Navigation and Usability
Changed the general navigation method to use double-click instead of the current single-click to open a file (search, universe, investment list, chart, etc.) and generate a Quicktake report
Improved the response time for three PDF reports: Investment Summary, Performance Evaluation, and Rating Analysis. Rating Analysis is applicable to US non-Muni open-end funds
Enabled saving of user-defined order in investment lists
Enabled retaining of selections in universe/investment list/search while switching between data views or coming back from Edit Data dialog
Added a Reset Universe function under Action in fund universes to remove existing search filters and restore the whole universe view
Consolidated data trees between searchable versus viewable
Moved display of portfolio dates in Holdings Similarity chart to the bottom of the chart to allow more space for displaying names
New Functionality
Added Stock Intersection report
Enabled HB Style Trail and a few other reports for stock universe
Enabled charts and graphs for Ownership-Security universe
Added option for displaying top holdings in X-Ray report: Top 25, Top 100, and All, in addition to Top 10
Added Hedge Fund Quicktake report
Added graphs such as Investment Growth and Risk/Reward for China, Australia, and Canada fund universes
Added Investment Detail report to VA/L Policy universes
Added Morningstar Page for 50 China open-end funds
Added Find Similar Funds function to US open-end fund universe
Enabled currency conversion capability in user-defined reports built by the Report Builder tool
Added a Title report component with ISIN as an identifier
Data Added
Four data "readiness" indicators to Snapshot view in various fund universes: operation, price, performance, and portfolio. The purpose is to add transparency to Morningstar database.
Investor Returns at latest month--end and quarter--end for US open--end fund universe
Broad Asset Class data point for applicable US fund universes
Deferred Load, Max Front Load, and Redemption for US, Europe and other applicable universes
Exchange listing to ETF and closed--end fund universes
Net and gross expense ratios for US VA/L fund universe
Post--tax daily NAVs and post--tax daily return indexes for Italy open--end fund universe (data to be populated by mid--October)
Primary Benchmark to separate accounts universe
Closed to All Inv, Closed To New Inv, and minimum purchase information for US, Canada, and Europe fund universes
Equity Region Developed %, Equity Region Emerging %, and Equity Region Not Classified %
Asset Alloc Non--US Equity %, Asset Alloc Bond %, Asset Alloc US Bond %, and Asset Alloc Non--US Bond % for US fund universes
Daily Price to Europe fund universes
Load Adjusted Return Since Inception at latest month--end and quarter--end for US open--end fund universe
And a few data points in VA/L policies
In the past five weeks, we have also worked on resolving implementation issues. Many issues reported have been fixed in this release, such as:
Producing data for newly created aggregates made faster
Importing investment lists by ISIN, ticker, etc. made more robust
Printing charts to PDF for certain users resolved. (If it still fails, it is most likely due to the failure in registering required files. Support from your technical staff is then needed.)
Currency conversion errors in risk statistics, calendar year returns, and aggregates/imports resolved
Thank you,
Morningstar Direct Team