Re: Tracking a TIAA mixed fund account

2017-07-31 Thread Mike Alexander
> On Jul 26, 2017, at 10:27 PM, AC wrote: > > I'm going to try > the structure in a new file and see how it behaves. If everything looks > ok then I'll recreate the structure in my main file and start entering > the data. For what it’s worth, I’ve been doing it that way

Re: Tracking a TIAA mixed fund account

2017-07-26 Thread AC
On 2017-07-26 12:17, Eric Siegerman wrote: > (Lost the attribution; sorry): >> Assets:TIAA (cash) >> Assets:TIAA:Lifecycle 1 (commodity) >> Assets:TIAA:Lifecycle 2 (commodity) >> Assets:TIAA:TIAA Mutual Fund (commodity) > > I've never heard of TIAA before, but from what's been said, I > infer

Re: Tracking a TIAA mixed fund account

2017-07-26 Thread Eric Siegerman
(Lost the attribution; sorry): > Assets:TIAA (cash) > Assets:TIAA:Lifecycle 1 (commodity) > Assets:TIAA:Lifecycle 2 (commodity) > Assets:TIAA:TIAA Mutual Fund (commodity) I've never heard of TIAA before, but from what's been said, I infer that an account there behaves enough like a normal

Re: Tracking a TIAA mixed fund account

2017-07-22 Thread AC
Seems like it might but what I want is to have the top level account (let's just call it TIAA) follow the entire value of the portfolio. Underneath that I want to see what the three individual funds are doing (the two lifecycles and the mutual). In the case of the lifecycle, you're correct that

Fwd: Re: Tracking a TIAA mixed fund account

2017-07-22 Thread Dale Alspach
I have two TIAA contracts which contain mutual funds and other similar investments. I have a top level asset account named Retirement and below that are asset accounts for each contract. Under each contract are accounts for each mutual fund, ETF, etc. As far as I am aware all TIAA funds now have

Re: Tracking a TIAA mixed fund account

2017-07-22 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
I may be misunderstanding,  but it seems like the following would work: Assets:TIAA (cash)Assets:TIAA:Lifecycle 1 (commodity)Assets:TIAA:Lifecycle 2 (commodity)Assets:TIAA:TIAA Mutual Fund (commodity) My experience of the so called "Lifecycle" funds is that they are just like any other mutual

Tracking a TIAA mixed fund account

2017-07-22 Thread AC
I want to start tracking my TIAA retirement portfolio for informational purposes (no reporting needs, filings, etc.) but I need some suggestions on structuring the account trees so that it doesn't affect my existing accounts. However, possibly later I'll edit things so that the paycheck