Mutual Fund Conversion

Using quicken Home & Business 2010 (I have 2011 but not installed yet).

I have a mutual fund that did an internal conversion. The name changed slightly (Vanguard Wellington to Vanguard Wellington Fund Admiral) and the cost per shares is different. Basically it's the same as doing a Sale and a Buy resulting in the exact same Market Value (different number of shares of course). However, if I do a sale/buy, the reports will show that I owe all sorts of taxes. This is not the case because this was done internally.

I've looked at the Quicken 2010 features. When I click "Enter a Transaction" I can choose the transaction type. I see the option "Mutual Fund Has Changed Names". This is a fairly new feature but does not take into consideration the difference share price.

Why can't Quicken allow an easy method for these internal transfers? Thanks in advance.

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JCO
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Use Shares-Removed and Shares-Added with same cost but different share quantity. Shares-Added provides for Acquired Date which is purchase date of Shares-Removed.

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Zaidy036

In many cases you can use a Corporate Acquisition for this, especially if all the shares you own will be converted. Corporate Acquisition is a pseudo-transaction that generates a shares removed transaction and one shares added transaction for each old lot, to do the "conversion".

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John Pollard

This seems to work fine. I did Shares out on 12/8, Fund Name Change on 12/8 then Shares In on 12/8. However, Quicken did not ask me if the name change is to be applied to the entire history or just future events (as it once did before). Therefore, when I view this fund, it shows the new fund Name throughout the fund. I don?t know if this is an issue or not. Also, the Mutual Fund Name Change gets recorded as a "Reminder". I thought this was an error and that I selected "Reminder" so I repeated the action. The Name changes is recorded as a Reminder.

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Use Shares-Removed and Shares-Added with same cost but different share quantity. Shares-Added provides for Acquired Date which is purchase date of Shares-Removed.

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JCO

I did not see this option but I did implement what Zaidy036 had me do. Thanks

In many cases you can use a Corporate Acquisition for this, especially if all the shares you own will be converted. Corporate Acquisition is a pseudo-transaction that generates a shares removed transaction and one shares added transaction for each old lot, to do the "conversion".

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JCO

I did see an implication that I did not see earlier. Maybe you have some idea why this is the case: I reconciled my account and when viewing transaction the fund shares amount and cost per share is perfect. The value of the fund is exactly what it should be too.

When I click from "Transaction" view to "Overview", Tab at the top, then set the this to show "Value", it shows the shares to be off. In fact, it shows the shares to be lower by 7.05 shares therefore my Market Value at

12/31 is incorrect. What's weird about this is that I can go back to "Transaction" View and everything is perfect. Why do the two views show a different amount of Shares (causing a different Market Value) for the same date ending 12/31?

I can't re-adjust the shares because in Transaction mode the shares are already perfect. I know the obvious answer someone will be say is some type of rounding error. But I've never seen this before. None of my other funds have done this. I always review all mutual funds in both views and use both views all the time.

Please let me know.

Use Shares-Removed and Shares-Added with same cost but different share quantity. Shares-Added provides for Acquired Date which is purchase date of Shares-Removed.

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JCO

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