Brokerage and investment statements
Coming Q4 2026Follow the money into shares
An investment account is where cash stops looking like cash: it becomes shares, pays a dividend that buys more shares, gets sold, and leaves as cash again. CounselPro reads brokerage and retirement statements the way it reads bank statements, with every holding, trade and gain checked against the totals the statement printed.
- Holdings, trades and gains
- Checked against the printed totals
- Source page on every row
Cases that turn on a brokerage account
A bank ledger shows cash moving. A brokerage statement shows what it became, and that is usually where the question a case turns on is answered.
Divorce
An account left off the financial disclosure still paid a dividend into checking last July, and the estate is being divided on a brokerage value from two years ago.
Probate
The family kept a drawer of statements and the court wants the portfolio reconstructed: what was held, what it was worth, and what was sold in the last year.
Bankruptcy
Cash moved into a retirement account in the weeks before filing. The statements say what was bought with it, and the trustee wants the dates.
Fraud and business litigation
Shares were sold and the proceeds went somewhere. The sale is on one statement, the wire out is on the next, and the account it landed in is on neither.
The portfolio dashboard
Every holding, trade and gain
Each investment statement in the stack comes back as four tables: what was held at period end, what was bought and sold, what each sale realized, and the cash that moved. Every row carries the page it was printed on, so a figure in the table is a figure you can open.
Accuracy
Checked against the printed totals
A brokerage statement prints a total for every section it carries. CounselPro adds each section up and compares it to that line, and a section that comes up short is read again against the page image until the figures match what the statement printed.
Holdings
Every position at period end, and the four values added up against the market value the statement prints.
72,146.36
Matches p. 2
Activity
Every buy, sell, dividend, contribution and distribution, dated and signed, and totalled against the section line.
31 entries
Matches p. 5 to 28
Realized gains
Each closed position with its proceeds, its cost, and the gain, split long and short term as the statement splits it.
7,668.24
Matches p. 27
Cash
The money that came in and went out, read on its own ledger beside the bank statements, so the transaction totals stand on their own.
58,700.00
Out on p. 28
What the account was worth
Every statement prints a market value at period end, and every period end is on the page. Value the estate on the quarter the court cares about, and show the page that says so.
Where the value went
The account grew on a contribution in October and fell in February on a sale and a transfer out. Both are dated, and both keep their page.
Delgado matter · Brokerage ••3307
$72,146.36 Dec 2023
4 positions
- Index fund $53,657
- Bond fund $10,420
- Stock $5,956
- Cash $2,113
The trail an undisclosed account leaves
An account that was left off the disclosure is still wired to the accounts that were on it. Cash goes out to it as a transfer, a dividend comes back from it, and each one is a row on a statement you already hold. CounselPro reads the bank statements and the brokerage statements as one case, so the transfer out of checking and the shares it bought sit in the same table.
| Date | Description | Statement | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 2023 | Transfer to Brokerage ••3307 | Checking ••5693 | −$50,000.00 | p. 3 |
| Jul 3, 2023 | Dividend · Schwab ••8841On no disclosure | Checking ••5693 | +$412.00 | p. 11 |
| Oct 2, 2023 | Transfer to Brokerage ••3307 | Checking ••5693 | −$18,000.00 | p. 19 |
| Feb 15, 2024 | Transfer to Schwab ••8841On no disclosure | Brokerage ••3307 | −$58,700.00 | p. 28 |
Delgado matter · Checking ••5693 and Brokerage ••3307
Scope
- Brokerage, investment and retirement statements, read alongside the bank, credit card and check statements in the same case.
- Holdings at period end, buy and sell activity, dividends and distributions, realized gains and losses, and the cash that moved. Each is checked against the total the statement prints for it.
- The securities read stands beside the transaction ledger rather than inside it. The bank-statement totals are their own record, and a brokerage page adds to the case without touching them.
- A brokerage or investment statement page costs two credits, because it packs far more onto each page than a bank statement does. Bank, card and check pages cost one.
- Coming in the fourth quarter of 2026 on Single Project, Plus and Premier. You are billed for the capability when it ships, and only then.
- Statements are encrypted on the way in and while they sit with us, the infrastructure we run on is checked by outside auditors, and client records are never used to train a model.
Bring the account you doubt
Start with the brokerage statements from the account whose value nobody agrees on, or the checking statements with a dividend arriving from an account that is on no list. That is the file worth testing this on.
Brokerage and investment statements, coming Q4 2026