Re: How to convert from Vanguard Investor shares to Vanguard Admiral shares

Jawesome! Thanks everyone. With everyone mentioning the cost basis, I rechecked the website and it says explicitly "…your cost basis information will carry over." If I'd have read the very site I linked I probably could've figured it out 😅. In any case, lining up all of the lots worked perfectl

Re: How to convert from Vanguard Investor shares to Vanguard Admiral shares

Hi, Problem: you have a bunch of old investor lots, and you want to convert them into new admiral lots. The new lots must be scaled for quantity and price, but must retain the original dates for the cost bases. Essentially, you want your transaction to look like: 2021-01-01 * "Conversion" Ass

Re: How to convert from Vanguard Investor shares to Vanguard Admiral shares

Sounds like the cost basis transfers over. If so, you can account for this by making the *total* basis of your new lots equal to the total basis of the original lots. The easiest way to do it is the total cost syntax using double curlys, but if the division ends up being irrational, you can get a

Re: How to convert from Vanguard Investor shares to Vanguard Admiral shares

> It doesn't seem right to make up some fake account to dump the difference > into only so the transaction balances, but that's the best I can come up > with. Any other ideas about what to do, or maybe what I can do differently > to track this correctly? It seems to me the question to ask is: h

How to convert from Vanguard Investor shares to Vanguard Admiral shares

I've got an issue that I cannot figure out. I've tried searching here, on GitHub, and reading the docs. But, I'm a bit stuck on what to do. Vanguard has three different share classes . The important ones for this situation are: Investor