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

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.