Investement performance report- Quicken Classic Business & personal- Canadian

You can control whether the management fee is considered a Return or not.

You should record the fee as a Misc Expense in the account, using a Category that is just for fees.

To see and change the setting, go to Tools > Category List and right click on the Category you are using for the fees. Select Edit to see the Edit Category dialog.

The setting is somewhat confusing. If you check the "Affects Investment Performance" box, the fees are not considered part of the account's Return and thus will be as drag on the account's performance.

@lcharron1951 Something is not clear here. Greatly simplifying —

• Suppose you started the period with an investment portfolio worth $1,000.
• At the end of the period, the investments were worth $1,100.
• During the period, you paid a $10 management fee using assets from that portfolio of investments

The original Quicken calculation would say your initial investment grew from $1,000 to $1,110. (nominally 11%). The amount paid as fees is considered part of the return. That is the return before fees were deducted.

The revised calculation after resetting the checkbox for the category becomes $1,000 growing to $1,100 (10%). The amount paid assigned to the particular category is not included in the returns. That is a return after fees.

The only picture I can visualize where the fees would be an "added investment" would be if you paid those into the account from an outside resource in which case you'd then have $1,010 growing to $1,100. Is that what you are doing? If so, that extra deposit should be showing up in the Investments column of the Investment Performance report (if details are included).