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Last updated: 8/18/2026


Main Note
Type Normal Existing – Visit already in Salesforce
Normal New – Creating new meeting
Special Instructions SFM instructions
Sample: “Hey DAN associate, please change John’s segmentation to a B”
SFM SFM – Wholesaler
ASR – Internal Wholesaler
SSC – Scheduler
Internal Comments Action items for teammates
Date

Normal Existing – Date & Time in Salesforce or Date & Time dictated if it needs to be changed per SFMs verbatim.

Normal New – Start Date & Time and End Date & Time must be filled out (CRITICAL FIELD)

Time

Normal Existing – Date & Time in Salesforce or Date & Time dictated if it needs to be changed per SFMs verbatim.

Normal New – Start Date & Time and End Date & Time must be filled out (CRITICAL FIELD)

Advisor Name

Complete name in Salesforce

• Complete name captured in the first name field.
• Nicknames captured in Text field

For cancelled meetings, no need to populate the contacts field. Leave it blank. Unless there’s another attendee mentioned in the meeting notes.

CRD  
Organization & Location Provide if there are multiple matches for FA name (non-critical)
Location Provide if there are multiple matches for FA name (non-critical)
FF

Follow-up subject format:
PIT Task
PIT Task – 2
PIT Task – 2 – Due Date 9/10/24
PIT Task – Due Date 9/10/24
PIT Task – Medium

*Only set due date if specific date is mentioned

Visit ID

Normal Existing – Event ID in Salesforce
Normal New – Default: Name of the FA – Firm Name – City, State (Abbreviation)

(Ex.: John Park – Hey DAN – Greenville, OH)

Feedback

Capture dictation in smart and clean verbatim.

1st paragraph – Capture all details
(critical) contacts, date & time (including days of the week, additional FA or non-FA attendees, as well as attendees from CG/American Funds)
(major) firm, location & time zone

Example:

Strict –  “Meeting to log for John Park, Hey DAN, Greenville, Ohio. That took place on Wednesday, June 24 from10 to 11 in the morning.”
Clean – “Meeting with John Park of Hey DAN in Greenville, Ohio on Wednesday, June 24 from10:00 AM to 11:00 AM.”

“breakfast, lunch, dinner, noon” – no default value as time. Capture in the note as is. Do not assume time.

*Bold for literature pieces and CG products*

Tasks:
PIT Task for [name] – Due Date 00/00/00: [follow-up note] Request for [name] – Due Date 00/00/00: [request note] *Only capture due date if it was provided*

Sample dictations and how they are captured in the Note Text field:

• “Please assign a task to IWS, John Hay, to please send him the Midyear Outlook”
→ PIT Task for John Hay: Please send him the Midyear Outlook” 

• “Assign a task to my SSC, Jonathan Hue, to schedule a meeting with him sometime this October”
→ Request for Jonathan Hue: Schedule a meeting with him sometime this October”

Visit Type

Existing Visits: Mirror whatever is displayed in Salesforce. Default is Scheduled Meeting
New Visits: Default is Unscheduled Meeting

For Finals Meeting, if there’s no attendee mentioned in the recording, whoever is the primary contact of the visit will be added instead, no need to send clarification email

Visit Status Always mark “Done”, otherwise, canceled by adviser if FA did not attend the meeting (first indication if canceled or rescheduled)
Marketing Event to add ME for tagging:
– Merrill Models (Merrill MAI models, Vanguard hybrid models, American Funds Vanguard models)
– Merrill Vanguard/CG Partnered Meeting (joint meeting with Vanguard wholesaler)
Opportunity to add Instructed by SFM
– “Please tie an opportunity to my meeting”
Focus Explicitly mentioned
– Usually by Jeff Malbasa
SFDC Changes Changes that needs to be made to Salesforce.
Ex. “Change time”
Additional Attendees Attendees without Salesforce or FINRA profile
Additional Owner(s)

Capital Group SFMs/Resources

SFM mentions another CG Employee, populate Contact or Additional Contact field?

