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(Jump To Versions:  10.x - 9.x - 8.x - 7.x - 6.x - 5.x - 4.x - 3.x - 2.x - 1.x)

January 29, 2010 versions 10.4:

  • When retrieving transactions or importing transactions from a QFX/OFX file, any specified pricing data is used to update closing prices
  • New "Importing Transaction Details" dialog to show more detail on importing transactions.  Right mouse click on any transaction in the "Preview Importing Transactions" dialog to access.
  • Added new option "Default Cash Account Distributions are Reinvested" to both the transaction retrieve and the QFX/OFX transaction import
  • Added new option "Record Matching Purchase/Distribution as Reinvestment" to both the transaction retrieve and the QFX/OFX transaction import
  • Improved QFX/OFX parsing robustness to better handle invalid characters
  • For calculating portfolio external cash flows, omit matching buy/sell transactions in the default cash account
  • Improved investment selection dialog for selecting a Benchmark or Exchange Rate Investments in the Currency dialog.  Instead of one long list, you can now select by sub-portfolio first, to narrow the choices.
  • Significant creation speed and memory usage improvements in certain reports.  Especially noticeable on larger portfolios.
  • Bug fix:
    • Option to "Skip Transactions Already in Fund Manager" during import/retrieve was not always working properly.  In some cases an interest type of distribution would be re-imported even if it was already in Fund Manager.
    • Updated Scottrade Advisor transaction import for proper Short, Medium, and Long term capital gain assignment and also to use Transfer In/Out instead of Buy/Sell in some cases
    • Changing the "Accounting Method" option in the "Investment Properties..." dialog would not cause the "Apply" button to enable.
    • Yields above investment graphs would not refresh automatically in some cases
    • Newly created sub-portfolios would not always properly initialize "Management Fee Method" to "<No Assigned Method>"

December 16, 2009 versions 10.3:

  • SchwabLink interface improvements relating to CDs maturing
  • Scottrade institutional interface improvements related to expiring options
  • TD Ameritrade and BrokersXpress institutional interface improvements (added support for CJOUR/DJOUR transaction codes)
  • "Income" properties of new investments default to that of other existing investments with the same symbol when not explicitly specified
  • Bug fixes:
    • When creating a Management Fee report with an account using the "% of Average Value" method the program would hang
    • Selecting an investment to graph would sometimes graph the wrong investment when the option to not graph cash type investments was on
    • Data Register would not open when there were no other open windows
    • Turning on "View / Hidden Investments/Portfolios" would not always display investments hidden from the report option "Do Not Display Investments With Zero Shares Owned"
    • Parsing of an OFX file could sometimes miss a transaction or position in rare cases
    • When importing OFX or retrieving transactions and a new investment had an ampersand in the name, FM would leave the encoded "&amp;" value instead of replacing it with the intended ampersand character
    • "Edit / Symbol List... / Internet Retrieve / Multiply Retrieved By" was not being initialized properly when number formatting was set to 1.000,00 style

November 18, 2009 versions 10.2:

  • Updated Scottrade institutional interface
  • Bug fixes:
    • When using wash sale rules the unrealized tax cost basis and gain/loss figures could be incorrect in some cases
    • The status dialog would stay open after the import finished for the generic transaction import when any import error happened

November 9, 2009 versions 10.1:

  • Added option to use absolute value of investments when calculating managed value.  Helpful when managing short positions.  See Report Preferences... / Management Fees / Use Absolute Value of Short Positions for Managed Value Calculations.
  • Capital gains option to "Use Wash Sale Rules" now applies when displaying tax cost basis and unrealized gain/loss in the Portfolio Editor or a Custom report (Pro or Advisor)
  • Limit number of error messages when user does not have sufficient permissions to change file associations
  • Bug fixes:
    • Transaction could sometimes be incorrectly determined as external if multiple transactions for the same amount on the same date occurred
    • TWR calculations could be incorrect when internal transactions happened at a price different than the closing price
    • Corrected tab order in "commission" based buy/sell dialogs

October 23, 2009 versions 10.0:

