependent on the type of product). For example...
  6. How do I filter on Specific Linked Funds?

    As well as, or instead of filtering on sectors, you can also eliminate contracts which do not offer specific linked funds. This can be done by selecting one of the options at the bottom of the Sectors tab: Selecting funds individually Funds c...
  7. 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...
  8. How do I filter on sectors?

    The Sectors  tab shows all the sectors in which any of the contracts offers a linked fund. Synaptic offers a choice of two sector definitions, FE (Financial Express) or IMA/ABI/AIC. The latter provides the well-known but less detailed sector defin...
  9. How do I filter on features?

    The Features  tab shows Synaptic's analysis of all the features offered by the contracts being researched. You mark a feature as being essential for the client's requirements simply by ticking the box next to the feature's name. The grid is immedi...
  10. Have you got any tips on filtering?

    Here are some tips when filtering contracts and where relevant, funds: You can see everything you are currently filtering on and why specific contracts/funds are being excluded by using the Audit Trail If you make a recommendation to a client whi...