American Funds account merge

Aug 02, 2009 1 Replies

Does anyone in the group use American funds? Last month this family of funds merged one fund into another and I still can't seem to get the transactions right. Both are found by quicken in the on-line update, but balances are incorrect, and the funds themselves don't show up in the transfer dialog (say you were going to just transfer balances and let it go at that, I can't transfer from one account to the new one since the new one doesn't appear as an account choice, even though I've added it to Quicken and it has transactions in it).



Also, the downloaded transactions create a share balance, but no security value, so they don't appear in net worth.



Any ideas?


Merging securities is usually done with a Corporate Acquisition transaction.

This could be problematic if you have setup your Quicken investment account as a "Single Mutual Fund" account: you'd have to remove that limitation to enter a Corporate Acquisition.

Market Value = number-of-shares * price/share.

Check your price history. [Investing > Security Detail View > (select security) > Update > Edit Price History]

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