Portfolio Management
Video: Manage Portfolios
Overview
When you first sign in, AssetView will automatically create your first portfolio with a name that you choose.
AssetView enables you to manage multiple Portfolios, each of which is completely separate and distinct. By default, there is no interaction across portfolios. Click the drop-down menu on the top right to see a list of your portfolios. Selecting a portfolio will open that portfolio and close the one that you are navigating away from.
Managing Portfolios
The Manage option on the drop-down menu on the top right opens the Manage Portfolio facility. Here you may create a new portfolio, restore a portfolio, or open an existing portfolio.
New Portfolio: To create a new portfolio, assign a portfolio name, name the first account, and click create. Your new portfolio will open.
Restore: AssetView automatically backs up your portfolio to AssetView's Cloud each time you open the portfolio. In Settings>Data, you can also invoke a back up of a portfolio to AssetView's Cloud. There are five backup spots reserved for each portfolio, each of which has a date and time stamp. When restoring portfolios, you are presented with a drop-down list of your portfolios. When you select a portfolio, you may be presented with dated versions of that portfolio starting with the most recent version. Select a version and click the "Restore" button. That portfolio will be restored and opened. Note that whichever version you choose to restore will become the current working copy of that portfolio.
Existing: Click the Existing tab to see a list of your portfolios, any of which you can choose to open.
Delete a Portfolio
There are two ways to delete a portfolio.
- You may also delete a portfolio from within that portfolio. To do so, navigate to Settings>Data and click the "Delete Portfolio" button. In the configuration screen, you will also see a checkbox that you may select to lock the portfolio and avoid accidental deletion. To delete a portfolio that has been locked, it first needs to be unlocked. Once you unlock a portfolio and elect to delete it, AssetView will prompt you to enter a number sequence to confirm deletion.
- From the drop-down menu on the top right of a an open portfolio, select the "Manage" option to open the Manage Portfolio facility. Here, you will find three dots in the right most column next to each portfolio that allows you to delete that portfolio. Once you click "Delete", you will be asked to confirm with a code that you may copy into the blank box. You may then click Accept to delete the portfolio.
In Settings>Data, you can delete your portfolio. You may choose to "Lock" a portfolio to prevent yourself from accidentally deleting that portfolio.
Rename a Portfolio
In Settings>General, you can rename your portfolio.
Portfolio Access
As an installed application, the local storage and access to a portfolio is specific to the application on that computer. See Security for more information. To access your portfolio on a different computer, restore the portfolio from AssetView's cloud. If you make changes to the application in that second environment and then want to include those changes in your first environment, then you must then restore from AssetView's cloud in the first environment.
Settings Import/Export
In Settings>Data, you can import and export just the Settings data of your portfolio. This is useful in creating a new portfolio that duplicates only the settings from an existing portfolio (i.e. your investment data is not included in the export).