At the top left of the Securities screen in Portfolio Manager, investors will see the portfolio name. To the far right at the top of the screen users will be able to see the Current Value in the specific portfolio. Next to this the Total Return in dollar terms and Total Return in percentage terms per annum is highlighted. Below this, investors will see the ASX code and company name of the relevant security that has been selected. If the stock is covered by Lincoln research there will be a star to the left of the code if the stock is a Star Growth Stock (yellow), Borderline Star Growth Stock (green) or Star Income Stock (purple).
Underneath the ASX code and company name, investors will be shown the Quantity of securities currently held, the Price and the Current Value. In addition, users can see the Income, Total Return (in dollar terms) and Total Return per annum in percentage terms generated from these securities. To the right of this, investors will be able to see in the pie chart the percentage weighting of the specific security compared to the rest of the portfolio.
To the far right, investors are able to see the performance of the portfolio compared to various ASX indices. This index shown is automatically the All ords (XAO), however, to change this there is a drop-down menu in the top right hand corner. The time-frame shown for the performance is automatically set at one year, however, investors can also change this to a shorter or longer period by selecting this below the chart.
Trades and Adjustments
In the Trades and Adjustments section, investors will be able to see recent trades and adjustments for this security. These will be ordered by the Date column with the most recent at the top. The second column Trade Type highlights the type of transactions such as Buy, Sell etc., while the Quantity, Price, Value, Fees and Current Holding are also displayed. If investors have included any relevant Notes for a transaction, then these are shown in the last column. Above the list of recent transactions, investors can also easily enter new transactions for this security by clicking on the buttons 'New Buy', 'New Sell' and Other Transactions such as 'New Buyback', 'New Adjustment', 'New Capital Return', 'New Capital Instalment', 'New Reconstruction', 'New Split' and 'New Consolidation'. Trades and adjustments can also be deleted by selecting the relevant row with the check box at the very left and then clicking the Delete button at the top left of the section.
Income
The Income section highlights recent relevant income for this security. At the very top of the section there is a 'New Dividend' button, which can be used to manually add details of a dividend. Below this, income for the relevant security will be ordered in the Date column with the most recent at the top. The other columns provided information of the Holding, DPS (cents), Franked amount, Unfranked amount, Total received, Franking Credit and Total Taxable. To the right of each distribution, investors can click on the 'Reinvest' button, which will enable a DRP trade to be entered. Income can also be deleted by selecting the relevant row with the check box at the very left and then clicking the Delete button at the top left of the section.