Holdings

A holding is your position in a specific instrument in a particular transaction portfolio.

LUSID is a transaction-based system. It does not maintain a static record of your holdings in a portfolio but rather generates them on demand from the stored history of transactions, replayed in date order. Note you can manually set or adjust holdings if you don’t have a feed of transactions.

This process is controlled using transaction types. Every transaction in a portfolio must resolve to a transaction type that defines the precise economic impact; that is, the effect on your holding in the instrument, and also potentially on holdings in other instruments in the portfolio (such as currency holdings).

For example, the built-in Buy transaction type provided with LUSID is intended to signal a purchase of a security such as an equity or bond. When you generate a holdings report, for every transaction with a transaction type of Buy, LUSID automatically:

• Increases your holding in the security instrument (ie. BP) by the number of units purchased in the transaction.

• Decreases your holding in the settlement currency instrument (ie. GBP) by the total consideration.

Note: LUSID reports holdings differently on the trade date vs. the settlement date. A holding has a holding type that indicates its state.

By default, LUSID reports holdings at the instrument level; that is, one holding per security instrument per settlement currency in the portfolio, and one holding per currency instrument. You can change this:

• Using sub-holding keys (SHKs). For example, you could divide your overall position in BP into two holdings representing different investment strategies.

• Using tax lots, to segregate and expand instrument holdings into separate tax lots according to a particular liquidation strategy.

You can combine these mechanisms using custodian accounts.

Providing you have appropriate permissions, you can generate a holdings report for a transaction portfolio from the Holdings dashboard in the LUSID web app:

Alternatively, you can interact with holdings programmatically:

• Using appropriate API endpoints in the Transaction Portfolios collection.

• Using the equivalent methods in the LUSID SDK.

• If you have a Luminesce license, using dedicated read and write providers.

Explanation: See the big picture

• Understanding how LUSID uses transaction types to generate holdings

Reference: Understand concepts and implications

• What is a sub-holding key (SHK)?

• What are the holding types?

• What is a holding ID?

• What are tax lots, and how does LUSID support tax lot accounting?

• Segregating holdings using custodian accounts

How-to guides: Get something done

• How do I generate a holdings report?

• How do I manually adjust or set holdings?

• How do I reconcile holdings?