[GNC] Do I treat a managed investment account as stocks, or no?

[Louise]

Thanks Adrien,

I'm trying to break my habit of making s more complicated than they need 
to be, so single fund it is!!

Thanks,

Louise



On 2026-05-08 10:03 a.m., Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> I would think one of the main benefits of a managed fund is to not 
> track individual stock performance!
>
> You're free to do so according to your own tolerance for pain.
>
> Personally, I'd just treat it as a single fund.
>
> There might be an exception if you also own one or more of those 
> stocks independent of the fund and want to track overall performance 
> just for your own info and peace of mind. But that might be better 
> left for a spreadsheet or other outside app. The real-world 
> transactions you commit are via the fund.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 5/3/26 4:36 PM, Louise wrote:
>> I have a managed investment account where I deposit funds monthly, 
>> and someone, or AI, decides what stocks to buy.
>>
>> So far, in GnuCash, I have just been transferring my deposits to the 
>> appropriate account. When the dividends are paid out I have simple 
>> been allocating the amounts to a plain account per stock.
>>
>> Should I be treating these "purchases" as stocks, or is this not 
>> necessary?
>
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