Frequently asked questions
Grouped by what people usually want to establish first: what the platform is, what it covers, how data works, and how we handle security and money.
The platform
ASEAN Asset Management. It is the portfolio administration, analytics and reporting platform of the Vina.Trade ecosystem, serving investors, advisers and institutions across Southeast Asia.
No. AAM never takes custody. Assets stay with your existing banks, brokers and custodians. The platform reads position and transaction records — it has no ability to move money or securities.
No. Rebalancing produces a proposed order list that a person must review and release. Routing and execution take place at your own broker or venue, under your own arrangements. See the platform page for the full scope.
No. AAM measures and reports on portfolios that you or your adviser decide. Nothing on this website or in the platform is a recommendation to buy or sell any instrument, and we publish no forecasts.
They are separate products in the same ecosystem, with separate data. AAM administers portfolios and produces reporting; the terminal at trading.vina.trade is for market analysis and order practice. Either can be used on its own.
Coverage & calculations
Listed equities and ETFs, fixed income, funds and alternatives including private holdings, digital assets, and cash, deposits and FX. They sit in one consolidated ledger with a shared valuation model, which is what makes the combined return figure meaningful.
With a manual or periodic valuation carrying an effective date, a source note and the user who entered it. Stale valuations are flagged as stale in reports rather than carried forward silently, and money-weighted return is used where cash flows are irregular.
Both, for different questions. Time-weighted return isolates investment decisions from the timing of deposits and withdrawals; money-weighted return (IRR) describes what the investor actually experienced. Every figure states the period, cash-flow treatment, pricing source and fee basis it was produced on.
Yes. Reporting currency is chosen per view rather than fixed to the account, and currency effect is shown separately from local investment return so the two are not confused.
Data & onboarding
Through custodian and broker statement imports mapped per source format, price and reference data feeds, or the REST API. Every import is versioned and reversible — a bad file can be rolled back rather than manually unpicked.
We map it. A new source format is quoted as part of the onboarding project, and the mapping is documented so you can see exactly how each column becomes a position or transaction.
It depends on how many sources there are and how much history you load. The sequence is always the same: map each format, load history, then reconcile against a period you have already reported, so you can compare our output with a figure you already trust before switching over.
No, and we would advise against it. A parallel run over at least one reporting cycle is part of guided and project-managed onboarding precisely so that the switch is a decision rather than a leap.
Security & commercial
Role-based access per mandate, encryption in transit and at rest, regular backups with tested restores, and an audit trail that versions rather than overwrites. The security page sets out the detail, including what we do not claim.
It is quoted per engagement, driven by portfolios, users, data connections, instrument complexity and reporting cadence. There is no percentage-of-assets fee and no share of investment performance. See pricing for what each plan includes.
Yes, at any time and at no charge — positions, transactions, valuations and released reports in open formats such as CSV and PDF, with the documentation needed to read them.
Yes, as part of the evaluation rather than after it, and at no charge. Send it with your first enquiry so that any blocker surfaces early.
English and Vietnamese, for both support and client reporting. Report templates can be produced in either language.
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Ask it before you commit. We would rather lose an unsuitable engagement early than discover the mismatch during onboarding.