Glossary · Custody and data
Held-away assets are client holdings an advisor can see and advise on but does not custody or directly manage — a workplace retirement plan, an outside brokerage account.
They matter for allocation, for wash-sale awareness and for advice. Showing them in a report requires care about what is being represented, because a valuation the advisor did not produce and cannot reconcile is a different kind of number.
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