How to add your other Investments in Funds held elsewhere to your Portfolio
Once you have activated your Portfolio and logged in you can start to build your Portfolio with details of your investments where your funds are held else where, such as UK Authorised Unit Trusts, UK OEICs, FSA Recognised Offshore Funds or Offshore Regulated Funds.
You can do this quickly and easily by clicking on the ‘Add Investments’ link in the left hand column of your portfolio under ‘Your Investment’ and then following these steps:
- As you require to add an investment in a fund you will need to select the ‘Funds’ option from the ‘Product’ drop down menu on the add investments page
- On selection of ‘Funds’ the page will refresh and the options to search for the fund by either 'Fund Manager' or the 'Fund Name' will become available (Once you have identified the fund your investment is in, we will be able to provide you with an indicative price, on the balance of the security for your fund, as part of the ‘Other Investments’ view within your portfolio account)
- Additionally you need to select a ‘Search Option’ on how you wish the search be carried out, either as an ‘Exact Match’ (you will need to enter the exact text match for fund manager or fund name) or a ‘Partial Match’ (use this option if you are not sure of the exact fund manager or fund name as this will match on the characters you have entered in your search criteria)
- Enter the name or part of the name (dependent on the ‘Search Option’ criteria) for the fund you have an investment in and select the 'Search' button
- The results of your search will be displayed at the bottom of the page under the headings ‘Fund Manager’ and ‘Fund Name’. Select the fund you wish to add into your portfolio by clicking on it from the list
- The page will refresh and the fund you have selected will now be displayed under your ‘Search Options’ and a request for you to enter the balance of your investment within that fund
- Enter your holding fund balance and select the 'Add' button
- You have now successfully added your fund investment to your Portfolio and this will be confirmed as you will see an ‘Add Investment Confirmation’ page.
- Your fund investment will now be visible under the ‘Other Investments’ tab within your Portfolio
As we do not manage the holding balances of these funds we cannot update changes in the balances automatically although we will show an indicative price for the currently saved balance.
To ensure that you can keep the details of your fund balances up to date you can click the 'Amend' button located next to each fund listed on the ‘Other Investments’ tab within your Portfolio to alter the balance as and when it changes. Once you have clicked this button you can enter your new funds balance on the displayed page and click the second 'Amend' button to apply the changes to the fund.
Additionally if you no longer have a need to view any of your funds, select the 'Delete' button located next to each fund listed on the ‘Other Investments’ tab, and this will remove the selected fund from your Portfolio.
