Why exclude an account
When you generate an Annual Review, Advice Designer calculates investment performance (valuation, return, and asset allocation figures) across your client's linked accounts for the selected date range. Sometimes you'll want to leave one or more accounts out of that calculation — for example, an account that was closed part-way through the period, or one that shouldn't be included in a combined return figure.
💡 Note: Excluding an account only affects how the return and valuation figures are calculated for that review — it does not remove the account from the client's record or from other Plans.
Excluding accounts when creating a review
You can set exclusions as part of the standard review setup, before the review is generated.
From the Reviews menu, start a new review as usual and step through Review Details and Entities.
On the Review Options step:
Under Exclude Accounts, click into the field and select the account(s) you want left out of the calculation. Use Select All if you need to exclude every account listed.
Continue to Get Started to complete the review setup.
Updating exclusions on an existing review
If a review has already been created, you can still adjust which accounts are included in its return calculation.
Open the review and go to the Investment tab.
On the Overview sub-tab, use the options menu (⋮) to access the investment settings for this review.
This opens the Investment Details panel, showing the same fields used at setup — Date Range, Fees and Taxes, Primary Return Type, FUM Only, Settled, and Exclude Accounts.
Update the Exclude Accounts field to add or remove accounts from the calculation, then save.