What's the correct way to transfer shares of one mutual
fund to another when there is no capital gain/loss issues?
Example: Exchange Vanguard Investor Shares into Admiral
Shares?

Re: transfer of shares by Dick

Dick
Fri Sep 12 17:17:53 CDT 2003

There's a capital gain/loss issue if it's in a non-deferred account. If it's
in a retirement account, the account status will take care of deferring the
gain/loss for tax purposes. Do what your broker does. Sell the one and Buy
the other.

"Richard Chewning" <dr.chewning@griffinobgyn.com> wrote in message
news:052001c37970$5af3c8d0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> What's the correct way to transfer shares of one mutual
> fund to another when there is no capital gain/loss issues?
> Example: Exchange Vanguard Investor Shares into Admiral
> Shares?



Re: transfer of shares by Mark

Mark
Sat Sep 13 02:45:11 CDT 2003


"Richard Chewning" <dr.chewning@griffinobgyn.com> wrote in message
news:052001c37970$5af3c8d0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> What's the correct way to transfer shares of one mutual
> fund to another when there is no capital gain/loss issues?
> Example: Exchange Vanguard Investor Shares into Admiral
> Shares?

Transferring shares does not happen in the real world so it can't be
duplicated in Money.

There has to be two transactions:

e.g.

1) Sell 100 shares Vanguard Investor for $10 each = $1000
and immediately
2) Use the $1000 to buy 50 shares Admiral for $20 each.

Mark Fields



Re: transfer of shares by XB77

XB77
Sat Sep 13 10:45:24 CDT 2003

You are not transferring shares. You are converting Investor Class shares
into Admiral Class shares. There is no change in basis. Your original
Investor Class purchase dates still apply. There are no capital gains or
losses. The best way to account for these conversions in Money is to just
change the name (symbol, etc.) of the security if both share classes have
the same price. If not, then you must account for the change in pricing and
number of shares by doing a stock split. Typically these are not integer
splits. Thus you will need to take the ratio out to some large numbers to
get the resultant number of shares to be correct. Dick Watson has a nice
little algorithm for finding the best split ratio. Cal Leamer might be able
to come up with a good ratio also.