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Posted by Loren on January 17, 2005 at 13:35:36:

In Reply to: Re: Transaction retrieve into existing investment? posted by Mark on January 16, 2005 at 12:10:13:

: : : Fund Manager matches up investments based on symbol. It only looks in the
: : : portfolio that you're retrieving for the investment with the matching symbol.
: : : Maybe Hewitt has a different symbol than what you've got recorded, or maybe
: : : it isn't providing a symbol at all... You can go ahead and do a retrieve,
: : : and let it create a new investment. If you don't really want to save this
: : : new investment, just quit Fund Manager without saving your investments. Before
: : : exiting Fund Manager make sure "Options / Save Investments On Exit" is turned
: : : off. This way, you can look at the investment properties of this newly
: : : created investment, and see what symbol Hewitt thinks should be assigned.

: : If I allow FM to create new investments, I get three new files, and all three have blanks in the "Symbol" attribute. If I either do a subsequent retrieve into the portfolio with the three new investments, or change my existing investments to blank out the "Symbol", transactions for all three investments go into ONE investment file (apparently whichever one FM finds "first" with the matching/blank symbol).

: : These mutual funds are not publicly traded, so they don't have normal/real trading symbols. Seems like I need FM to use more than just symbol to "disambiguate" the funds. The investment files created by FM did have different "Name" attributes, so it would seem that FM could/should match up names when symbols are ambiguous.

: : P.S. I have no idea how Quicken or MS-Money handle this, but the Hewitt site provides direction for using both (which I consulted to figure out how to enter my userid into FM), so my guess is they work OK without requiring a change (for nonblank symbols) at Hewitt.

:
: Hi George,

: Okay, thanks for the information. I agree that would be a good idea. I'll
: see about getting this into 7.1. If the symbol is empty, then it will resort
: to comparing against the name field.

: Thanks,
: Mark
: --
: Mark Beiley
: Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00/XP/2003
:

I just had the same problem with Fidelity NetBenefits. FM created new investments for all my funds and properties revealed no symbol in the symbol field, just Fidelity fund name field. Does this mean that if I change my investments to match Fidelity's names, FM will match the names on transaction retrieve when it does not find a symbol?

Thanks
Loren


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