Asset Allocation Reports for Quicken Mac (as on Quicken 2007/Windows) (14 merged votes)

@pjw7  Until the developers add features to report on your asset allocation, you can create a report for yourself. First, click on the investing accounts or account groups in the left sidebar which you want to include in your allocation: Brokerage (for non-retirement accounts), Retirement, or Investing (for all accounts). Set your filters for Portfolio Value, Group by Security. If you don't currently have Asset Class as one of your columns, click the columns icon and double-click Asset Allocation to add it to your displayed columns. Now click on the Asset Class heading to sort the securities by asset class. Finally, you can export your portfolio view to a CSV file and open it in Numbers or Excel; there you can easily calculate the percentage of each asset class.

This is just a workaround, of course. Obviously, most people interested in tracking their investments would like to be able to generate such a report at a click of a button in Quicken… and hopefully we'll see such a feature in the not-too-distant future.

@James Mayhew

Quicken Mac now has some, but not all, of what you're asking for. As of the latest 6.5 release, you can now view and edit the asset mixture for any security which is not 100% in a single asset class. For instance, Apple stock falls completely into the Large Cap Stock bucket; the Vanguard Balanced Index Fund is an asset mix of 43% Large Cap Stock, 15% Small Cap Stock, 1% International Stock, 37% Domestic Bond, and 3% Cash. Quicken Mac lets you edit these percentages if you believe they are wrong or misleading, and especially if you have a security for which Quicken can't download the asset breakdown.

Currently, these asset mixture values are applied to the security Dashboard, which is excellent.

Currently, these asset mixture values are not applied to the Asset Class view of the Portfolio screen, which is bad. (We've been assured this is forthcoming, hopefully in the near future.) [EDIT: This functionality has been added as of the version 6.8 release in June 2022. Hallelujah!]

Currently, there is no way to add your own asset classes. This could be good or bad, depending on your point of view. The good part is that it insures Quicken can use third-party data for the asset mixes; once they allow users to create their own asset classes, Quicken cannot provide information for user-created classes. On the flip side, the 7 basic asset classes defined in Quicken can be very limiting. For instance, there are Large Cap and Small Cap stock, but no Mid Cap Stocks. (I assume that's because these classes are what is defined by Morningstar and/or others.) If you have investments in cryptocurrency, or own gold, there's no way to create an asset class for that. 

Then there are other dimensions that some investors might want which Quicken doesn't provide. (I think this is true of Quicken Windows as well, but I'm not sure.) Some investors want to break down stocks into the typical 9-quadrant grid: large, medium and small cap versus value, blend and growth. Or for bonds funds: short, intermediate or long term versus high, mid or low quality. and some investor might want another dimension of sectors analysis: energy, financial services, healthcare, industrials, real estate, technology, utilities, etc. Quicken does not have the ability to apply these additional dimensions beyond a core asset class breakdown. 

For me, personally, the new asset classifications provide the breakdowns I'm looking for in order to manage my portfolio. They're currently in the Dashboard which is good, but when they bring this to the Portfolio screen, I'll be a pretty satisfied. It's unclear whether allowing users to create their own asset classes is on their roadmap or not.