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title: "Valuation"
slug: "valuations"
status: "update"
updated: 2025-10-30T17:11:25Z
published: 2025-10-30T17:11:25Z
canonical: "support.lusid.com/valuations"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Valuation

LUSID enables you to value:

- One or more transaction portfolios.
- All the portfolios in a portfolio group.
- Notional quantities of arbitrary instruments. This might be useful to value ‘holdings’ without setting up a containing portfolio.
- A fund of funds portfolio that ‘looks through’ into securitised portfolios to value child holdings individually. [More information](/v1/docs/setting-up-and-valuing-a-fund-of-funds-portfolio).

You must specify a *valuation schedule* that comprises either a particular day and time, or multiple days in a range.

Valuation is a complex process that requires you to:

- Load suitable and timely market data into appropriate LUSID stores for each day in the valuation schedule.
- Create a recipe that locates this market data and specifies pricing models appropriate to the types of instruments you wish to value.
- Choose a set of metrics to report that are sorted, filtered, grouped and aggregated meaningfully.

To get started, we recommend you [work through our valuation checklist](/v1/docs/valuation-checklist).

Subsequently, you can:

- [Access a manifest](/v1/docs/how-do-i-access-a-valuation-manifest) to understand how LUSID has generated valuation results.
- [Create an A2B report](/v1/docs/creating-an-a2b-report-to-understand-how-valuations-change-over-time) to understand precisely how valuations have changed between two points in time.

Providing you have appropriate permissions, you can perform a valuation in the [LUSID web app](https://www.lusid.com/app/home), using **Portfolio Management > Valuations**:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/d575ad81-c0ed-4980-bbd1-d59ac5c3de82/Images/Documentation/image-XRJWGN0E.png)

Alternatively, you can perform a valuation programmatically:

- Using the APIs in the [Aggregation](https://www.lusid.com/docs/api/lusid/endpoints/aggregation/GetValuation) collection.
- If you have a Luminesce license, using the [Lusid.Portfolio.Valuation](/v1/docs/lusidportfoliovaluation) provider.

**Explanation**: *See the big picture*

- [Valuation checklist](/v1/docs/valuation-checklist)

**Tutorials**: *Get started by doing something tangible*

- [Getting started: constructing a simple recipe to value equities using mid prices](/v1/docs/constructing-a-simple-recipe-to-value-equities-using-mid-prices)
- [Valuing a multi-asset, multi-region portfolio](/v1/docs/valuing-a-multi-asset-multi-region-portfolio)
- [Creating an A2B report to understand how valuations change over time](/v1/docs/creating-an-a2b-report-to-understand-how-valuations-change-over-time)

**Reference**: *Understand concepts and implications*

- [What is a recipe?](/v1/docs/what-is-a-recipe)
- [Composing dynamic recipes](/v1/docs/composing-dynamic-recipes)
- [What is a metric?](/v1/docs/what-is-a-metric)
- [What pricing models can I use in my valuation?](/v1/docs/what-pricing-models-can-i-use-in-my-valuation)
- [What are instrument 'features'?](/v1/docs/what-are-instrument-features)
- [What market data does my valuation require?](/v1/docs/what-market-data-does-my-valuation-require)
- [What metrics can I include in my valuation report?](/v1/docs/which-metrics-can-i-include-in-my-valuation-report)
- [How does LUSID calculate P&L?](/v1/docs/how-does-lusid-calculate-pl)
- [Scheduling a valuation](/v1/docs/scheduling-a-valuation)
- [Including properties and derived properties in valuation reports](/v1/docs/including-properties-and-derived-properties-in-valuation-reports)
- [Grouping and aggregating metrics to create a meaningful valuation report](/v1/docs/grouping-and-aggregating-metrics-to-create-a-meaningful-valuation-report)
- [Using Carry movement types to configure an A2B report](/v1/docs/using-the-carry-movement-types-to-configure-an-a2b-report)
- [Troubleshooting valuation errors](/v1/docs/troubleshooting-valuation-errors)

**How-to guides**: *Get something done*

- [How do I perform a valuation?](/v1/docs/how-do-i-perform-a-valuation)
- [How do I create or generate a recipe?](/v1/docs/how-do-i-create-or-generate-a-recipe)
- [How do I access a valuation manifest?](/v1/docs/how-do-i-access-a-valuation-manifest)