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Posted by John Pollard on October 25, 2006, 3:36 pm
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> What would be the most accurate yet easiest way to get
> historical
> investment data into Quicken 2006 Premier? I have recently
> started
> using quicken and was able to download only the past 18 months
> of my
> investment history from Vanguard but I would really like to go
> back
> farther, ideally back to 2000 which is when I started being a
> little
> more serious about investing.
>
> Although I would really love to have this historial data I do
> not want
> sit down and manually enter all those transactions. I have
> been able to
> get history going back to 2001 from the vanguard web site into
> a
> spreadsheet but I do not know how to proceed from here.
>
> Ultimately my goal would be to track my networth and I would
> really
> love to see how my investments have grown over time and be
> able to
> compare the rate of return from year to year and to see how
> much of my
> nest egg came from my contributions and how much from other
> contributions (dividends, stock splits etc...). I think to get
> this
> level of detail I am going to need every transaction entered.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
Backup your Vanguard data.
Backup your Quicken data.
Google for, download, and install, the free Excel macro,
"xl2qif".
1.) Make sure your Vanguard data is formatted one row per
transaction and no other rows are present for a transaction.
2.) Make sure each row contains the minimum fields necessary for
a Quicken investment transaction. (Transaction Date, Action,
Security, Number of Shares, Amount ... and possibly
Price/Share). Other columns may be present, even if they do not
pertain to Quicken.
3.) Make sure you use appropriate Quicken data in Quicken
fields, not Vanguard data. For example, if the transaction is
for a dividend. the Quicken "Action" value must be "Div", not
"Distribution".
4.) Make sure your Excel security names are *exactly* the same
as the ones you use in Quicken if the transaction is for an
existing Quicken security. (Exactly means the same spelling,
the same case, the same punctuation, the same number of spaces
between words, etc.)
5.) Remove any heading rows and blank rows
5.) Select the Excel columns that contain the Quicken fields.
Use "xl2qif" to create a QIF file (Save to QIF) from your
Vanguard Excel data (first telling xl2qif which column each
Quicken field is in, by checking the Quicken field names in the
order their Excel columns appear).
Read - and print, if needed - a post from the Intuit Quicken
forums on importing QIF files into post-Q2004 versions of
Quicken (found in the "Other Topics" forum). Modify your QIF
file according to that post. Import.
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