Simple investment tracking - Wealthfront, Betterment, etc

[Matt Kowske]

Thanks -- I'm replying to the list for others benefit.

I think your categories make sense. I'll try something like that.

I haven't had much luck with the eguile version of the Balance Sheet,
but I think you can get achieve what you want with the regular version
(Balance Sheet report). If go in to Report Options and play with the
"Level of subaccounts" along with selecting only the accounts you are
interested in seeing. You can also set "Parent account subtotals" to
"Show subtotals" to get a total of your Cash, Investments, etc.

On 01/31/2016 02:42 PM, Ronald wrote:
>
> I have come to the same conclusion you did about tracking this type of
> investment. I have a 401K and similar Taxed account thru a portfolio
> manager (ex: Fidelity). For me all I want is to track the bottom line,
> income, withdrawals, change in value, etc on a monthly basis for this
> investment. These are provided on my Monthly and yearly statements. I
> am a new user so am experimenting on exactly how to set this up.
> Currently I have this set up as follows:
>
> Assets: investments:Broker1:IRA
>
> Assets: investments:Broker1:Taxed
>
> Equity: Opening Balance*
>
> Expenses: Broker1:Commisions*
>
> Expenses: Broker1:Management Fees*
>
> Income: Investments: IRA: income
>
> Income: Investments: IRA: Change in Value*
>
>  
>
> *These are values in the Mo, & Yr Statements at the top of the 1^st
> page of the report. Very simple. If I want to see the entire brokerage
> acct, I can go to the web page. I have the TAXED account set up the
> same as the IRA account. I set up a separate account for each value in
> the summary, so the above is not all inclusive at this time.
>
>  
>
> The problem I am having is to get a report that is easy to read. What
> I would like is to get the report to divide my ready cash accounts
> (Cash, Checkbook, Savings account & totals) to show separately from my
> Investment accounts (IRA, Taxed & total) and then give me value of my
> total assets. I don’t know enough about the reports to find this or
> maybe customize the readouts. Hope this helps. The closest I have so
> far is the BALANCE SHEET (EGUILE).
>
>  
>
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>
> *From: *jmk <mailto:jmk at cmail.nu>
> *Sent: *Sunday, January 31, 2016 1:33 PM
> *To: *GnuCash-User List <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> *Subject: *Simple investment tracking - Wealthfront, Betterment, etc
>
>  
>
> I was wondering if anyone has some tips on tracking investments through
>
> one of the robo advisors with their numerous trades.
>
>  
>
> I track individual funds in my 401k (which is tedious enough), but
>
> having securities/accounts defined for everything used in my Wealthfront
>
> account is becoming too time consuming. What are some "simplified"
>
> methods for tracking an investment portfolio?  Currently I'm doing
>
> something like this which doesn't feel right to me:
>
>  
>
> 1/3/16 : Monthly account value update
>
>    Assets:Investments:Wealthfront (+/- the difference from last months
>
> value)
>
>    Equity:Balance Adjustments (+/- the difference from last months value)
>
>  
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