1) If CG employee has calendar = Additional Owner
2) If CG employee has no calendar but role is an SFM’s internal partner (iWS & SSCs) = Contacts 
3) If CG employee has no calendar and not an internal partner = Additional Contact 

Scheduled by Select “External SFM” for Normal-New note types
Bus. Segment Discussed Please refer to Trigger Words Sheet for more info
Advisor Discussed Topics *Select the applicable topic based on the Advisor Selected Topics in Salesforce.
Investment Themes Please refer to Trigger Words Sheet for more info
Offering Discussed Please refer to Trigger Words Sheet for more info
Client Concerns Please refer to Trigger Words Sheet for more info
Retail Competitor *Select as explicitly mentioned
Only select “other” if retail competitor mentioned is not on the list
Top Competitor Fund *Select as explicit mentioned
RP Propriety Follow-up

Most commonly used:
Competition
– task to compare CG with competitor

Cost Comparison Created/Edited
– task to create cost comparison between RKD and PP-TPA

Other
– task to call, email, schedule

*Select as explicitly mentioned

Portfolio Resources Please refer to the Firm Home Office Platform Sheet for more info
MLA *Select as explicitly mentioned
Sub-campaign ME Tick if a sub-campaign ME is linked to the visit
Captured Feedback Via*

TEXT – receive through emails and by running the SCRM report
*Text – SCRM
*Text – Sign-In Sheet
*Text – Closeout Request (only if SFM asked to closeout open meetings via email)
*Text – Emailed Notes

VOICE – received through recordings
*Voice
*Voice – Closeout Request (only if SFM asked to closeout open meetings via recording)

Engagement Type*

Default:

For RP and WM if there is a link in the Visit for a Webex or Zoom meeting then please use: Video

If the feedback specifically says they had a phone call with someone, you can assume: Phone

All other default to: In Person

Cancelled/Rescheduled: N/A

Note: If this field already has a value in Salesforce, we leave it as is and just mirror that value in Dana. The default only applies to those visits that the Engagement Type field is not yet populated

   
Follow-up Note
Advisor Name Complete Name in Salesforce and sequence number.
CRD  
Organization  
Location  
Type Default: Task
Due Date

Default is the next business date unless specified by the SFM

Tasks assigned to SFMs
– Set due date to the specified date mentioned
– Set due date to next business day when due date was not specified

ex. SFM called in on Wednesday, October 2 ET, and assigned a task:
SFM: “Please assign a task to myself to schedule a meeting with Dave to next Tuesday.”
DUE DATE = October 8 ET

SFM: “Please assign a task to myself to schedule a meeting with Dave next week.”
DUE DATE = next business day (not specified)

Tasks assigned to other roles
– Set due date when explicitly mentioned “set the due date”
– Set due date to next business day when due date was not specified

ex. SFM called in on Tuesday, October 1, and assigned a task:
SFM: “Please assign a task to my internal to schedule a meeting with Dave and set the due date to next Tuesday.”
DUE DATE next business day (since it was not specified)

SFM: “Please assign a task to my internal to schedule a meeting with Dave and set the due date to October 8.”
DUE DATE = October 8

Subject Formula for our task subject –> (# of action items) X (# of contacts)
Follow-up subject format:
PIT Task
PIT Tasks – 2
PIT Tasks – 2 – Due Date 9/10/24
PIT Task – Due Date 9/10/24
PIT Task – Medium
*Only set due date if specific date is mentioned
Notes

Copy the task from the main note and paste it in here. If there’s more than one contact, the format should be:

Contact:
Abz
Dean
Dawn

Call Abz, Dean, and Dawn. Email them the cheat sheet.

