Retrieving Historical Distributions and Splits

The Fund Manager Professional/Advisor versions can retrieve historical distributions and splits for your investments. For accurate recording of distributions all of your purchase/redemption type transactions should be updated, so that the share balance is correct for the date range being updated. Fund Manager uses your current share balance to determine the actual distribution amount, as the server reports distributions in "per share" amounts.

To use this feature select "Yahoo (Historical)" as the default historical quote server from the Internet Settings Dialog. Then, perform a retrieve with this server using Edit / Internet Retrieve / Historical Prices or use the button on the toolbar. You will be presented with a dialog box containing the following options:

From	Beginning date to request historical prices/distributions/splits. See comments below.
To	Ending date to request historical prices/distributions/splits.
Retrieve Distributions	Select this option to update historical distributions as retrieved from the server. Also select whether retrieved distributions should be recorded as reinvested or distributed. When choosing to reinvest you can either reinvest all of the distribution or only the amount needed for purchasing whole shares. The whole shares option may be useful when reinvesting with stocks, and your broker only allows purchasing of whole shares. When reinvesting whole shares, any un-used distribution will be recorded as distributed. Retrieved capital gain distributions will be assigned to the Short Term Capital Gain type, as Yahoo currently does not specify the length of the term of these distributions.
Retrieve Splits	Select this option to update historical splits as retrieved from the server.

Distribution/Split Comments: If you already have a distribution or split recorded for a particular date another one will not be recorded. This prevents previously entered/retrieved distributions or splits from being duplicated or overwritten. Your default cash account is updated with the value of any retrieved and recorded distributed distributions. Distribution information is provided from this server in "per share" amounts. When you do a distribution retrieve Fund Manager uses the number of shares you owned on the distribution date to determine the total value of the distribution. For this reason you should record/import your historical transactions before retrieving distributions.

If you own this investment, and are retrieving actual transactions from your broker or mutual fund company, you should not also retrieve distributions from Yahoo, as you may double count your distributions.

"From" Date Comments: Fund Manager initializes the "From" date in this dialog to the earliest of: 1) Date of the last recorded price in all investments being retrieved, or 2) Date of last retrieve, or 3) Yesterday. A special date control keyboard shortcut is available in this dialog. Press the "l" key to change the date to the earliest Last price among all investments being retrieved. Example: When retrieving 2 investments that have their latest closing prices on Jan 15 and Jan 16, the "From" date will default to Jan 16. Pressing the "l" key in the "From" date control will set that date to Jan 15.

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