Exchange Equity with Same Symbol RSP 4/9/18

Has the CUSIP number changed? That is what Quicken generally users to match transaction downloads to securities.

I'm missing the issue. Why is ANY change necessary?  Simply stick in a "Reminder Transaction" to note the date if you need that info.

TheDude said:

Gentlemen (I assume), Thank you for your responses.  Ironically I have read a number of each of your previous replys to other issues and they have been beneficail to me, espeically a few from q.lurker.  

As I review the responses, yes CUSPIP has changed: 
NEW:  Fund Ticker RSP  CUSIP # 739371813  ISIN US7393718132
OLD:  Fund Ticker RSP  CUSIP # 78355W106 ISIN ?? Can't locate

I am left wondering if implementing either a 1) Corp Name Change or 2)  Stock for Stock Acquisition, might potentially have an impact on historical prices, and in particular if I ever have to rebuild price history.  One of the most significant uses of my inestment data in quicken is to look at portfolio value at various intervals to assess what strategies have had the most beneficial impact.

WIth respect to NotACPA, "missing the issue.  Why is any change necessary?"  Quicken is prompting if the new secuirty name (PowerShares S&P 500 Equal Weigh Portfol) is a new security or it the old (RYDEX ETF TRUST GUG S&P500 EQ WT). I am not sure of implications, some noted above, of future impact on how to handle the transaction.  Each brokerage has reported it as a slightly different transaction:  
TDAmeritrade:  MANDATORY - EXCHANGE (78355W106)
Fidelity:  MERGER MER FROM 78355W106#REOR M0051119510001 POWERSHARES EXCHANGE TRADED FD TST S&P (RSP) 

Both approaches will leave the historical prices in tact, although if you take my suggestion (Corp Acquisition approach) to reticker the old security the prices will be under two different labels.  Any time you are looking at "performance" across that transition date, you would need to be keeping both securities involved in the report.  Separating the two can lead to misunderstandings and misinterpretations.  Thus my bias toward the name change. 

It is likely the CUSIP change that is leading to the prompt you are seeing.  I see no real issues with telling Quicken that the new is the old.  Since I prefer to know what is taking place, I would do the name change myself, then be looking at answering that question stating they are the same.  That type of question was what I was getting at with my last paragraph previous.  Answering that question "the same" will apply the new CUSIP number to the existing Quicken security, thereby replacing the original CUSIP.  No problems with that; the old CUSIP no longer exists. 

Also in the vein of keeping control, I would work through this one account at a time.  Get the manually entries clear (Name Change?), then the first account.  Make sure you have the info correct for that first account, then look at the second.  I suspect when you have the name changed, and the first account correct, the second will automatically record properly. 

Using the name change approach, neither account should have an "exchange" transaction recorded, unless you choose to enter reminder transactions to that effect. (Not a bad idea, though certainly not mandatory either.)