Assigned To: Select ASR’s name if the task was assigned to the ASR.
Otherwise, utilize the “Assigned To (Other) field at the bottom
Assigned To Other Task Assignee

Trigger Words

Business Segment Discussed: Advisory Offerings: PSTAGI, PC Leadership
Advisory   Retail   Retirement    
*Portfolio/ Portfolio Construction, fee-based models *CG funds except Portfolio Funds (refer to Capital Group Funds tab) bonds, munis, equity and SMAs SIMPLE, SEP, IRA, Roth Defined Contribution (DC) plans, RP (retirement plans) , plan sponsor, recordkeeper
*Capital Group Literature pieces except retirement literature fee-based, PC Leadership (trigger words below) A-,B-,C-,D- share classes   target date Defined Benefit (DB) 529, 401(k), 408(b)(2), 457(b), 403(b) , 3(38), 3(21), 3(16)
*Investor meeting (visit type) F-share class (F-2 Direct, F-2 Direct-at-Fund program), F-2 shares ETFs, ETF funds (refer to capital Group Funds tab), ETFs-general   Enrollment, Education, & Training (Visit Type) ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) DC Focus Funds
outlook Third-Party Models mutual funds   TPA (third-party administrator) Health Savings Account (HSA) **Retirement plan literature
Two Plans A Year (CG lit), Building a sustainable retirement income plan, The Art of the One-Meeting Close, Compete with Confidence, My Best Retirement
*Firm Home Office Platforms *Portfolio Funds (refer to Capital Group Funds tab) fixed income   RecordkeeperDirect, PlanPremier, PlanPremier-TPA R-share class *any mention of plan names (specific & existing in Salesforce
Investment Themes
Capital Advantage DOL Investment Insights Market Volatility Portfolio Construction Retirement Income Target Date
fund single sheets/ fact sheets Department of Labor, DOL outlook Select as explicitly mentioned portfolio construction, portfolio allocation/PAR, portfolio consultation, PC Leadership, portfolio analysis, portfolio review Retirement Income Target dates
Refer to the “Literatures, Brochures” tab or CG literature site   Specific fund performance (updates, results, history)
Examples:
• updates on Bond Fund of America = Tick Investment Insights
• updates on our ETFs / funds = Don’t tick Investment Insights
down/up market, deflation/inflation, market high, bullish, bearish, recession, down side, up side Building portfolios Pursuing Rising Income, RIPS (Retirement Income Portfolio Series) Target Date Fund / AFTD
Joint meeting with other CG employee/s   overweight, underweight, quarterly attribution report (QAR) Keys to Prevailing Through Stock Market Declines, Pursuing Rising Income Upgrade the Core (CG lit)   Target Date Fund Series (TDRS)
College Target Date Series (CTDS)
             
    “updates on our target date fund / target date / target date results”        
             
      Discussion about market performance      
Client Concerns
Active Versus Passive Market Volatility Retirement Income Advertising      
Select as explicitly mentioned Select as explicitly mentioned Select as explicitly mentioned Select as explicitly mentioned      
  Select if there’s anything being discussed indicating that the contact is concerned about the behavior of the markets. Sample trigger words are:
volatility, inflation, declines, increase, bearish, bullish, crisis, recession, etc.
  Advertisement, Commercials, Ads, Billboards      
Portfolio Resources
Home Office Model 3rd Party Models
*Pls refer to Firm Home Office Platform tab Envestnet/SEI/AssetMark
             
“Art of the One-Meeting Close” “ICA Guide, ICA Mountain Chart / Mountain Chart” “Portfolio Series/PSB/PSG/PSGG/PSGI/PSI/PSP/PSTAI/PSTEP” “Upgrade the Core” “Three-Pack/Three Amigos” “Muni Three-Pack/Three-Pack of Munis” “Three-Pack of Fixed Income”
Bus. Segment Discussed: Retirement
Investment Themes: Capital Advantage
*No need to tick Advisory since this literature is about retirement plans.
Bus. Segment Discussed: Advisory
Investment Themes: Capital Advantage
Offerings Discussed: ICA
*No need to tick Retail.
**We only tick Retail if the Investment Company of America (ICA) fund was mentioned.
Bus. Segment Discussed: Advisory
Offerings Discussed: Portfolio Series/PSB/PSG/PSGG/PSGI/PSI/PSP/PSTAI/PSTEP
*No need to tick Retail for these funds.
Bus. Segment Discussed: Advisory
Investment Themes: Capital Advantage, Portfolio Construction
Bus. Segment Discussed: Retail
Offerings Discussed: CIB, AMBAL, IFA
Bus. Segment Discussed: Retail
Offerings Discussed: LTEX, AHIM, TEBFA
Bus. Segment Discussed: Retail
Offerings Discussed: BFA, SBF, MSI
             
