I've heard that the 2017 interface is improved, but features from version-to-version in Quicken tend to be fairly minor. Go to the Premier 2017 version if you decide to upgrade, not to 2016. But you've got a 3-year upgrade cycle from 2015 anyway, so you are getting close I suppose. If not, frankly I'm stumped.Īssuming it is a new option, this one thing would not be enough to prompt me to upgrade by itself. So, further making me suspect this might have been a new option in the 2016 version.įirst wait to see if somebody else chimes in here, and verifies that this is new in Quicken 20. And I found this reference to the procedure on the Quicken website, and you will notice it's dated 2017: So we're looking at the same menu tree for sure. In between all that stuff, I've got many other options, including the one you really want - 'Mutual Fund Conversion'. But my selections end with 'Reminder Transaction' - the last one on your list. My selections do not include either 'Shares Transferred Between Accounts' or 'Mutual Fund Name Change'. When I scroll down, I do see everything you listed exactly in the same order - until the 3rd from the last item on your list, oddly enough. But based on your list, I'm now guessing that this 'Mutual Fund Conversion' option IS new with the 2016 version. Hopefully somebody with the 2015 version can pipe in here and verify. Tom - thanks for the list, it was useful in tracing this issue down. Although I would do a backup immediately before I try it for the first time, until I actually make sure it works correctly.

Not a big deal, but I now think the first way is far better and will use that in the future. However, if you use the IRR report, this method does incorrectly show the two funds at security level detail (while still correctly showing IRR for total investment account). And if taxes are an issue, you have to enter the lots correctly. That also works, in terms of not incorrectly reporting gains and in terms of correctly stating cost basis. What I had done instead was to use the Add/Remove shares option. I've had maybe 4 of these conversions in the last decade. If you just use the drop-down 'Action' in the investment register, that choice oddly does not appear. Quicken will do the conversion.įrankly, until I just double-checked my initial answer to your question, I had never seen this option.

When you enter the conversion details, you enter 5 pieces of info: conversion date, existing fund, new fund, shares of new fund and price per share of that new fund after conversion. Set up the post-conversion mutual fund first, then do this step. Click on it, and then from the drop-down menu, there is a long list that includes 'Mutual Fund Conversion'. If you go into your investment register, there is an 'Enter Transaction' button (towards the top of that screen, immediately under the register name).

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