In microsoft.public.money, Marilyn & Bob wrote:

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Vanguard use to be that way -- consider each fund to be in a
separate account. If that is the case, I would go with that to
facilitate download. If I were entering the transaction by hand, I
would opt for more than one fund in an account. That's how Vanguard
does it now.

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 21:08:11 -0400, "Marilyn & Bob" <Privacy[at]nospam.pleasewrote:

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You may be correct that the OP's problem is hopeless.

However, there are reasons other than what you have experienced for the OP's
problem, as has been reported on the NG frequently in the past. It has
frequently been the case that those having the problem have not set up their
accounts correctly. It has rarely been the case that it is a problem with
their institution.


--ron

Sorry Rod, it doesn't work that way. I manually set up a single account for
my two Ariel funds and then I tried to set up on line services and do the
download. What happens is that two separate accounts download, each with
one fund in it. I can merge one of the downloaded accounts with the
manually set up account, but Money will not let me merge the second account.
I'm sure the original poster has the same problem. If the financial
institution does not have it set up right, there is nothing you can do about
it.
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Peace,
BobJ

"Ron Rosenfeld" <ronrosenfeld[at]nospam.org> wrote in message
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On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 18:50:01 -0700, KenTiffJelt
<KenTiffJelt[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

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Ordinarily in that situation, I would have set up a single account under the
name of the brokerage or "investing institution" to use your terminology.

Then each fund would be added as an investment in that institution.

I don't have 2006, but the sequence would something like

Add a new account
Enter the data with regard to your "investing institution"

After that, depending on the institution, you might be able to just set up
online services for the institution, and it might download all of the funds as
different investments. (That's what happens with Fidelity if I set this up in
a new money file -- which I've done for testing now and then).

If not, each fund should be added as a new investment in this new account.


--ron

There is nothing you can do about this. The problem is at the fund's end.
I have that problem with one of the funds (Ariel Funds) that I use. They
simply have set up their downloading system incorrectly. And since they use
a consultant to set up their downloading system, there is no one in their
office who I can talk to about this. They are being ripped off paying for a
useless service and us users get no benefit. I have to manually enter all
of my transactions. If you are dealing with a larger fund company who has
its own technical service, maybe you can get them to fix the problem.
Otherwise, just forget about it and enter all your info manually.
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Peace,
BobJ

"Cal Learner-- MVP" <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, KenTiffJelt wrote:

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If you were to name the institution, somebody may have experience
with them. It would also be a good idea to identify the version of
Money.

I have several differents funds held at the same investing institution. When
I try to set-up online services for one of these accounts Money only allows
me to set-up one fund at a time. I need to set-up all of the funds at the
same time but I can't figure it out. If I set up one fund from an account
online updates occur, but only for that fund not the entire portfolio. Any
suggestions?