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Posted by Bob Organ on January 27, 2005 at 20:44:41:

In Reply to: Re: Portfolios posted by Mark on January 24, 2005 at 13:11:26:

: : Hi Mark,

: : Is there a way to have different "views" within a master-level portfolio. To be more specific, I have set up sub portofolios by broker. But, under the old FM, I used to keep portfolios for each broker, and then aggregated these to "higher level" portfolios (for example, retirement, current, me, my wife etc.) With the new FM I have been able to have all of my lowest level portfolios active at once (btw, that's great) and I have set them up by broker.

: : But now that I have them all open, can I rearrange/group them (still within the master portfolio) into mid-level portfolios. Note that under one Broker, it maybe possible to have retirement assets as well as current assets (see first paragraph).

: : If not, I suppose I can maintain more than one "master portfolio" with the sub-portfolios grouped as a I would like to see them.

: : Thanks in advance.

: : Bob Organ

:
: Hi Bob,

: Yes, you can do this. Sub-portfolios can be as deep as you want. You
: can have an unlimited number of sub-portfolios, with an unlimited hierarchy.
: See this new tutorial for a description/example of this:

: http://www.fundmanagersoftware.com/tutor_ports.html

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


Hi Mark,

Hate to continue down this path but... here is what I had in mind.

Master

Broker 1

Husband (Non-IRA)

Wife (Non-IRA)

Wife Rollover IRA

Child 1 Education Acct

Child 2 Education Acct

Fund Company 1

Husband IRA

Wife IRA

Joint Account

Employer 1

Husband 401K

Employer 2

Wife 401K

What I meant by "different views" was a way to see a report summed by 1) broker or fund company and 2) by Current, Retirement(the 401K and the IRAs), or Education (Child 1, 2 ).

Using your posted tutorial, I copied the IRAs to another sub-portfolio under Master called Retirement (where I also put Husband 401K and Wife 401k). But, then on the reports it counted these accounts twice (no big suprise, I guess).

I have used the investment goal as an approach, but on the reports it lists every investment and its goal rather than giving me a clean summary report. (I'd like to just see the reports by Current,Retirement, Education (maybe with sub-headings to those (for example, Retirement (with husband and wife as sub-totals).

I'd like to keep all "views" in one master portfolio, but do I have to "settle" for putting them in a master, and then having a separate portfolio for Current, one for Retirement and then one for Kids Education?

Thanks. Sorry for all the detail. Software is great - hope there's an easy solution to this!

Bob Organ



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