Just to summarize what people are telling you: GnuCash doesn't have any sort of functionality to automatically create accounts for an investment the first time it's seen, if that's what you're after. You will need to manually set up your accounts with beginning balances. It's not that bad, unless your RIA is way off the deep end on the "zillions of ETFs" gameplan.
Having done that, you can import investment transactions into GnuCash. GnuCash hasn't implemented direct web connection for investment transactions, so you'll need to save the transactions to a local file, then use File -> Import -> Import OFX/QFX inside GnuCash to import the saved file and map it to your account structure. Your advisor's website probably has a facility for downloading OFX/QFX data. If not, it looks like Ameriprise has a publicly-available OFX server; you should be able to download the data. -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.