The MMF is an investment, much as a share of stock is. When you moved
from Chase to JPM, you moved the investment from one account to another.
Money has a way to do that between investment accounts. It cannot
transfer an investment from a 'bank' account, because it doesn't see the
bank account as an investment.

The only way to accomplish this is by transferring the cash in the bank
account to a new investment account. If you choose at that point, you
can purchase the MMF. Personally, I wouldn't recommend that. Since MMF
funds are always (you hope) valued at $1, it's essentially the same as
cash. You can buy and sell the $1 MMF shares, if you want to, but it's
not worth the hassle.

All I do (and others here do the same) is hold cash in the cash side of
investment account, and record MMF dividends in the investment
transactions part. Money will gripe that you're recording dividends of
an investment you don't own, but ignore that. It's not a requirement.
When you get dividends, deposit them to the cash account. The balance in
the cash account reflects the MMF balance.

Alternatively, open an investment account without a separate cash
account. You can deposit/withdraw directly from the account itself, in
that case. That may better represent the MMF, but which you choose
doesn't matter much. If you have online connections, the account
structure created by the account manager pretty much dictates what you
have to do.
--
Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL

"Marilyn & Bob" <Privacy[at]nospam.please> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, Marilyn & Bob wrote:

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After the File-> Import, they would be in the cash transactions
register of the investment account as they were in the bank account.

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But closing the account differs from archiving in that the old
transactions are still there. A closed account is still accessible,
except that you can hide or not hide it from view in the account
list etc.

"Cal Learner-- MVP" <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote in message
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You can't tempt me because Chase does not have a download feature (direct or
from the website) for its Investment Accounts, even though it has direct
download for its bank and credit card accounts. Moreover, my main broker is
Merrill Lynch and while they do provide downloads from their website, it
doesn't work for me because of their poor coding. I have a Nuveen Municipal
Mutual Fund with them that they classify as a Stock in their ofx file which
complete screws up the whole download, so I can't use it. (I tried
converting the Fund to a stock in Money, but it couldn't handle the internal
Capital Gains transactions). I do download (direct) from Dreyfus (one mutual
fund).


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Yes, but how do I then get all the transactions from the cash transactions
register to the investment account register?

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Only reason is that I would like to keep the continuity as everything is the
same (including my account number) except that it is now held by their
brokerage section, not their banking division. Closing the pre brokerage
account and transferring the money to a new investment account seems to me
like *archiving* and we know why we want to avoid that <g> .

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I'm not happy with it, but it looks like it's the best I can do. From
hindsight, I should have set this up originally as a MMF, but it's obviously
too late now.
--
Peace,
BobJ

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

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Downloads from brokers tend to be pretty reliable. Can't tempt ya.

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I don't think there is a way to directly do that. You could
File-> Export the deposits and withdrawals from that bank account,
and File-> Import into the cash transactions register.

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How is that better than doing the Transfer of the full value to the
cash transactions register of the brokerage account? If you are
happy with the way you were doing it, you could just rename that
bank account to reflect that the money is now at the broker.

Thanks for your quick response. Comments interspersed.

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No this is not what happened. It is the exact same Money Market Fund, same
symbol, same everything. It's just that it was transferred from being
processed through my bank (Chase) to be processed the a brokerage (JP Morgan
Chase brokerage). It is no different than moving an investment from one
brokerage house to another. The problem is that I did not set up the MMF as
an investment, but as an account, so I can't move it in Money.


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As I said, I did and will do all the transactions manually, no downloading.
I think that if there is no way to convert my bank account to an investment
account I'll just keep the MMF as a separate savings account and keep the
brokerage account empty.
--
Peace,
BobJ

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

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The easiest way, and the way that will reflect what actually
happened, is to do a Transfer from the bank account to the cash
transactions of the broker account. Having done that, you can mark
the bank account as Closed.

In the brokerage account, I would follow what method is being used
in the downloads directly from the broker if you are downloading. If
you download Buys and Sells downloaded, go with that. If you don't,
let the balance in the cash transactions register reflect the sweep
MMF balances in addition to the unsettled funds.

If you are doing hand entry, in the cash transactions for that
account, do a Buy of the MMF. That will then remove the cash from
the cash transactions register.

I have a Money Market Fund that I have been tracking in Money since 1996.
It averages about 25 transactions per year (a monthly reinvest dividend +
transfers in and out). As, at the time, the fund was not in a Brokerage
Account, but handled directly through my Bank, I chose to set it up as a
separate Bank Account in Money. Recently, one of their representatives
convinced me to move this Fund to a brokerage account with them. I've set
up the Brokerage Account in Money and would like to put the MMF into it in
Money Plus Deluxe to reflect the current real life situation. Does anyone
have an idea how I can convert this account with 12 years of data from a
Bank Account to an Investment MMF so I can move it into the brokerage
account? Note that I have not (and will not) download data in this account.
I enter all transactions manually.
--
Peace,
BobJ