How to update share prices for stock funds not publicly traded?

I am trying to figure out how (in Quicken Deluxe 2005) to manually update the share prices for stock funds that are not traded publicly.

I have invested in three stock funds through the financial advisor at my bank. I believe the term for them is UTF. These funds have no tickers I can look up, though they do have Cusip numbers.

Although I have the ability to manually log onto the Web page for these funds and, at any time, get the share prices and account balances, I cannot set up automatic download into Quicken. This financial institution does not appear in the list when setting up the account. So Quicken's instructions are to download the first time on the financial institution's Web page (such as by pressing a "Download to Quicken" button). However, there is no such ability on the Web page. The financial institution claims you can monitor the funds in Quicken and their instructions are to set this up in Quicken. Mr Rock, meet Mr Hard Place.

So the only viable alternative I can see is setting up the funds as mutual funds in Quicken without an online-capable financial institution (I have done this part) and then periodically manually updating the share prices. It is this latter that I have not been able to figure out how to do.

I have looked in the Quicken online help. I have looked in the book /Quicken

2005: The Official Guide/, by Maria Langer. And I have looked in the book /Quicken 2005 for Dummies/, by Stephen L. Nelson. No help yet.

Any suggestions from you eminent and learned Quicken experts out there?

-- Steve Koterski Atlanta, Georgia

"Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly."

-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Reply to
Steve Koterski
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Got to 'Investing Center' Select the 'Show: Price Update' view. Key your share prices in the appropriate column for each security.

Reply to
JM

Entering prices manually is cumbersome but not complicated.

Investing > Security Detail View > (select the security) > Update > Edit Price History

Reply to
John Pollard

Thanks! That did it.

You're right, it is cumbersome. It is also not real intuitive. But having a cumbersome update occasionally is better than having no updates at all.

-- Steve Koterski Atlanta, Georgia

"Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly."

-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Reply to
Steve Koterski

Sorry, but I could not find this option. In the Investing Center, the Show drop-down list did not have a Price Update option and included only the options:

Value Recent Performance Historic Performance Fundamentals Quotes Mutual Funds Asset Allocation Tax Implications Employee Stock Options

But don't fret over it. The suggestion John Pollard gave did the trick.

Curiously, though, that Show drop-down included a number of custom options (Custom1, Custom2, and so on to Custom9). It suggests there is some customization in the view that one can do. Looks like something fun if I can figure it out.

-- Steve Koterski Atlanta, Georgia

"Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly."

-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Reply to
Steve Koterski

JM's suggestion will also work. There are two reasons why I don't usually give it: it requires that you pay close attention to the "As of" date or you will enter prices for the wrong date ... possibly wiping out good prices; and that option was not available in the first versions of Quicken I used, and I just plain forget to tell others, though I use it myself. It is definitely easier than the "Update > Edit Prices" for updating multiple securities for the same price date.

Reply to
John Pollard

Although not obvious, the fields in the "Quote/Price" column can be modified. And using the arrow up or arrow down after changing the price will cause the change to stick and move you to the next field to modify.

Every "Show" view can be customized.

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John Pollard

I meant to add, those views can be customized by clicking "Options > Customize Current View". Each view will retain its own customizations.

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John Pollard

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