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reinvest long-term capital gains option gone

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Hello,
In the Portfolio Manager page, when I click New under a particular investment in order to add a transaction, I now have fewer choices under Activity that I always have before. In particular, I would like to use Reinvest Long-Term Capital Gains or Reinvest Short-Term Capital Gains, but they no longer appear. Have I inadvertently clicked on something that removed those options?
I should add that I am running Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe Sunset ver. 17.0.120.3817.
Thank you.
Paula
- Edited by farfallina2407 Sunday, January 5, 2014 6:10 PM
Sunday, January 5, 2014 6:05 PM
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The Activity choices are determined by the type of investment. Those options show up for me for mutual funds for instance but not for my bonds.
- Proposed as answer by ameridan Sunday, January 5, 2014 7:26 PM
Sunday, January 5, 2014 7:25 PM -
A bond fund should be set up as a mutual fund and not as a bond. Bond should only be used for an actual single bond issue.Sunday, January 5, 2014 8:22 PMModerator
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I just used bonds as an example. I actually use bonds to track my brokered CDs, which of course wouldn't have capital gains anyways.
- Edited by ameridan Sunday, January 5, 2014 8:52 PM
Sunday, January 5, 2014 8:52 PM -
All,
I think I've figured this out, with help from your clues. The investments I was looking to add capital gains reinvestments to are exchange-traded funds, so I initially classified them as stocks. That would explain why reinvesting capital gains is not given as an option.
Now for the next question; should I have set up ETFs as stocks? And, if not, is there any way to reclassify them as mutual funds?
Paula
Monday, January 6, 2014 12:40 AM -
I would figure to set up an ETF as a stock, but if you are being issued a capital gains distribution, that would be a reason to make it to be a Mutual Fund. In Money Plus you can go to the Investment Details for a stock and change the Investment Type to Mutual Fund as long as you have not entered a transaction or done something that is not allowed for a Mutual Fund.
To get to Details, right-click any reference to the security, and choose Go To Investment and the click Details on the left.
Monday, January 6, 2014 6:19 AMModerator