Envestnet Inside the Advisor Portal

December 2018

Welcome to Inside The Advisor Portal, your monthly e-newsletter for quick tips on how to take advantage of your robust Envestnet platform.


Tip of the Month

Leverage the Envestnet Advisor Portal during Tax Season

At year-end, you are focused on managing your clients’ portfolios for taxes. The Envestnet Advisor Portal can help manage your tasks more effectively.

 Harvest Gains and Losses

Quickly generate a service request to view a summary of the gains and losses to harvest.

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 Tax Estimation Summary

View information on the current taxable activity for taxable accounts.

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 Realized and Unrealized Gains Reports

Access and set preferences for these tax reports.

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Feature Spotlight

Proposed Investments Step Updates

1. Renaming “Proposed Investments”

The name of the “Proposed Investments” step and the title of the investment solution section are changed to “Pick an investment strategy.”

Renaming “Proposed Investments

2. Renaming “Proposed Investment”

The “Proposed Investment” step is renamed as “Product Selection.”

Renaming “Proposed Investment”

3. Investment solution title refresh and sentence case labels

The title of the investment solution section gets refreshed while choosing a program. The label of “Registration Type” is changed to sentence case-“Registration type.” Same is applied for “Primary owner,” “Joint owner,” “Primary annuitant,” “Joint annuitant” and “Additional owner.”

Investment solution title refresh and sentence case labels

4. The “Joint owner” field update

The “Joint owner” field is displayed only if user has chosen a registration type that supports more than one account owner and requires all account owners to be added in the proposal. Also, the same family member cannot be chosen as both Primary owner and Joint owner.

The “Joint owner” field update

Ask an Advisor Portal Expert

Need assistance getting a task completed in the Advisor Portal? Is there a feature that you want to learn more about? Why not ask an expert?

Email your inquiry to expert@envestnet.com and a representative will reach out to help.


* Important note: realized and unrealized data is not the data of record. All data should be validated to the custodian.

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