tracking investment return
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I use MD to follow investments. With mutuals no problem: Div reinvest and price change go into the mix to show the return (from what I see - I'm new here). But with CDs it's not the same. Since the price of a CD doesn't change, inputting interest as a div reinvest increases the value but doesn't show up as a return (yield), which stays at 0%. Inputting it as misc income shows total interest on a separate line, but again doesn't calculate as a % return AND doesn't show as being reinvested.
Any way around this so that I can track the return on CDs?
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Tom Freeman
on 16 Dec, 2011 10:52 PM
Luigi
I admit the functionality on CD's are limited. Here is a good discussion on options other user's have worked on there CD's: http://help.infinitekind.com/discussions/questions/1087-stumped-by-...
If you can't find a solution there let me know.
Tom
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luigiluccarelli
on 17 Dec, 2011 07:00 AM
Tom
I agree - you could do better with CDs and investments in general. I bought Moneydance mostly to track investments, so I might be in a minority. Before moving to Mac, I used MS Money and it worked well for tracking investments.
I chose a different path that involves two transactions for CD interest.
(1) I enter the interest as MiscInc (under action) and as "interest received" (under category).
(2) Then I enter another transaction - a "buy" of the same amount of "shares".
This means the "cash balance" is always 0, and that I see a % return and $ amount of income when I click on "Investment Performance". The importance of this is that a can now see my return on total investments, which is what interests me in the long term.
Luigi
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