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In Reply to: Re: Portfolios posted by Bob Organ on January 27, 2005 at 20:44:41:

: : : 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 use "Investment Goal" or "Asset Type" categories. Set up the
ones you want under "Options / Category Labels..." and then use "Investment
Properties..." on each investment to assign it into the appropriate
categories. When creating a report choose "List By" to be set to the category
you want, like "Investment Goal".

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

: :
: : 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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