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Vanguard High Yield Corporate Fund Error

I have a very strange problem with ONE of the the funds in my Vanguard retirement account, the Vanguard High Yield Corp Bond fund.

Yesterday I looked at my Vanguard total account balance and saw it was WAY higher than it should have been. This account contains 5 or 6 active mutual funds and has history going back several years.

When I looked in the overview tab, all amounts were in line except the Vanguard High Yield Corp Bond fund (VWEHX). In the overview tab, this was showing the initial purchase transaction I made on 3/9/2009 as bring purchased at a price of 0.0778 and purchasing 888,754,753 shares ( for example ). When I went into the transaction register, it showed the proper prices and amounts : $4.14/share and 650 shares for the 3/9/09 date. There were also a few dividends in March and April that were showing up as scrambled amounts amounts.

This error only appeared in the past 3 days; prior to that the totals were fine.

I tried to delete the bad transactions and reenter but they kept showing up as bad numbers in the overview.

Only when I moved the transaction date to after 6/13/2009 did the overview and transaction tabs match.

So I looks like for this particular fund, any transactions entered before 6/13/2009 will be FUBARED. I also have Fidelity Equity Income, a TR Price Midcap and a few others held in the Vanguard account which seem to be fine.

Has anyone else seen this type of error?

Reply to
John Doe
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Did you try "recalculating" your Quicken account register.

With the account opened to the Transaction list, enter CTRL+Z (that's; hold down the CTRL key while keying the letter Z). You should receive a message from Quicken asking you to confirm the recalculation.

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John Pollard

John, Learn something every day. No I did not try and recalculate, did not know I ever had to.

---thought it was done whenever I opened the quicken file.

Stubby, How do you delete a quote from the file?

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John Doe

It's not. But normally, it's not necessary.

It seems that on occasion, one or more transactions gets some sort of corruption, and a recalculation can sometimes fix that.

You could also try Validating a Quicken Copy of your data, though Validate has a poor record for finding and fixing investment account problems.

If there is corruption that recalculate and Validate don't fix, one other area where corruption can occur is in your price history. Your problem doesn't sound like the typical price history corruption, but checking for it is easy and harmless. With Quicken closed, rename the Windows file QDATA.QPH (where QDATA is the name of your Quicken data). Start Quicken, do a price history download ... and in your case, probably delete and re-enter the transactions in question. If this helps, there are several ways to recover "lost" historical prices ... if it doesn't help, you just rename the old price history file back.

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John Pollard

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