“Retirement Income” “target date/s fund” “target date series” “Target Date Retirement Series” We discussed about “all ETFs” “director of fixed income / portfolio specialist” all ETFs
Investment Themes: Retirement Income
*Do not tick Retirement
Bus. Segment Discussed: Retirement
Investment Themes: Target Date
Bus. Segment Discussed: Retirement
Investment Themes: Target Date
*Do not tick TDRS in Offerings Discussed
Bus. Segment Discussed: Retirement
Investment Themes: Target Date
Offerings Discussed: TDRS
Business Segment Discussed: Retail
Offerings: ETFs-general
Roles can be triaged moving forward as long as the trigger words were mentioned in the meeting notes. Business Segment Discussed: Retail
The Outlook outlook fund single sheets/single sheets/fact sheets Core Four ETFs/ETF Core Four Model Wealth Portfolios (MWP) / Signature Portfolios (Sig Port) PC Leadership ABLEAmerica
Business Segment Discussed: Advisory
Investment Themes:
Capital Advantage, Investment Insights
Business Segment Discussed: Advisory
Investment Themes:
Investment Insights
Investment Themes:
Capital Advantage
Business Segment Discussed: Advisory, Retail
Investment Themes: Capital Advantage
Offerings Discussed: ETFs-general, CGDV, CGGR, CGXU, CGCP
Business Segment Discussed: Advisory
Offerings: PC Leadership
Portfolio Resources: Home Office Model (disclaimer: platform mentioned should correspond with the firm first before ticking)

Trigger words:

PC
Portfolio Construction
Portfolio Analysis
PC program
Portfolio conversation or discussion
Portfolio Consultation
Advisor portfolio insights
PC Insights
Portfolio Insights
PC Leadership

Business Segment Discussed: Retirement
Offerings: ABLEAmerica
2025 Outlook / Midyear Outlook / 2025 Market Outlook AFRIS / RIPS “cash off the sidelines piece / brochure” “iShares” PC Insights Yo-Yo Tariffs piece / Guide to Tariffs
Business Segment Discussed: Advisory
Investment Themes: Capital Advantage
Business Segment Discussed: Advisory
Investment Themes: Retirement Income
Offering Discussed: AFRIS (American Funds Retirement Income Portfolio Series, PC Leadership
Business Segment Discussed: Advisory
Investment Themes: Capital Advantage
Disclaimer: the word “piece” or “brochure” should be included in the verbatim
Retail Competitor: BlackRock Business Segment Discussed: Advisory
Investment Themes: Capital Advantage
Investment Insights: Market Volatility Business Segment Discussed: Advisory
Investment Themes: Capital Advantage
Disclaimer: the word “piece” or “brochure” should be included
PPS / Public-Private / KKR (if not specified) Practice Management PSCGI / Conservative Growth and Income PSTAGI / Tax-Aware Conservative Growth and Income “ICanRetire single sheet / piece / brochure”    
Offerings: Capital Group KKR Core Plus+
Capital Group KKR Multi-Sector+
Capital Group KKR U.S. Equity+
Offerings: Practice Management Business Segment Discussed: Advisory
Offerings: PSCGI, PC Leadership
Business Segment Discussed: Advisory
Offerings: PSTAGI, PC Leadership
Business Segment Discussed: Advisory
Investment Themes: Capital Advantage
Disclaimer: the word “piece”, “brochure” or “single sheet” should be included in the verbatim
   

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