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- Establish Rebalancing Preferences
Prior to running a rebalance, as a best practice, set your rebalancing preferences to ensure they reflect your trading choices or requirements. These preferences are referred to as "global" because they apply to all rebalances that you run and help control the types of proposed orders PM&R generates following a rebalance. Preferences include settings such as instructions for market movement, intraday activity, minimum trade values, and rounding rules.
Override Established Preferences
Edit your global preferences at any time or, if you prefer, override your preferences at the individual rebalance level. This means that prior to running a rebalance, you can change your preferences thereby establishing preferences specific to that rebalance and the orders it proposes. Changes at the individual rebalance level do not impact your "global" preferences.
These rebalancing preferences apply to all rebalances that you run and are unique to your ID.
To establish rebalancing preferences
Select Rebalances > Rebalancing Preferences.
- If you have not established preferences, default settings display.
Enter your rebalancing preferences. (Field Definitions)
Select Save.
Note
Use Reset to Default to clear your changes prior to saving them. If you already saved your changes, using Reset to Default will not revert back to your previous saved preferences.
The settings available to you are based on your user entitlements and may differ from the settings defined below.
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Default Order Type | The type of order: Market (Default)
Limit (If entitled)
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Display Zero Quantity Trades | Indicate whether to display the zero (0) quantity orders generated as a result of the rebalance. Zero quantity orders occur for different reasons. For example, if a Do Not Trade restriction is triggered, the proposed order for the restricted security results in a zero quantity order. Another example is if you set a Minimum Trade preference, any proposed orders below that minimum are zero quantity orders. Yes (Default)
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Include Rules | Indicate whether established trade-related rules and restrictions influence the rebalance. Restrictions
Equivalences
Asset Location (Household rebalance only)
Note
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Include Market Value |
Include or exclude the market value of some account types from the rebalance. This feature allows the rebalance to include a more complete picture of an account's holdings as a percentage of the account's market value. For example, if an account holds a large amount of restricted stock in one company, including this account type significantly impacts the account value and the percentage necessary to rebalance. Orders, however, are never generated for holdings in these account types.
Legal (Type 4)
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Mutual Funds Liquidations | Designate the sale of mutual fund holdings as full liquidation, which sells the position, if the fund is eligible, across cash and margin account types and includes the trailing dividends: Send Full Liquidation Trade Type |
Price | The price to use in the rebalance: Real Time (If entitled)
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Positions/Balances/Tax Lots | Indicate whether to include current day (intraday) account activity in the determination of proposed orders, otherwise only account activity as of the previous close are included. Previous Day Closing (Default)
If you select Intraday, a message informs you during the rebalance that the process is being temporarily suspended while intraday activity is captured. Select OK to continue. On the Saved Rebalances window, the status changes from "In Progress" to "Complete" once the intraday activity is captured. (Filter the List of Rebalances) |
Minimum Trade |
Enter the minimum trade value for a proposed order and then indicate the quantity type it's based on. An order that falls below this minimum is excluded from the list of proposed orders. Shares (Not applicable to mutual funds.)
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Send Fractional Equity Shares | If entitled, indicate whether the rebalance should generate fractional shares orders for eligible equity and ETF securities: Yes
When you select Yes: - Order rounding does not apply.
Ineligible Securities Generally, all National Market System (NMS) exchange-listed stocks are eligible with the exception at this time of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A). However, other equity securities may be ineligible for fractional shares trading. Ineligible equity securities include, but are not limited to, securities with OTC markets as their primary exchange. To run a rebalance that includes securities ineligible for fractional shares trading, at the individual rebalance level, override the Send Fractional Equity Shares preference by selecting No. (Run a Rebalance) Quantity Types For most eligible securities, proposed fractional orders are created with a quantity type of dollars. If PM&R estimates that a proposed fractional order will sell 90% or more of an existing position, a shares-based order is generated instead. Full Liquidation If entitled to fractional shares trading, the auto-liquidation process is turned off so accounts can hold fractional shares. Yet, when you run a fractional or a nonfractional rebalance that proposes to sell all of a position that holds fractional shares, PM&R sends the full share quantity including any fractional shares to the Orders Unsent window. Note, too, you are prevented from creating block orders with the fully-sold security in this scenario. Note
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Rounding Rules | Specify rules for rounding buy and sell order quantities. This settings applies only to equities and securities that trade like equities such as common stocks and ETFs.
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