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When you are setting up benchmarks, you can assign a default dictionary to the benchmark entity. The default dictionary allows you to retrieve entities when a report is running for different performance models. For example, you can report the Total level index return stored using the default dictionary on two different reports—one where you report performance by country and another where you report by sector.

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Sample Uses of Default Dictionaries

Some general uses of default dictionaries follow:

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• Composite Weighted Returns. You can use a default dictionary if you have a situation where the portfolio constituents have performance data stored with different Dictionary IDs. For more information, see GIPS Composite Management Configuration.
• Composite Analysis. You can set a default dictionary for either Composite, benchmark, or Constituent data in the Composite Analysis report. Use this only if the data is stored using different performance models for the different entity types. For more information, see GIPS Composite Management Configuration.
• Performance Query Tool. When you display one or more time series of returns, market values, and other statistics in the Performance Query Took, if fund and benchmark returns are stored in different models, you can use the default dictionary to retrieve the benchmark returns from a different model. For more information, see the Performance Query Tool User Guide.

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Set Up a Default Dictionary

This section describes how you can set up a default dictionary for use in performance reports. You must identify the name of the performance model you plan to assign as the entity's default dictionary, and add a code value for the default dictionary as an Entity Characteristic code. You can then assign the performance model to an entity, such as a custom benchmark, as its default dictionary.

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1. From any Eagle window, click the Eagle Navigator button.
2. Enter Dictionaries in the Start Search text box.
3. Click the Dictionaries (Reporting Center) link to access the Dictionaries window.
   You see Dictionaries window.
4. In the Name column, identify the name of the performance model that you need to use as the default dictionary.
5. Enter Codes in the Start Search text box.
6. Click the (Codes) System Management Center link to access the Codes window.
   The Codes window appears.
7. Double-click the code with a Short Desc of DEFPERFMODEL and a Long Description of Default Dictionary.
   The Code Values window appears.
8. In the Source field, select a source for the code value, and then click Add.
   The Code Values dialog box appears.
9. Enter the Short Name and Long Name for the code value.
   You must add a new code value for the Default Dictionary that you can assign as an Entity Characteristic Code. For example, you can add a code value of Default Perf Model for Perf Analysis. The Long Name must exactly match your dictionary Name identified at the beginning of this procedure.
10. Click Add, and then click Save All.
    The system closes the Code Values dialog box and saves the code value you entered.

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Assign a Default Dictionary to an Entity

After you create a default dictionary code value for use in performance reporting, you can assign that code to an entity that you want included in a performance report.

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