I have two TIAA contracts which contain mutual funds and other similar investments. I have a top level asset account named Retirement and below that are asset accounts for each contract. Under each contract are accounts for each mutual fund, ETF, etc. As far as I am aware all TIAA funds now have symbols and quotes can be obtained from Yahoo. The only exception is the TIAA guaranteed or stable-value fund. For that one I use pseudo shares with 1 dollar = 1 share. So each underlying mutual fund is setup to use prices updated by finance-quote. I download transactions once a month from the TIAA site.
To keep things organized I have separate income accounts for tax sheltered income and taxed income. Transactions under the Retirement account only affect the tax sheltered income accounts. Dale On Jul 22, 2017 10:38 PM, "AC" <gnuc...@acarver.net> wrote: > I may be misunderstanding, but it seems like the following would work: > Assets:TIAA (cash)Assets:TIAA:Lifecycle 1 (commodity)Assets:TIAA:Lifecycle > 2 (commodity)Assets:TIAA:TIAA Mutual Fund (commodity) > My experience of the so called "Lifecycle" funds is that they are just > like any other mutual funds. > When I handle payroll deductions, the dollars go into the cash account, > and a separate purchase transaction moves the cash into fund shares. It's a > little cumbersome, but it allows me to ensure that the right numbers get > in. > HTH, David > > > On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 8:38, AC<gnuc...@acarver.net> wrote: I want > to start tracking my TIAA retirement portfolio for informational > purposes (no reporting needs, filings, etc.) but I need some suggestions > on structuring the account trees so that it doesn't affect my existing > accounts. However, possibly later I'll edit things so that the paycheck > contributions are directed accordingly so I'd want the new accounts to > allow that eventually (i.e. for now I'll add contributions manually > using a virtual source and eventually go back through and move those to > withdraw from my paycheck, the amount withheld is already accounted) > > The trick with my TIAA portfolio is that it has three different products > within it. Two of them are TIAA funds (one of the lifecycle multi-asset > funds) that does not have a breakdown of the individual holdings (like a > mutual fund). These two only document the employer contributions, my > contributions, shares and interest/dividends. The third product is a > TIAA mutual fund for which the individual holdings are broken out with > all the same data as a typical mutual fund (shares, prices, etc.) > > What I expect to have is some type of top-level account that tracks the > overall value of the portfolio in dollars and then either within that or > somewhere nearby an account or account tree for each of the three > products. At first I had considered just making the two TIAA funds into > an account that was basically a mutual fund with a single holding but I > wasn't quite sure how to combine that with the one real mutual fund when > each of the three funds receives different amounts of contributions and > individual dividends. Perhaps it would be a top-level account then > three sub-accounts that are all mutual funds with two of them having one > holding and the last is the broken out holding? > > I don't plan on using this for any official reporting (I get those > documents already), and I don't plan on downloading statements, quotes, > or anything else. I'll just manually track things as my statements come > in and I enter the data from those, perhaps updating symbol share prices > manually if I'm interested at a particular time. I don't currently use > much reporting as is with my existing accounts except an occasional cash > flow report so as long as that isn't affected I'm fine. I do currently > have a mutual fund being tracked so I want to be careful not to cause > trouble for that either. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
