Merge Investment Accounts

FEC

I have a Vanguard Investment Account
In that account I have stocks, mutual funds and two money market funds; 1) Vanguard Federal Money Market Fund (VMFXX), and 2) Vanguard Federal Money Market Fund Investor Shares (VMFXX). Only one of the MMFs show on my Vanguard statements.
How do I merge these two accounts?

q_lurker

FEC said:

...The rephrase my question, How do I merge these two securities?

What I would do ...
Choose the security in Quicken with the fewest number of transactions.  You will change from that one to the other one.
Sort the register by Security (click the header)
Edit each applicable transaction from the less-desired name to the more desired name.  Make use of clipboard and 'paste' option to paste over the one name with the other.
When you have no longer have transactions with that less-desired name, you can delete that security from the security list.  

Jim_Harman

In addition to @q_lurker's advice, if you are downloading transactions from Vanguard, you will wnat to make sure that new transactions are matched to the correct security in Quicken.

View the account and click on Holdings. Click on the name of the version of the fund you are keeping, then click Edit security details. If "Matched with online security" is checked, all should be OK.

If it is not checked, then the next time you download you should see a dialog that asks if you want to match Federal Money Market to an existing security or create a new one. Carefully select the security you are keeping to match to it and you should be all set.

Tom Young

I wouldn't think that you'd have both the "regular" and "Investor" shares of the same MMF in the same account.  Typically when you amass enough money in a particular fund to reach investor status ALL your shares convert.  You've indicated that both classes have the same ticker symbol and usually different classes of the same fund have slightly different tickers.  Why do you think you have two different securities in the account if the statement only shows one MMF?

(Your question is "How do I merge these two accounts" but you mention only one account so are you really referring to the two securities?)

FEC

Both show in my Vanguard account with the same symbol (VMFXX). Two securities as described in original post with the same symbol. Both have transactions with balances. The rephrase my question, How do I merge these two securities?

q_lurker

FEC said:

...The rephrase my question, How do I merge these two securities?

What I would do ...
Choose the security in Quicken with the fewest number of transactions.  You will change from that one to the other one.
Sort the register by Security (click the header)
Edit each applicable transaction from the less-desired name to the more desired name.  Make use of clipboard and 'paste' option to paste over the one name with the other.
When you have no longer have transactions with that less-desired name, you can delete that security from the security list.  

Jim_Harman

In addition to @q_lurker's advice, if you are downloading transactions from Vanguard, you will wnat to make sure that new transactions are matched to the correct security in Quicken.

View the account and click on Holdings. Click on the name of the version of the fund you are keeping, then click Edit security details. If "Matched with online security" is checked, all should be OK.

If it is not checked, then the next time you download you should see a dialog that asks if you want to match Federal Money Market to an existing security or create a new one. Carefully select the security you are keeping to match to it and you should be all set.