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- From: trocklin@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Tom Rocklin)
- Subject: Re: Quicken vs Managing Your Money
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.202524.21738@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- References: <shoemake-190193185030@shoemac.apple.com> <1jmdsqINN4qr@armory.centerline.com> <PETE.93Jan21120904@tatjana.rice.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:25:24 GMT
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- pete@tatjana.rice.edu (Louis Wu) writes:
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- >In article <1jmdsqINN4qr@armory.centerline.com> chapman@centerline.com (Scott Chapman, (Scott Chapman x233)) writes:
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- > >When buying mutual funds, it asks me the # of shares and price/share. I buy
- > >mutual funds by dollar amount not units of shares. So I have to use a
- > >calculator to figure out # of shares based on the dollar amount and price
- > >per share.
- > You are mistaken here, most (if not all) mutual funds *are* sold by shares.
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- >Not when you have a set amount of money automatically withdrawn from a bank
- >account by a mutual fund each week.
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- Well, most mutual funds are sold by the share, but are happy to sell fractional
- shares. Therefore, I can send a fund exactly $100 and purchase X shares
- where X is 100/price per share.
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- I suppose this doesn't belong in this newsgroup anymore, does it.
-
- Just to make it relevant, I too have to use a spreadsheet to track my
- mutual fund and hope that if Quicken ever does come out with its next
- version for the Mac, ti handles this kind of transaction sensibly.
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