Fund Name Mismatch - How Not to Lose Price History

kleinfelter
kleinfelter Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭
edited October 26 in Investing (Windows)

Quicken stopped downloading prices for my security named AT&T INTL STOCK INDEX. Quicken says the proper name is INTL STOCK INDEX.

I said, "Go ahead." So Quicken renamed it and discarded my 15 years of price history for it.

I restored from a backup.

First choice: How do I keep calling it AT&T INTL STOCK INDEX and get Quicken to download prices for what Fidelity calls INTL STOCK INDEX into what Quicken calls AT&T INTL STOCK INDEX?

Second choice: How do I rename AT&T INTL STOCK INDEX to INTL STOCK INDEX without losing 15 years of price history?

Running: Quicken Classic Deluxe v R64.29 Build 27.1.64.29 on Windows 11

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  • kleinfelter
    kleinfelter Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭

    Found it. For whatever reason, Quicken had been happily downloading prices for AT&T INTL STOCK INDEX, despite it not having a ticker symbol. Then, when Fidelity switched from Direct Connect to Express Web Connect+, download for this fund stopped.

    I poked around in the security list and discovered that Quicken had also been downloading prices for INTL STOCK INDEX, which had a ticker symbol. I copied the ticker into AT&T INTL STOCK INDEX, and now Q downloads prices for that security.

    There were a few other anomalies when some of my other accounts changed download methods. Dunno whether that's Q or the financial institution that didn't test with challenging edge cases. (I have lots of edge cases. I have at least 35 years of my family's financial transactions in Q.)

  • q_lurker
    q_lurker Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    FYI: Quicken downloads prices from their third party data supplier only if the security has a valid ticker (and the download quotes box is checked and either you own shares in an account or have the security in your watch list). If the security does not have a valid ticker, the prices can only come from your brokerage download.

    I can find no online indication of a fund named AT&T Intl Stock Index. Fidelity does have an International Index fund (Ticker = FSPSX). As far as Quicken is concerned, the name is not important. The important part with respect to downloading is that the security in Quicken is properly matched to the security being downloaded such that the Quicken security has the box checked that it is Matched with an online security, and thus has a CUSIP number associated with it. If that describes your AT&T INTL STOCK INDEX, you can likely now delete the other one.

  • Jim_Harman
    Jim_Harman Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is this a 401(k) account, perhaps for AT&T employees?

    401(k)s often have proprietary funds with names that are similar to those of publicly traded funds but different share prices.

    If that is the case, you do not want to associate the ticker for the publicly traded fund with your fund, because Quicken will download incorrect prices. Your AT&T fund should be matched with the 401(k) fund and should be getting the prices for that fund. You should go to the Security list and un-check the Download quotes box for the AT&T fund so Quicken will not try to download the prices for the publicly traded version.

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