fixing an exchange

onepoorguy

I actually have a few problems with Fidelity and Quicken. But this one was my mistake. A while back Fidelity changed the version of Contrafund in my 401K from "K" to "Pool". Quicken helpfully asked if I wanted to treat all "pool" as "K", and I said "yes". I probably shouldn't have. Now I'm trying to clean up what I did and get all my accounts to display properly in Quicken. How do I go about undoing what I did so that new entries are "Pool"? Fido did the exchange about 10 months ago, "selling" all shares of FCNKX and "buying" Contrafund Pool (for which I still can't seem to find a symbol). The longer I wait the more entries I will have to correct once I undo that association. I've noticed that different versions of Contrafund have different NAV, and the # of shares after the exchange was different.

Sherlock

The K fund has a symbol and a CUSIP ID.  The Pool fund only has a CUSIP ID.  Within Quicken, this means the Pool fund relies on price quotes provided by Fidelity.
When you allowed Quicken to map the Pool fund to the K fund, Quicken replaced the K fund CUSIP ID with the Pool CUSIP ID.

To create separate securities in Quicken, I suggest you edit the K fund security and uncheck the Matched with online security on the Edit Security Detail window.  This clears the CUSIP ID matched to the security.  The next time Quicken handles the unmatched CUSIP ID from Fidelity, Quicken will prompt you again to identify a security to associate with this unmatched security from Fidelity.

You may wait until you've been prompted, or you may create a Pool fund security ahead of time.  Once you've created the new Pool fund security, you may change the security of the transactions that were assigned incorrectly. 

Before making any significant changes to your data file, always save a backup: press Ctrl + B

Rocket J Squirrel

You could revert to a backup of your data taken before the problem began, and restart from there.

That "Pool" thing is one strange animal. I don't think it has a symbol. Something I learned:

The Fidelity® Contrafund® Commingled Pool is a collective investment trust maintained under the Fidelity Group Trust for Employee Benefit Plans ... this investment option...is available only to eligible retirement plans and is not offered to the general public. ... This investment option is not a mutual fund.

Sherlock

The K fund has a symbol and a CUSIP ID.  The Pool fund only has a CUSIP ID.  Within Quicken, this means the Pool fund relies on price quotes provided by Fidelity.
When you allowed Quicken to map the Pool fund to the K fund, Quicken replaced the K fund CUSIP ID with the Pool CUSIP ID.

To create separate securities in Quicken, I suggest you edit the K fund security and uncheck the Matched with online security on the Edit Security Detail window.  This clears the CUSIP ID matched to the security.  The next time Quicken handles the unmatched CUSIP ID from Fidelity, Quicken will prompt you again to identify a security to associate with this unmatched security from Fidelity.

You may wait until you've been prompted, or you may create a Pool fund security ahead of time.  Once you've created the new Pool fund security, you may change the security of the transactions that were assigned incorrectly. 

Before making any significant changes to your data file, always save a backup: press Ctrl + B

onepoorguy

Thanks for the suggestion. I will give that a try and see what happens. Because it's a 401K Fidelity exports a strange Quicken format. Quicken won't allow it to import if it's a 401K. So I have to rely on Quicken doing it through online services, which doesn't always work. Cross my fingers here.

onepoorguy

OK, I did as you suggested. It downloaded some data from last year (not this year), and the contrafund items are all labeled "unidentified security", and then in the comment area is says "contribution fid contrafund k". I don't want to accept those (though the values are correct...this was from before the exchange last fall, and I already have those entries).

onepoorguy

Well, it seems content now. I appreciate the suggestion. After exiting the software and coming back later it apparently decided it knows what the "unidentified security" is, or at least it's not labeling it that way now.