Best Practices for Creating Portfolios

Learn more about recommendations for creating portfolios in a workspace.

If your organization is underwriting individual assets or child deals within a parent deal, we recommend using TermSheet Portfolios. 

Review the following questions to determine the best workflow for your organization.

Are portfolios right for your workspace?

πŸ“ Does your organization underwrite individual assets or child deals within a portfolio/parent deal?

βœ…  TermSheet Portfolios allow teams to add assets to child deals that live within a parent deal. 
        What are Portfolios?

βœ… TermSheet Portfolios can be linked to Excel models and updated via the TermSheet Add-in for Excel
         Link an Excel Model to a TermSheet Deal
βœ… TermSheet Portfolios can provide a summary of child deal data via the panel titled "Tables (Legacy)"

         Add a Tables Panel to Deal Layout

What information do you have prior to creating the portfolio?

🏬Do you/do you want to have a list of assets existing in TermSheet Properties before you create the portfolio? 

βœ… If you have a list of known assets that you are targeting, they can be uploaded into TermSheet via Imports in bulk.

        Import Data to TermSheet

βœ… Once the Properties have been added to the workspace, they can be added to a portfolio as child deals. 

        Add Properties to a Deal or Portfolio


🏫Do you/do you want to enter assets to TermSheet after you create a portfolio?

βœ… If you want to create a Portfolio in TermSheet and then add child deals later, start by adding a deal using the "Enter Details" option.

Step 1 is to create a deal with a deal name. 

       Add a Deal 

βœ…Next, convert the deal to a portfolio. Once converted the + icon in the Locations panel can be used to add child deals to the portfolio.

       Convert a Deal to a Portfolio

 


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