Orion Portfolio Accounting vs Portfolio Performance

Orion Portfolio Accounting provides portfolio accounting, performance reporting and billing for financial advisors and firms. It includes advisory fee billing, household-level rebalancing and trading, a client portal and mobile app, plus professional services, cloud data warehousing and data services. Advisors can assemble personalized reports using drag-and-drop controls and sub-report options. Orion says it reconciles brokerage data with custodians overnight, aiming to have positions reconciled before the U.S. market opens on a typical trading day. The platform lists hundreds of integrations and an open API framework, including an AltExchange connection for alternative-asset aggregation, reporting and billing. It is available standalone or bundled in Orion Foundation, Essentials or Advantage Stacks, with module availability varying by tier. Standalone pricing is on request and depends on firm size, assets under management and configuration. Stack prices start at $13,000 a year for Foundation, $18,000 a year for Essentials and $28,000 a year for Advantage. Orion lists Android, iOS, web and API availability, and offers support by chat, phone, email and co-browsing.

Portfolio Performance is a free desktop application for tracking securities portfolios across accounts. It calculates performance using true-time weighted return and internal rate of return, and provides overviews, key figures, charts, and historical price tracking. Users can classify securities, examine asset allocation and risk, plan rebalancing, and track tax lots. Purchases, sales, taxes, fees, and other transactions can be entered, or statements can be imported from online banks and brokers. Historical prices can come from sources such as HTML, JSON, Yahoo Finance, Quandl, AlphaVantage, and CoinGecko, as well as a built-in provider for German and US stocks. Portfolio data is stored in XML and can be exported as CSV or JSON. The mobile app reads a desktop portfolio file for viewing and analysis, but does not allow edits. It supports iOS and Android; the desktop application runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Optional mobile subscriptions are listed at $3 a month or $25 a year. The project began in 2012, and its source code is licensed under the Eclipse Public License 1.0.