Portfolio Services Website User Guide CAS4007 (10/15)

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1 Portfolio Services Website User Guide

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 01 Logging in to the CommSec Adviser Services Website Your Home Page Navigating the Website Corporate Actions... 6 Entitlement Lists Entitled Clients Reports Report Centre Popular Reports Logging out Any Questions? Please note: The screenshots provided in this User Guide have been provided for illustrative purposes only. Some of the functionality and layout may differ from what is presented in the actual website. 2 of 14

3 01. LOGGING IN TO THE COMMSEC ADVISER SERVICES WEBSITE To access Portfolio Services for corporate actions and reporting, you will need to login to the CommSec Adviser Services website. QUICK TIP If you need help logging in you can call CommSec Adviser Services on Once on the site click on Trading & Cash, enter your username and password in the login box in the top right corner of the page and click Login. 3 of 14

4 02. YOUR HOME PAGE Once you have logged in, you will be taken to your home page. On your home page you ll see News and Market Updates and market dashboards. At the top of the page, you will see the main menu navigation. QUICK TIP You can personalise your homepage by clicking Show on the Manage My Home Page tab. When customising your homepage you can choose from a range of information and functions including the latest News Feeds, Market Update, Market Watch, Watchlist, All Ords, Market Indices and Exchange Rates. 4 of 14

5 03. NAVIGATING THE WEBSITE The main menu on the top of the home page allows you to navigate to all areas of the website. You can access the Portfolio Services site for corporate actions and reporting directly from the main menu. Click My Clients on the main menu, View Portfolio Services, and then Launch to view the corporate actions and reporting window. QUICK TIP There s no need to sign in again on the Portfolio Services corporate actions site you will be logged in automatically. Close this window when you are finished with the corporate actions, tax and performance reporting site to return to the main site. 5 of 14

6 04. CORPORATE ACTIONS Entitlement Lists Select Corporate Actions from the main menu, then Entitlement Lists to view a dashboard of currently open and recently closed corporate actions. You will only see a corporate action for a stock if that stock is held by one of your clients. Corporate Actions and Initial Public Offerings appear under separate headings, giving you easy access to the details of each offer. From the Corporate Actions page you can access details of any corporate actions, PDFs of Offer Documents and act on your clients corporate action offers. QUICK TIP The number shown in brackets in each Entitlements link highlights at a glance how many of your clients are entitled to each Corporate Action. Keep track of which entitlements you ve actioned with the number of clients still to action indicated in brackets beneath each Un-actioned link. 6 of 14

7 More information on how to use the corporate actions functionality can be found in the Corporate Actions Guide, located on the home page. 7 of 14

8 05. ENTITLED CLIENTS In addition to viewing corporate actions in the Entitlement List, clicking on Corporate Actions > Entitled Clients on the main menu will take you to the Corporate Action Client Search, where you can search by Client Account Name or Account Number to see their entitlements to corporate actions and Initial Public Offerings. Type your client s Account Name or Account Number into the box and click Search. Your search results will display below. To view the corporate actions and IPO entitlements for a client, click on the Corporate Actions link. You will be taken to the Corporate Actions by Client page where you can view a list of corporate actions and IPOs relating to your client. Alternatively, click the Report link to open the Corporate Actions Reports screen. Here, you can run a report on actioned and/or un-actioned corporate actions over a specified date range for a client. Further narrow the report results by including a specific Stock Code in the report parameters. 8 of 14

9 From the Corporate Actions by Client page you can: View a detailed description of a corporate action by clicking on the stock code in the Stock column Review the prospectus by clicking on Offer Document to open the prospectus in a new window; and View acceptance instructions by clicking on Application. 9 of 14

10 The first time you enter a Corporate Action from the Default or Entitlements screen, or an IPO from the Applications link, you will be required to accept the Conditions of Use before you can proceed. Accepting the Conditions of Use does not mean you have sent through a response to the Corporate Action or IPO. 10 of 14

11 06. REPORTS Report Centre The Report Centre allows you to generate reports on your clients accounts. You can select which clients to include in your report and which reports to generate by ticking the check box next to the items you want to see in the report. You can choose a date range to apply to the data included in the report, and choose to generate reports for multiple accounts separately or as one consolidated report. 11 of 14

12 When you have selected the items you want to report on and the date range, click on Generate Report to create your report. Your report will open in a new window, and may take a few moments to generate. 12 of 14

13 07. POPULAR REPORTS From the Reports tab on the menu you can also access popular reports, including: Asset Holding Average Cost Asset Holding Unrealised Tax Gains/Losses QUICK TIP You can run response summary reports on both open and closed Corporate Actions and Initial Public Offerings. Position & Portfolio Valuations Response Summary Report Response Summary by Client Report You can view a full description of the reports available in the Glossary, which is available on the Report Centre page of the website. 13 of 14

14 08. LOGGING OUT To log out of the corporate actions and reporting window, simply click Close Window. 09. ANY QUESTIONS? If you have any questions about using the site, please contact CommSec Adviser Services: Telephone: Important information. Share Trading and Portfolio Administration and Reporting are services provided by Australian Investment Exchange Ltd (AUSIEX) ABN AFSL , a Participant of the ASX Group and Chi-X Australia. AUSIEX is a wholly owned but non-guaranteed subsidiary of the Bank. 14 of 14