How does grouping Wrap accounts work?

You can group a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 8 of your clients’ accounts together to make it easier to manage for fees and reporting purposes. Grouping can be useful when a client or their family holds multiple Wrap accounts.

Only active accounts can be added to a group when creating a group. However, if an account was active during the group's creation and subsequently closed, it can still be included in group reports.

Your clients won’t be able to see the other accounts in their account group unless you request otherwise.

How are groups used in Report Builder?

Groups established in Adviser Online are directly leveraged by Report Builder for generating group reports. Report Builder can instantly utilise these existing groups, eliminating the need for ad-hoc group creation. By default, all active accounts within a created group (up to a maximum of 8) will be selected when generating a report.

For more information see Using Report Builder.

What types of groups are available?

Reporting group

You can generate reports across different products within the group.

An account can be in multiple reporting groups.

For more information on how group performance reporting works, see Understanding performance reporting.

For more information on how to generate group reporting via Report Builder, see Using Report Builder.

Fee group

When grouping accounts for fees, these accounts will be automatically grouped for administration fees and advice fees (if applicable)

Administration fees:

  • Fee aggregation benefit (Consolidator II – Elevate accounts only): You can group up to eight Super and Pension Consolidator II and/or Investment Consolidator II accounts of your client’s relevant family members for fee aggregation. Tiered administration fees will be calculated on the total applicable balance of the grouped accounts. The account-keeping fees apply to each account held by your client.
  • Fee aggregation benefit (Macquarie Vision accounts only): You can group up to eight Macquarie Super and Pension and/or Macquarie Investment accounts of your client’s relevant family members for fee aggregation. Tiered administration fees will be calculated on the total applicable balance of the grouped accounts. Note: Macquarie Trading accounts cannot be grouped with Macquarie Investment and/or Macquarie Super/Pension accounts for fee purposes. In order to group Macquarie Trading accounts together, they must be linked to a Vision Cash account.
  • Relationship discount (closed Consolidator): You can group your client’s relevant family members in Investment Consolidator or Super and Pension Consolidator portfolios, for a 10% discount to be applied to each tier of the administration fees for each portfolio. The minimum monthly fee will be applicable on each portfolio.
  • Read more about fee aggregation and relationship discounts.

Advice fees:

  • Macquarie Wrap accounts only: Advice fees can be submitted per account using the Advice Fee Form. In the Advice Fee Form, you can choose for your adviser service fee/s to calculate on fee group balance or individual account balance.  
  • Macquarie Vision accounts only: Advice fees for Vision groups can be applied and updated using the Macquarie Vision Fee grouping form. When applying advice fees that calculate on group balance to Vision groups, all accounts within the group must have the same advice fee structure. If you would like to group Vision accounts for administration fees only, please use the Macquarie Vision grouping form to create the group and the Advice Fee Form to apply your adviser service fee/s to each individual account in the group.
  • Tiered adviser fees loaded to the group are first calculated on the total Funds Under Administration (FUA) balance of the FUA of all accounts and then pro rated to each account in the account group based on the proportion of FUA held in each account. Flat adviser fees for grouped accounts will be pro rated by FUA across the accounts in the same account type. For Macquarie Vision accounts grouped for fees containing non super accounts, you can also elect the % split of fees to be charged per account instead of being pro rated.

How can I manage Wrap groups in Adviser Online?

Create a Wrap group

You can create new groups through Adviser Online.

To create a Wrap group:

  1. Hover over Clients in the side navigation and select Wrap groups
  2. Select the + icon in the top right corner  
  3. Enter the group details and navigate through the ‘Create group’ flow, selecting ‘Fee’ or ‘Reporting’ as the group type  
  4. If you have created a Fee group, you can navigate to the Advice Fee Form by selecting ‘Advice Fee Form’ on each account row.

Please note, creation of fee groups using Adviser Online:

Edit a Wrap group

You can edit Wrap groups in Adviser Online. When editing you can select which accounts to group and their group type.

To edit a group:

  1. Log in to Adviser Online
  2. Select Clients from the menu under the Macquarie icon and click Wrap Groups
  3. Search for the group using the group name number or scroll to find the group
  4. Click the group name
  5. Click the pencil icon to edit the group
  6. Make the required changes
  7. Click Submit.

Please note, editing fee groups using Adviser Online requires Full Transact access for Macquarie Wrap.
 

Add an account to a group

You can add an account to an existing group through our online forms. The following forms have been updated to facilitate this:

  • Wrap account application
  • Advice Fee Form
  • Switch application (when switching between superannuation and pension)

Maintenance of fee groups is not available using Adviser Online for Macquarie Vision. Please use the Macquarie Vision Fee Grouping form.

 

Delete a Wrap group

If a Wrap group is no longer required, you can delete it in Adviser Online. Please note that this action can’t be undone. If you change your mind, you’ll need to create a new group.

To delete a group:

  1. Log in to Adviser Online
  2. Select Clients from the menu under the Macquarie icon and click Wrap Groups
  3. Search for the group using the group name number or scroll to find the group
  4. Click the group name
  5. Click the bin icon to delete the group
  6. Press Delete to confirm you want to delete the group
  7. Click Submit.

Please note, deleting fee groups using Adviser Online:

Check my client's accounts are grouped

You can see information about grouped accounts in Adviser Online, including

  • which accounts are grouped
  • what group type (Fee and/or Reporting) they’re a part of.

To check your Wrap groups: 

  1. Log in to Adviser Online
  2. Filter by Wrap Groups in the global search bar
  3. Search for the group name or group number
  4. Click the group name.

From this screen you’ll be able to see all the accounts within the group. You’ll also be able to see their account status and their account balance.

Request to view other accounts in the group

Your clients will only see accounts linked to their Macquarie ID. They won’t be able to see other accounts in their group. This gives you and your client comfort that clients can benefit from any applicable account grouping fee discounts while also ensuring they’re not sacrificing their own privacy. 

If your clients want to give another individual access to view their account, they still have that option. They’ll just need to complete a Third Party Authority form confirming their authorisation to us.  The form can be found under the heading ‘Third party authority’ at Adviser Tools.

How are closed accounts treated for fee purposes?

For Vision accounts only, if an account is closed part way through the month, it will be treated as an individual account for adviser fee purposes. The closed account will not be considered part of the group for fee calculating purposes from, and including, the month the account was closed.

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