Investment performance showing incomplete data
I just realized that relevant transactions and/or securities are being omitted when I run an Investment Performance report! For example if I run the report for my non-registered investment account with all Securities, Security Types and Investing Goals selected, I see no entries for one specific security. If I then clear the Securities list and select just that one security, it now appears in the report. However even then, some dividend reinvestment transactions are not included in the calculation. This makes the report very misleading and untrustworty, and could lead to bad investment decisions.
For the hefty subscription amount I now pay for this software, I expect it to do this basic calculation flawlessly.
Quicken Canada 2019 Home & Business, R15.24 on Windows 10 desktop
For the hefty subscription amount I now pay for this software, I expect it to do this basic calculation flawlessly.
Quicken Canada 2019 Home & Business, R15.24 on Windows 10 desktop
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This has been discussed many times in here, and not seeing the dividend reinvestment transactions, while confusing, is perfectly fine for the calculation itself. The calculation depends on cash flows for each day in the period specified and a dividend reinvestment has both an outflow (dividend) and inflow (buy) on the same day, effectively making the net cash for for that day $0.
If the security in question has only ReinDiv transactions the you won't see anything in the Investment Performance report that makes it clear that the security is being included. To make that conclusion you have to look at the composition of the beginning and ending balances. Maybe that's what you're seeing here?
My original question still stands though - how can a security not appear in the list when all securities are selected, but then show up when it is selected on its own? I just did another check, and the missing security does appear when the report is sorted by security but not when it's sorted by account. In fact the dividing line seems to be between Account and Security in the sort criteria list - selecting any criteria at the top of the list will suppress certain securities but the criteria from Security on down allow them to appear. To quantify the problem, 3 of 9 securities held in the account are disappearing and for the ones that aren't suppressed, a total of 7 valid transactions don't show up, when the sort criterion is changed to Account. Quite mysterious!
I will also point to a character of the IPR - that is, an applicable transaction is listed as a return if it is a removal from that sub-total. So when subtotaled by security, a Dividend transaction will be listed in the IPR under that security. For the same transaction when the IPR is subtotaled by Account, the dividend will not be listed.
That is not saying that the transaction is missed when subtotaled by Account. For that subtotal, the dividend is a change in form - from value as part of the security to value as cash. Since the cash is still part of the account, the dividend payment does not represent 'return' at the account level. The positive nature of the dividend is still felt since the overall ending value of the account is increased by the dividend (even though the security value might have dropped similarly).
Perhaps it is then obvious that DivX and similar that remove the paid dividend from the account would be listed as transactions when subtotaled by account.
That characteristic would not seem to apply within the time-criterion setting where the 'investment' / 'return' consideration would still be at the upper level.
I am not seeing you basis for missing transactions and securities. I think there is some other discrepancy in your data.