Unlink mutual fund

Question

Ever since the Voya Fiasco where Quicken refuses to link with Voya an I have to manually enter transactions I seem to have stumbled upon an issue.

My 401(k) has a fund called "Fidelity Total International Equity Fund" with an approx value of $11 per share

Quicken seems to think this is the publicly traded mutual fund with ticker symbol FTIEX with an approx value of $16 per share

I can manually enter the correct value all day long, but quicken will override this.

How can I unlink this particular mutual fund in my portfolio so that Quicken no longer automatically updates the value?

Obviously disabling ALL fund/stock updates is not a valid answer.

Sceptic · Answer

@BOB139 If Quicken has associated that fund with FTIEX, you should be able to stop Quicken from updating its price by removing the ticker symbol and online quote linkage for that security:

* Go to Tools > Security List.
* Locate Fidelity Total International Equity Fund and click Edit Details.
* Remove the ticker symbol (FTIEX) from the security.  I think the best thing to do is change it to the fund ID that your 401(k) is using.  If they are using FTIEX, then use any "fake" fund ID you wish.
* Uncheck "Matched with online security".
* Click OK to save the changes.
* Uncheck "Download Quotes" in the Security List
* Review price history and manually correct prices if needed.

Once the security is no longer associated with a ticker symbol, Quicken should stop overwriting the manually entered price while continuing to update prices for your other securities.

If Quicken will not allow the ticker symbol or online association to be removed, the alternative is to create a new manually tracked security for the unitized fund and move the holdings to that security.

q_lurker · Answer

See the security list -

What ticker is assigned to your security in Quicken?  Obviously (?) it should not be FTIEX.  If it is FTIEX, remove that ticker.

401k accounts frequently use a 'trust' structure to manage 'funds'. That may be the source of the confusion.

Another step you can take is to Edit that security, and uncheck the box about that security being "Matched with online security".  but since apparently you are not downloading for that account, I would not expect that to change anything.