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Captool Professional Investor

"Independent Software for Independent Advisors" 

Recommended System

Imports and Exports

  • Pentium or equivalent, 400 Mhz or better, 128MB, XVGA (1024x768), MS-Windows 95, 98, NT,  2000, Me, or XP
  • Plain text import and export
  • Comma-delimited import and export
  • User-customizable import translate templates
  • Pre-defined import templates for popular data sources

User Interface

Downloading

  • Multi-document interface permits viewing several portfolios at one time
  • Scrollable, multi-record data viewing and input screens, with masking and screening functions
  • User-customizable data screens (field order, fonts, colors, headers, etc).
  • Internet stock and mutual fund quote downloads from various web sites.
  • Canadian & International internet quote downloads
  • (data provided by 3rd party services are subject to interruption, modification, or change of terms.)

Securities Handled

Data Management

  • Stocks, Mutual Funds, Annuities, Bonds, (fixed, zcb's, variable, treasuries, munis...), Cash, GNMA's, CMO's, Real Estate, Partnerships, Options, User defined securities.
  • Time-saving batch processing
  • Distribution record generation
  • Integrated backup and restore utility
  • File merging function
  • Data cut, copy & paste
  • User-optional data compression
  • User-optional data encryption
  • Data read/write controls for network ops (Pro2+)

Transactions Handled

International

  • Buy/Sell, Short/Cover, Margin Buys, Return of Capital, Dividends, Interest, Phantom Interest, Cap. Gains Distribs, (short/long), Reinvestments, Splits, Reverse Splits, Premium/Discount Amortizations, Fees, Commissions, Spinoffs, Mergers,....and more.
  • Multi-currency portfolio capability
  • Currency re-valuation utility
  • User label and header customization
  • International date & numeric formats support

Taxes

Client/Contact Management

  • Cost basis computation & tracking
  • 5 tax lot methods (FIFO, LIFO, Avg, Avg/2, specific)
  • Automatic/Manual tax lot assignment
  • Minimize taxes or Maximize Gains
  • Estimated Tax Computations
  • Customizable tax rate tables
  • Federal/Local tax free options
  • Capital Gains and Income Reports
  • Account records include account title, name, tax-ID, 3 phones, date of birth and brief note field, 3 addresses, 3 faxes, 2 e-mails, & family data
  • Telephone auto-dialing
  • Sub-account records (Pro2+)
  • Unlimited calendar/note logging with alarms
  • Memo merging and label generation

Reports

Client Billing

  • Extensive Report Customization including:                            
  • Field Selection from over 300 fields
  • Font type, size, and color control
  • Border (boxing) control
  • Subtotal and Totaling Control
  • "Suppress Detail" option
  • Date and Numeric formatting control
  • Optional user-customizable graphics associated with many reports
  • Customizable report headers including logos
  • User-customizable report footers
  • Optional report output to text or comma-separated  text files (importable into excel spreadsheet)
  • Multi-portfolio merged reports based upon tax-ID,  family identifier, or user-defined criteria.
  • "Who owns" cross-reference reporting
  • Compliance audit reporting
  • Client-specific report customization
  • Batch generation of Adobe PDF format reports for e-mail dissemination. Requires PDF Writer. (Pro2+)
  • Batch dissemination of reports by fax modem (Pro2+)
  • Website report distribution (Pro3+)
  • On assets under management:
  • % of period average balance
  • % beginning or ending balance
  • advance fee, with prior-period adjustments
  • profit-based incentive fee (Pro3+)
  • minimum and administrative fees
  • flat or layered fees
  • fee exclusions
  • Fee rates by asset class supported (Pro2+)
  • Optional time based billing
  • Customizable billing statement
  • Mutual fund load reporting (Pro2+)

Graphics

Broker/Dealer Interfaces

  • Fully integrated graphics require no external application software:
  • Valuation & Investment vs. Time
  • Portfolio Growth vs. Market Indices
  • Account allocation pie charts
  • Allocation model pie charts (Pro2+)
  • Security prices & fundamentals
  • Flexible, time-saving, no-extra charge B/D import interfaces:
  • Waterhouse, Schwab, Fidelity, National Financial, Pershing, RPR, AmeriTrade, First Trust Datalynx, Bear Stearns, Fiserv, KeyBank, Matrix, Penson, SLK, US Bank, DST FanMail, DAZL & many others!
  • Supports B/D data in Advent, Centerpiece, or dbCAMS import format (& others)
  • No extra charge B/D reconciliation's

ROI Performance

Allocation Driven Trades

  • AIMR compliant methodology
  • Time-weighted (AIMR) ROI's
  • Time+Dollar weighted ROI's (IRR)
  • Before/After estimated tax ROI's
  • Before/After management fee ROI's
  • Before/After commissions ROI's
  • Multiple portfolio composite ROI's
  • ROI reporting vs. "blended indices"
  • Computes re-balancing trades from user-specified Allocation tables
  • Re-balancing by asset class supported (Pro2+)
  • Implements exclusions and trade limits
  • Performs fund for fund swaps
  • Exports results to B/D uploadable files

Analysis

Fund Accounting

  • Risk Measures: Standard Deviation (Sigma), Alpha, Beta, Correlation & Sharpe Ratio
  • Security ranking and sorting by over 30 measures ( requires data collection)
  • Bond YTM, yield-to-call and duration
  • Maturity date ranking
  • Share accounting for pooled investments starting at Pro 3.  This feature may be subject to a surcharge based upon fund participants and assets.
  • Click here for surcharge schedule

Save time, make money!

Licensing

Updates to Captool portfolio management software will be periodically posted on the Internet at http://www.captools.com/, from which they may be downloaded and installed according to the instructions on the web page.  Captool Pro users have on-going access to Captool updates provided their license is current.  Captool Individual and Global users have access to such updates for the first 12 months, following initial licensing, after which a non-mandatory license renewal is required to obtain further access (see the “Update” web page for additional information).
  • Pro1: $2000 plus $1000/yr 2nd year renewal (1 user/1 person firm)
  • Pro2: $3000 plus $1500/yr 2nd year renewal  (1-3 users)
  • Pro3: $4000 plus $2500/yr 2nd year renewal (1-4 users) 
  • Pro4: $5000 plus $3500/yr 2nd year renewal  (1-5 users)
  • Above pricing includes Captools/net option.
  • Call for additional users
  • Click here for licensing terms

(pricing as of 03/31/2006)

Captool Professional Brochure in PDF Format

Click on picture for Captool pro brochure in pdf format!

"We know of no other program in its price range
with the capabilities of Captool." 
CFP BIZ Review
June '99 

 

 

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