Floating Rate Investment Preference Form

Streamline Your Floating Rate Investment Strategy with Paperform

Managing floating rate investments in today's evolving interest rate environment requires careful documentation of investor preferences, benchmark transitions, and risk management strategies. This Floating Rate Investment Preference Form template helps financial advisors, wealth management firms, and investment professionals efficiently capture critical information about client objectives for floating rate securities and interest rate hedging.

Why This Template Matters for Investment Professionals

The transition away from LIBOR to new reference rates like SOFR (Secured Overnight Financing Rate) has created complexity in floating rate investment management. This template addresses modern portfolio requirements by capturing investor preferences across benchmark selection, credit spread targeting, duration management, and hedging strategies—all in one professional, easy-to-complete form.

Whether you're managing fixed income portfolios, advising institutional clients on rate exposure, or structuring floating rate loan investments, this template ensures you gather complete information to align investment strategies with client objectives and regulatory requirements.

Key Features of This Template

This form captures essential details including:

• Investor profile and objectives for floating rate exposure
• LIBOR transition preferences and replacement rate benchmarks (SOFR, Term SOFR, etc.)
• Credit spread strategies and spread duration targets
• Interest rate risk tolerance and hedging requirements
• Portfolio allocation preferences for floating rate securities
• Investment constraints including liquidity needs and regulatory considerations

The conditional logic built into this template ensures that follow-up questions appear based on investment objectives, making it relevant for both conservative income-focused investors and more sophisticated credit-opportunistic strategies.

Perfect for Financial Services Professionals

This template is ideal for:

• Financial advisors gathering client preferences for bond and loan portfolios
• Wealth managers structuring fixed income allocations with rate protection
• Institutional investment teams documenting investment policy statements
• Portfolio managers at banks, asset managers, and family offices
• RIAs and broker-dealers ensuring suitability and compliance documentation

How Paperform Elevates Investment Documentation

Paperform makes it easy to create professional, branded forms that reflect your firm's identity. This template can be customized with your logo, colors, and specific investment products. The clean, modern design ensures clients can complete the form easily on any device—whether they're reviewing investment options at their desk or on their mobile device.

Automate your investment workflow with Stepper: Once a client submits their floating rate preferences, you can use Stepper to automatically route the information to your portfolio management system, trigger CRM updates, notify the appropriate investment team members, and even generate preliminary portfolio recommendations. This automation eliminates manual data entry and ensures faster response times for time-sensitive investment opportunities.

Secure electronic signatures with Papersign: After documenting preferences, you can seamlessly transition to Papersign to obtain client signatures on investment policy statements, advisory agreements, or floating rate fund subscription documents—keeping the entire client onboarding process connected and compliant.

Flexible, Compliant, and Secure

Paperform is SOC 2 Type II compliant, ensuring your sensitive client investment data is protected with enterprise-grade security. You can set up conditional notification emails based on investment amounts, sync responses directly to your CRM or portfolio management software, and maintain a complete audit trail of client preferences.

The form includes customizable success messages where you can provide next steps, schedule a portfolio review meeting, or share educational resources about floating rate strategies and benchmark transitions.

Customize to Your Investment Philosophy

Every investment firm has unique approaches to floating rate management. You can easily modify this template to:

• Add specific fund or strategy options your firm offers
• Include regulatory disclosures or risk warnings
• Capture additional suitability information
• Integrate with your existing onboarding workflows
• Add calculation fields for recommended allocation percentages

Get Started in Minutes

This template is ready to use immediately but fully customizable to match your firm's branding and investment process. Simply adjust the questions, apply your theme, connect your integrations, and start collecting professional investment preference documentation that helps you deliver better portfolio outcomes for your clients.

Paperform's intuitive editor makes it easy for investment professionals—not just tech specialists—to build and modify forms that support sophisticated fixed income and hedging strategies. Join the 500,000+ teams worldwide who trust Paperform to power their most important business processes.