How to do an investment review?

[Spud]

OK. Zetta, I think Quicken will do what you want it to do. I think part of your frustration stems from what you recently wrote in your blog. Is this correct? You can fix your holdings catagorized as "Other" fairly easily. You gave the example of this fund in your blog: American Capital Income Builder (CAIBX)

If you click on the Investing tab in Quicken, and go to Analysis, you will have a list of your funds there. Click on your CAIBX fund. It will bring up a performance graph. On the left hand side, there is a section called Security Details. Below that, there is a button that says, "Edit Security Details." Name, Symbol, and Type should all be fine. But you can edit the asset class below by clicking the "Mixture" radio button, and then click "Define." You can then enter the percentages of each asset class for your mutual fund. Doing this for each of your funds listed as "Other" should help better define your asset allocation as a whole.

I hope this helps. Let me know if it doesn't and how it doesn't, and I'll see what else I can find out.

[zetta]

Thank you so much, Spud! This will definitely make Quicken more useful to me. Too bad I'll have to manually check it occasionally to make sure the fund manager hasn't change the allocation, but it's better than doing a lot of manual entry every quarter. I'm all about setting things up so I can do a one-click update!

[Spud]

No problem! Glad I could help you out. Maybe we should start a Quicken thread to trade questions/answers/tips.

It might be worth an email to your brokerage firm's customer service department with the list of funds that you have that aren't downloading correctly into Quicken. I think this is something that they can (and should!) change on their end... and then it would automatically update for you when you click the button.

[petta]

smart!