Contribution
Break down a fund's profit and loss by holding and by accounting entry.
Contribution breaks down a fund's profit and loss to show exactly what drove it, both by individual holdings (the portfolio view) and by accounting entries (the balance-account view). It lets you trace performance back to its sources and spot where the numbers may be wrong. It answers: what actually made the fund go up or down today, and is anything off?
How it works
It attributes daily profit and loss two complementary ways. The portfolio view assigns profit and loss to each instrument from its market value, price change, and currency effect, then rolls those up by asset class, sector, country, or currency. The accounting view does the same from the fund's balance-sheet accounts, measuring each account's day-over-day movement (adjusted for currency and fiscal-year effects) and rescaling it against NAV to show its impact. Working at this granularity is what lets it surface the specific instruments or accounts driving performance and flag abnormal contributors.
What you get
- Each holding's share of the fund's gain or loss and its market exposure, grouped by asset class, sector, country, or currency.
- The portion of return that came purely from currency moves (the FX impact).
- Each accounting movement's effect on the fund's value, grouped by account type.
- Flags for unusual contributors and events: large swap moves, expired instruments still held, sudden exposure shifts, abnormal account swings, and newly appearing exposures.
How to use it in Spark
The breakdown and its flags arrive as data in your workspace. Explore them in a data view, chart the top contributors on a canvas, and route the flagged events to a task or a workflow for follow-up.