Why is the data pulled down from an online update, ALL WRONG?

I'm using Money 2004 Deluxe. I just figured out how to get online updates
for my 403(b) from Fidelity. I've pull everything down into MS Money.
Looked cool, at least for a while.

Then I noticed that out of the 6 mutual funds I'm investing in, only 2 had
symbols associated with them. So I tried to assign the symbols to the other
4. Only thing is when I did, I got error messages saying that the symbol
was already in use.

So then I went into help and found that if I went to the Investing menu
option and choose "Work With Investments" and then choose "Choose a specific
investment", I got a list of all of the mutual funds that I have, but they
almost seem duplicated. For example, a partial list of the funds are:

Fidelity Blue Chip
Fidelity Blue Chip Growth (FBGRX)

and most of the rest of the mutual funds that I downloaded from Fidelity,
and apparently were already in MS Money. The ones downloaded from Fidelity
didn't have the symbol, and the ones already in MS Money did (e.g.: the
"FBGRX" above).

Now, what do I do?! How do I combine them into the correct fund WITH the
symbol?

And what about other downloads of updates from Fidelity? Are they all going
to have the wrong fund names with no symbols, requiring me to have to merge
them again? If so, this whole online stuff is completely worthless, if I
have to spend more time manually changing things.

Rod

Dick
Fri Dec 31 16:57:10 CST 2004

You won't get an argument here.

"Rod" <Rod@NO.SPAM> wrote in message
news:OAj17Z47EHA.1392@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> this whole online stuff is completely worthless, if I have to spend more
> time manually changing things.

via_newsgroup
Fri Dec 31 17:20:00 CST 2004

In microsoft.public.money, Rod wrote:

>I'm using Money 2004 Deluxe. I just figured out how to get online updates
>for my 403(b) from Fidelity. I've pull everything down into MS Money.
>Looked cool, at least for a while.
>
>Then I noticed that out of the 6 mutual funds I'm investing in, only 2 had
>symbols associated with them. So I tried to assign the symbols to the other
>4. Only thing is when I did, I got error messages saying that the symbol
>was already in use.
>
>So then I went into help and found that if I went to the Investing menu
>option and choose "Work With Investments" and then choose "Choose a specific
>investment", I got a list of all of the mutual funds that I have, but they
>almost seem duplicated. For example, a partial list of the funds are:
>
>Fidelity Blue Chip
>Fidelity Blue Chip Growth (FBGRX)
>
>and most of the rest of the mutual funds that I downloaded from Fidelity,
>and apparently were already in MS Money. The ones downloaded from Fidelity
>didn't have the symbol, and the ones already in MS Money did (e.g.: the
>"FBGRX" above).
>
>Now, what do I do?! How do I combine them into the correct fund WITH the
>symbol?
>
>And what about other downloads of updates from Fidelity? Are they all going
>to have the wrong fund names with no symbols, requiring me to have to merge
>them again? If so, this whole online stuff is completely worthless, if I
>have to spend more time manually changing things.

When you processed the transactions, I expect that Money asked if
these were new investments or ones you already had under another
name. One way to handle this would be to restore a backup that
pre-dates your download.

If you have already overwritten such a backup, take this opportunity
to review your backup strategy.

What follows would only apply if you do not have such a backup:

Recover by removing the symbol from the existing FBRGX transactions.
Change the name to something like Fidelity Blue Chip Growth OLD.
Assign the symbol to the new investment downloaded from Fidelity.

Change each existing transaction in Fidelity Blue Chip Growth OLD to
the new one. An easy way to get to all of those transactions is to
go to the investment and click on investment transactions. All of
the transactions are together there. If you get some problem about
selling before buying, create a big fake AddShares that predates all
transactions. Change the actual transactions. Then delete the fake
AddShares.