I have a few investment accounts that I would now like to merge into one account

drd713

At first I purchased a mutual fund and created an investment account, later I purchased a second account from the same company and created a second investment account.  Later I realized it would make more sense to have an account where I could put the two acocunts as holdings into that higher level account.  Is that even possible without losing all of the transactions?  If it can be done I'd like to be educated on how to do it.

Jim_Harman

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I think what you are calling a Company is what Quicken calls an Account - one of the items in the Account bar normally at the left side of your screen. An Account can have one or more holdings, where a holding is a security (stocks, Bonds, mutual funds, ETFs etc.) So one account can have 123 shares of Fund X and 456 shares of IBM or whatever.

Normally these accounts are organized to match the statements that you receive, but if you are doing everything manually you may organize things differently.

It sounds like what you want to do is rename the account "Mutual Fund 1" to "Company D" and move the shares of Mutual Fund 2 into that account. Here are the steps to follow:

• Back up your file in case something goes wrong or the result is not to your liking.
• Go to the account that is now called Mutual fund 1, click the gear at the top right, and click on Edit account details. Next to Account name, type in whatever you want to call the account that will hold the mutual funds.
• Further down on the same dialog, make sure that "Single mutual fund account" is set to No. This will let you put more than one fund or other security in the account.
  
• Go to the account now called Mutual Fund 2, click on Enter Transactions, and pick Shares transferred between accounts. Select the fund you are moving and under Transfer method, select All. Next to Transfer Account select the account you just renamed. Click on Enter/Done

This will create one Removed transaction in the account that now holds Mutual fund 2 and one Added transaction in the newly renamed account for each tax lot of the shares you are moving. Be patient, this may take some time. When you are done, you should see both holdings when you click on Holdings in the newly renamed account. The historic transactions will still be in the account that you just emptied out but the shares, including all the cost basis information, will be in the newly renamed account. 

Ps56k2

Need a little clarification - as you've the word "account" in a couple of different ways.
Are these all at the same place -
as defined by your same SSN and some kind of online User ID / password ?

Some details would help... link multiple accts at a brokerage like Fidelity, Vanguard, etc.

Lastly - are you wanting to use the Quicken online One Step Update to connect and download any transactions from these accounts - OR - are you manually keeping track of these investments.

drd713

Let's see if I can clear things some hopefully.  I purchased a mutual fund from Investment firm X and created an entry under the Investing area on the left side of my screen for that fund (Fund 1).  I then later purchased an additional fund from the same Investment firm.  I created an entry for it as a separate entry in the investing area (fund 2).  I dawned on me months later that from an organizational view having one major entry where I could move both under it would be much better.  Thus the two mutual funds would be holdings under the major entry.  Right now I can't see a way to make that change.

Ps56k2

I'm guessing you are doing this all manually - ?

You should also mention which version of Quicken and version of Windows

You can use real info here, as it makes it easier to offer solutions....
it's harder not knowing the Investment Firm, the mutual fund symbols involved, and if you are doing things manually vs using the Quicken online download capability and One Step Update

Lastly - might take a look at this thread.....

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7148966/

and always perform a Quicken BACKUP before playing with any major changes to your Quicken data file 

drd713

It is all manual, that link is not what I am wanting to do.  
Let's see if I can sort of draw it. In my version which the latest via subscription and running Windows 10 with all of the latest patches, I have on the left side of the screen the following categories for lack of a better word.  Those are Banking, Investing, Debt and Separate.
Under the investing I have a lot of stuff but I'll just focus on enough to give the idea.
Investing
       Roth IRA - Company A
       401k - Company B
       Traditional IRA (rollover) - Company C
       Mutual Fund 1 - Company D
       Mutual Fund 2 - Company D
What I'd like to do is:
Investing
    Roth IRA - Company A
    401K - Company B
    Traditional IRA (rollover) - Company C
    Company D mutual funds
           Mutual Fund 1
           Mutual Fund 2

See the hierarchy, it is what I have in the rollover IRA which has about 200 different stocks and other assets in it. and I'd like to duplicate it.  I've had the mutual funds for up to 30+ years in one case and about 15 in the other with tons of deposits and distributions so moving transactions is not really a viable option.

Jim_Harman

[see edits]
I think what you are calling a Company is what Quicken calls an Account - one of the items in the Account bar normally at the left side of your screen. An Account can have one or more holdings, where a holding is a security (stocks, Bonds, mutual funds, ETFs etc.) So one account can have 123 shares of Fund X and 456 shares of IBM or whatever.

Normally these accounts are organized to match the statements that you receive, but if you are doing everything manually you may organize things differently.

It sounds like what you want to do is rename the account "Mutual Fund 1" to "Company D" and move the shares of Mutual Fund 2 into that account. Here are the steps to follow:

• Back up your file in case something goes wrong or the result is not to your liking.
• Go to the account that is now called Mutual fund 1, click the gear at the top right, and click on Edit account details. Next to Account name, type in whatever you want to call the account that will hold the mutual funds.
• Further down on the same dialog, make sure that "Single mutual fund account" is set to No. This will let you put more than one fund or other security in the account.
  
• Go to the account now called Mutual Fund 2, click on Enter Transactions, and pick Shares transferred between accounts. Select the fund you are moving and under Transfer method, select All. Next to Transfer Account select the account you just renamed. Click on Enter/Done

This will create one Removed transaction in the account that now holds Mutual fund 2 and one Added transaction in the newly renamed account for each tax lot of the shares you are moving. Be patient, this may take some time. When you are done, you should see both holdings when you click on Holdings in the newly renamed account. The historic transactions will still be in the account that you just emptied out but the shares, including all the cost basis information, will be in the newly renamed account. 

drd713

Thanks. I'll do exactly this.

Jim_Harman

I edited my post above to correct a few errors. Please refresh if necessary to see the changes.