The proposed structure is set up precisely as you want, down to the naming, and it will show total portfolio. At least it does for me.
Personally, I don’t know the precise share holdings for any of the mutual funds I own, so the Lifecycle funds are, for me, exactly the same. David P.S. Dale’s comment about the income accounts is useful, and what I do as well. > On Jul 23, 2017, at 10:36 AM, AC <gnuc...@acarver.net> wrote: > > 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 it sort of looks like a mutual fund except that I > don't know what's actually inside it unlike a traditional MF where I > know the individual distribution of shares that make up the overall MF. > > In this case then there would be three under TIAA, TIAA LC 1, TIAA LC2 > and TIAA MF and I would want to see the individual values (in dollars) > of those three including the contributions to each, whatever dividends > they earn and then, in the case of TIAA MF, I'd want to have the > underlying distributions recorded just like a normal MF account. > > I suppose the sticky point is having the value tracking of the whole > portfolio in addition to the individual fund values and then the MF > distributions. Trying to get the cascade to work right. > > On 2017-07-22 21:17, David T. wrote: >> 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 funds. >> >> When I handle payroll deductions, the dollars go into the cash account, and >> a >> separate purchase transaction moves the cash into fund shares. It's a little >> cumbersome, but it allows me to ensure that the right numbers get in. >> >> HTH, >> David >> >> On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 8:38, AC >> <gnuc...@acarver.net> wrote: >> 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 >> contributions are directed accordingly so I'd want the new accounts to >> allow that eventually (i.e. for now I'll add contributions manually >> using a virtual source and eventually go back through and move those to >> withdraw from my paycheck, the amount withheld is already accounted) >> >> The trick with my TIAA portfolio is that it has three different products >> within it. Two of them are TIAA funds (one of the lifecycle multi-asset >> funds) that does not have a breakdown of the individual holdings (like a >> mutual fund). These two only document the employer contributions, my >> contributions, shares and interest/dividends. The third product is a >> TIAA mutual fund for which the individual holdings are broken out with >> all the same data as a typical mutual fund (shares, prices, etc.) >> >> What I expect to have is some type of top-level account that tracks the >> overall value of the portfolio in dollars and then either within that or >> somewhere nearby an account or account tree for each of the three >> products. At first I had considered just making the two TIAA funds into >> an account that was basically a mutual fund with a single holding but I >> wasn't quite sure how to combine that with the one real mutual fund when >> each of the three funds receives different amounts of contributions and >> individual dividends. Perhaps it would be a top-level account then >> three sub-accounts that are all mutual funds with two of them having one >> holding and the last is the broken out holding? >> >> I don't plan on using this for any official reporting (I get those >> documents already), and I don't plan on downloading statements, quotes, >> or anything else. I'll just manually track things as my statements come >> in and I enter the data from those, perhaps updating symbol share prices >> manually if I'm interested at a particular time. I don't currently use >> much reporting as is with my existing accounts except an occasional cash >> flow report so as long as that isn't affected I'm fine. I do currently >> have a mutual fund being tracked so I want to be careful not to cause >> trouble for that either. >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org> >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.