Another Quiken question

[LovesLife]

I am using Quicken Premier 2004. Last week I bought some bonds in my brokerage accont at VG. The bonds were from AmCntry, not VG. When I updated my acconts on Quicken, it recorded a cash transaction but didn't show a bond purchase. Now I have a cash balance in my Quicken account.

Do I need to manually enter in the purchase? Will I have to update it manually as well?

Thanks for your help. I have used Quicken for a few years for my daily expense tracking but am new to using it for tracking investments.

LL

 

[Newell]

LL,
I'm not sure I understand. When you say that the bonds were from AmCntry do you mean individual bonds or a bond mutual fund? When you updated your Quicken accounts, did you do a download from VG or did you enter the purchase manually?

 

[LovesLife]

The funds from AmCentury is a bond fund. I did a download from VG and it did not show up on in Quicken. It did, however, show as a purchase on my account at VG when I look at my account online.

The only transaction that shows up on my quicken is that now I have a cash balance for the amount of the bonds that I purchased. The only thing that I can think that is different is that the bonds were purchased through my brokerage account since they were not VG funds. All other funds that I have bought have been VG funds and they show up just fine.

Thanks for your help.

LL

 

[Newell]

If I'm not mistaken, Vanguard treats Vanguard mutual fund accounts completely separate from their brokerage accounts. I haven't done this before but it may be that you need to do a download from your brokerage account - again, I'm just guessing!

 

[LovesLife]

Thank you. I will give it a try and see what happens.

LL

 

[LovesLife]

It still didn't work for me. I went to VG, logged on, went to the tab to download transactions (upper right corner), checked the account I wanted to download transactions to, and saved the file to quicken as a .qfx file. I went to quicken and tried to import the file and it looks like it was saved as a wordpad or something.


Any ideas?

LL

 

[LovesLife]

I am such a dummy : : :

I forgot to first create the account in Quicken.

Thanks for your help, oldbykur. Everything is working fine now.

LL