Investing Reports

martianewell

When are the reports available on the Windows version going to be available for Mac? Investment Performance and Capital Gains reports are key. I'd love to find out they already exist, but without them, I can't make the switch from Windows to Mac (which I REALLY) want to do.

jacobs

We don't know when investment reports are going to be added, but there's reason for some optimism. The developers have spent the past 2+ years working on developing the new reports engine and interface. Now that they are mostly done creating the reports building blocks, the expectation is that they will add more reports that users have been waiting for, and some investment reports seem likely to be at the top of the list.

Meanwhile, there are some things you can do today. For instance, one part of the existing Tax Schedule report is Capital Gains; generate that report and you have your Capital Gains report within the report. Some investment performance infomation is available in the Investments portfolio view; set the first pull-down filter to "Performance", and you'll see options for displaying IRR and ROI over several time intervals for your securities. Although this isn't on the Report menu, you can print or export this portfolio view.

jacobs

1) No

If you receive dividends that are not reinvested, then they should show as cash in the brokerage account -- until you record the sweep of the cash into whatever cash account you have. If it's a money market fund at the same brokerages, you could record it as a Buy of shares of the money market fund; if it's a checking account at another institution, you could record it as a Transfer to the checking account. Quicken Mac doesn't have a way to do this automatically. 

2) No

But if it is a brokerage account in Quicken Mac, and it has a single security, is there anything you can't properly reflect in that account? 

3) Yes.

• Click on the investment account in the left sidebar
• Click the Transactions tab at the top of the main screen
• Click Settings in the bottom toolbar, on the far right
• In the account settings pane, about midway down, you'll see "Type". It probably says "Brokerage" now, from what you wrote. Use the pull-down menu to select the correct type of retirement account this should be: Traditional IRA, Roth IRA, etc.

jacobs

We don't know when investment reports are going to be added, but there's reason for some optimism. The developers have spent the past 2+ years working on developing the new reports engine and interface. Now that they are mostly done creating the reports building blocks, the expectation is that they will add more reports that users have been waiting for, and some investment reports seem likely to be at the top of the list.

Meanwhile, there are some things you can do today. For instance, one part of the existing Tax Schedule report is Capital Gains; generate that report and you have your Capital Gains report within the report. Some investment performance infomation is available in the Investments portfolio view; set the first pull-down filter to "Performance", and you'll see options for displaying IRR and ROI over several time intervals for your securities. Although this isn't on the Report menu, you can print or export this portfolio view.

martianewell

Now I'm looking for more in the investment area:
1)Is there such a thing in Mac as a linked brokerage settlement account? I can see how to reinvest dividends. If I receive dividends in a brokerage account that are not reinvested, it seems the cash just sits in the brokerage account.
2)is there a way to designate an account as a "single mutual fund account"?
3)Can I designate an account as investment vs retirement? On conversion my IRA brokerage account shows up under brokerage, not retirement, even though it was correct on the Windows side.

Thanks!

jacobs

1) No

If you receive dividends that are not reinvested, then they should show as cash in the brokerage account -- until you record the sweep of the cash into whatever cash account you have. If it's a money market fund at the same brokerages, you could record it as a Buy of shares of the money market fund; if it's a checking account at another institution, you could record it as a Transfer to the checking account. Quicken Mac doesn't have a way to do this automatically. 

2) No

But if it is a brokerage account in Quicken Mac, and it has a single security, is there anything you can't properly reflect in that account? 

3) Yes.

• Click on the investment account in the left sidebar
• Click the Transactions tab at the top of the main screen
• Click Settings in the bottom toolbar, on the far right
• In the account settings pane, about midway down, you'll see "Type". It probably says "Brokerage" now, from what you wrote. Use the pull-down menu to select the correct type of retirement account this should be: Traditional IRA, Roth IRA, etc.

martianewell

You are great! Your answers are right on. In all cases I can move ahead with existing functionality.

I couldn’t find an asset allocation report or graph. Also, it appears that you can only designate the asset class as one thing or as mixed multiple. I seem to think in Windows the percentage allocations are part of the security price download. I can live without this, but it was handy to see it in Quicken.