Mason Stevens Wrap Feed

Authority Process

The adviser will be required to contact Mason Stevens to request feed activation prior to using the feed for funds in Simple Fund 360.

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asadmin@masonstevens.com.au

Dear Mason Stevens,

Can you please setup the following accounts, including historical data, for the BGL SF360 feed.

Account Name	Account No# / HIN

Kind regards,

You can request activation for multiple accounts in the one email. Historical data will be requested as well.

From the Main Toolbar, go to Connect.
Select Feed Management from the list.
Select the Wraps and Platforms Global tab.

Add Mason Stevens Feed

From the Wrap and Platform Global tab, select (+) Setup..
The Setup Wrap and Platform Feed screen will appear. The fund name will appear in the Fund field.
Select Mason Stevens as the Feed Provider.
Input the External Account ID. The External Reference/Account ID to input is the Mason Stevens Account Number.

The External Account ID to input is the combination of your Account Code and Portfolio Code from Mason Stevens. It is input as the following:

AccountCode/PortfolioCode

For example if the account code is S000000 and the portfolio code is SELF DIRECTED - STD the ID will be input as:

S000000/SELF - DIRECTED - STD

You can locate these codes via the Annual Report Pack.

Note: if data has been entered manually for this feed prior to its activation, input a Do not import data before date in the relevant field to the last date of manual data entry.
Select the Bank Account for the fund the authority is being granted for (authority will need to be granted for each bank account).

Note: Selecting Advanced Options will display a drop down of any bank or other non-unitised investments appearing in the Security Code chart. This chart will contain the relevant mapping codes used by the feed to load data to the correct account. These fields will be empty until the feed is operating.

Potential Duplicate Accounts
If you do not set this up, the feed will automatically create new accounts and you might end up with duplicate accounts.
Select Save. This step will need to be completed for each fund that will be using the Mason Stevens feed in Simple Fund 360.

Feed Activation

Once the feed has been saved, the feed will appear with the status Awaiting Transactions, with the toggle set to On. Do not switch this off.

Simple Fund 360 will automatically load transactions from the date of activation. Activation can take up to one month for data to be uploaded into Simple Fund 360, as Mason Stevens process accounts on a monthly basis. Note: If historical data has been requested this may also take up to 30 days to feed through.

What is imported?

The following information is imported through the data feed:

Investment movements (purchases and disposals)
Income transactions (dividends, distributions and bank interest)
Bank transactions
Foreign market trades and foreign currency bank transactions.

How will transactions be coded?

All cash and investment transactions will be allocated to the correct account in Simple Fund 360. For purchases of new investments not previously held by the fund, new accounts will be created and transactions will be automatically allocated.

Which transactions will be matched?

Investment transactions (purchases and disposals) will be automatically matched to their corresponding Cash transactions by Simple Fund 360. Dividends and distributions will be matched to account 23900 and 23800 respectively during upload using the ASX codes. Interest income will also be automatically coded to the linked 25000 interest account.

Can historical transactions prior to the feed activation be uploaded?

Yes. Historical transactions are requested upon feed activation for Simple Fund 360. Perform a transaction re-request to obtain historical data.

What is the turnaround time for feed commencement once an authority has been provided to BGL?

Approval for daily feeds may vary between 10-15 business working days. If your adviser has requested historical data feeds this can take up 30 days to be sent to BGL.

Foreign Transactions.

Foreign Bank transactions will be coded to the 60400 Accounts. If a foreign bank account already exists in your fund, please use the Advanced Settings to add in the bank code so transactions are allocated to this via the feed, otherwise, a new bank account will be automatically created.

Re-Request

From within the Wraps and Platforms Global tab, select the fund(s) to complete the re-request for.
Select the Re-request transactions button that has appeared at the top of the screen.
From the Re-Request Transactions screen, input the dates Do Not Load Before (earliest import date) and Do Not Load After (last import date). Transactions within this date range will be requested and imported.
Select Import.

Important

The re-request function can be used to import historical transactions.

Distribution transactions and tax components

Simple Fund 360 automatically updates wrap feed distribution transactions with their respective final tax components when the annual statement is made available.

For more information, please refer to Distribution transactions and tax components