Re: Subportfolios

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In Reply to: Re: Subportfolios posted by David J Goldberg on October 22, 2005 at 16:58:03:

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: : Hi David,

: : What are you referring to as the "Master screen"?

: Thank you Mark for your response, actually that is the screen I get when I open My Portfolio,MM4, has the Master Portfolio with the red mark on the left and all the Investments on the right with current holdings,prices,total shares etc.
: That includes currently all of my holdings without distiction between my different accounts.
: I want to now assign those Investments into different Subportfolios, each one with different names.
: As I proceeded, Created a new Portfolio by Save As "My Portfolio_1" and then created all the subportfolios I wanted.
: Lets take SBUX 100 shares and copy/paste or move into Subportfolio #1.
: if I moved it by click/dragg, will not longer show on what I call the Master Portfolio screen on the right as all shares are now on the Sub#1.
: If I used the copy/paste option then will have increased the total shares by 100 on My Portfolio_1.
: Again tried the tutorial but I am missing something.
: Sorry
: David

Hi David,

The window that shows your portfolios on the left, and the one with a red check mark is called the "Portfolio Editor".

How exactly are you creating new subportfolios? You can just find the existing portfolio on the left of the Portfolio Editor window that you want to create a sub-portfolio under, and right mouse click on it, and choose "New Sub-Portfolio..." from the popup menu. I don't think you want to use the "File / Save Portfolio As..." command, as that creates a whole new portfolio file (*.mm4).

If you "move" an investment into a lower level sub-portfolio, it won't be displayed in the Portfolio Editor at the higher level anymore, but a higher level portfolio also includes all the investments in all its sub-portfolios. So, when you calculate the portfolio value of your highest level portfolio it will include all your open investments, from all sub-portfolios.

You might find it insightful to create a "Portfolio Value" report for your highest level portfolio (Master Portfolio?) and turn on the option to sub-total sub-portfolios. This will show you how investments are included in each sub-portfolio, and how the value rolls up into the higher level portfolios.

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

Replies:

• Re: Subportfolios David J Goldberg 22:17:18 10/22/05 (2)
  • Re: Subportfolios David J Goldberg 10:52:14 10/23/05 (1)
    • Re: Subportfolios Mark 12:21:26 10/23/05 (0)