Create an Entity

To create a new composite or change the details of an existing one, use the GIPS Composites workspace in Performance Center or Composites workspace under Portfolio Desk in Portfolio Data Center.

There are several windows used to set up the static data about the composite such as its name, inception date, and benchmark. Eagle Performance is flexible with regard to what information you are going to store about each fund and this can be changed over time.

For retail fund performance, it is important to maintain data about the fund in the fields listed in the following table.

In this section

Field	Used For
Inception Date	Calculating ITD returns. You can store multiple inception dates, for example fund, manager, and performance dates.
Front End Load	Calculating front-end load adjusted returns. Stored as percentages in entity fields by year.
Fiscal year end	Calculating returns from fiscal year to date. See the following figure.
CDSC loads	Calculating back-end load adjusted returns. Stored as percent (such as 5.00) in entity fields by year.
Benchmark	Performance Comparison.

It also may be helpful to maintain additional data about the fund such as:

Open or closed end fund indicator
Daily or periodic dividends
Daily or monthly pricing
Reinvestment date assumption (month end, specific date)
Income spreading method (forwards, backwards, split month/year end)

These fields might be required to automate the creation of the NAV related data for each fund.