Portfolio Information
From Open Risk Manual
Definition
Portfolio Information denotes the totality of information that an organization collects and / or produces about a Portfolio of financial assets
- Summary Portfolio Information helps management, board, third parties fulfil their respective oversight roles
- Detailed Portfolio Information helps business line or investment managers to fulfil their more granular management objectives
Collecting and utilizing portfolio information to support organizational objectives is one of the core tasks of Portfolio Management.
Portfolio Information is typically summarized in a Portfolio Report. Both standard and ad-hoc reports are possible, in principle covering all the available data fields
Quality Criteria
- Timeliness and Accuracy of underlying portfolio data (more generally Data Quality)
- Analytic nature
- Contain historical information
- Provide relative measures
- Permit drawing independent conclusions
- Summary information without data overload
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