  • Bond Support:
    • New "Income" investment properties.  3 styles of income:
      • None
      • Bond Interest: Enter Maturity Date, Coupon %, Payment Frequency, Day Count Basis, and Issue Date
      • Dividends: Enter # Payments/Year, Payment/Share, Dates of Payments
    • New "Bond Summary" report:
      • Choose fields to include:  Sub-portfolio, Account #, Price, Face Value, Current Yield, Yield To Maturity (YTM), Accrued Days, Accrued Interest, Accrued Interest per share, Next Coupon Date, Next Coupon Value, Next Coupon Value per share, Coupon Rate, Annual Income, Annual Income per share, Maturity Date, Payment Frequency, Day Count Basis, or Issue Date
      • List by Investment or Symbol
      • Sub-total by Sub-portfolio or Symbol
      • Filter by Symbol
    • New "Income Schedule" report:
      • Display for a specific investment, or a whole sub-portfolio
      • Includes payments from investments with either "Bond Interest" or "Dividend" income style
      • Lists each payment in date range, plus totals
      • Choose fields to include:  Sub-portfolio, Account #, Shares, Payment Date, Payment Amount, or Payment per share
      • Filter by Symbol, Asset Type, Investment Goal, Investment Type, or Income Style
    • Option to include accrued interest in ROI & TWR (new Time-Weighted Return) calculations.  On by default.  See "General Preferences... / Yields".
    • Updated "New Investment" dialog to allow for bond details to be entered when creating a new bond investment.  Can also edit under "Investment Properties... / Income" or "Edit / Symbol List...".
    • Option to enter any accrued interest paid when purchasing a bond or accrued interest received when selling.  Enter in same dialog as purchase/sell.
    • Optionally include accrued interest in Portfolio Performance and new Executive Summary reports.  See "Options / Report Preferences...".  When this option is on, the beginning/ending/gain values are inclusive of accrued interest.
    • New Portfolio Editor columns:  Income Style, Maturity Date, Coupon Rate, Payment Frequency, and Issue Date
  • Management Fees support:  (Advisor version only)
    • New "Management Fee Method" sub-portfolio property
    • Define any number of management fee methods and assign them names
    • Management fee method options include: No Fees, % of Beginning, Average, or Ending Value, or a Fixed Fee.  For percentage of managed values, use a Fixed %, Tiered %, or a Fixed % by investment type.
    • New investment property option to exclude from management fees.  See "Investment Properties... / Other / Exempt From Management Fees".
    • New "Management Fees" report:
      • Displays management fees and related information for sub-portfolios with an assigned management fee method
      • Optionally sub-total by client
  • New "Executive Summary" report:  (Advisor version only)
    • High level summary of client's portfolio
    • Portfolio Activity Summary shows starting balance, contributions, withdrawals, fees, gain/loss, and ending balance
    • Optionally show a pie chart by Investment, Symbol, Type, Asset, Goal, Sub-portfolio, or Currency
    • Portfolio Performance Summary shows return earned for a variety of time periods
    • Index Performance Summary shows returns of any number of indices for the same time periods for easy comparison of portfolio returns to the indices
  • New "Time-Weighted Returns":
    • GIPS compatible "true" Time-Weighted returns (TWR)
    • Calculate for a sub-portfolio, investment, symbol, asset type, investment goal, or investment type
    • Excludes effects of external cash flows
    • Ideal for looking at performance of intrinsic investment item
    • Complimentary to existing Return On Investment (ROI) yields which are both time and money weighted
    • New "Time-Weighted Return" report
    • TWR fields available in Custom, Investment Performance, and Executive Summary reports, and above portfolio based graphs
  • New "External Cash Flow" support:
    • View cash flows into/out of sub-portfolios.  Shows cash flows "external" to the account.  Excludes internal purchases/sells, reinvestments, and retained distributions.
    • New report fields: Contributions, Withdrawals, Withdrawn Distributions, Retained Distributions
    • Portfolio Performance and Executive Summary reports have new choices for "Cash Flow Style".  Choose from displaying fields:
      • Invested and Distrib. (previous version style)
      • Contributions, Withdrawals, and Withdrawn Distributions
      • Contributions, Withdrawals, Withdrawn Distributions, and Fees
    • New filter option for the Investment Transactions report to only show portfolio external transactions.  Makes it convenient to see details of additions/withdrawals.
    • See documentation on external cash flow for more details
  • Added 5 new types of distributions:
    • 5 new types: Foreign Tax, User-defined 1-4
    • All 13 distribution types can have their labels customized.  See "Options / Distribution Labels...".
    • New custom report fields for both the value and per share amounts for the new distribution types
    • Added ability to customize which distribution types are displayed in the Distribution Summary report.  By default, only non-zero distribution types are displayed.  You can also manually choose which distribution types to display.  See "Report Preferences... / Distribution Summary".
  • Windows 7 compatible
  • Logo support for reports.  Add your own logo into report headers.  See "Report Preferences... / Logo".  (Advisor version only)
  • Reports can now be directly exported to CSV files.  See "File / Export to CSV...".
  • New "Generic" transaction export.  Export desired data in any order using an export format string.  The format string is the same format as the generic transaction import.  Export for any date range.
  • Added option to prevent changes to reconciled data.  When modifying any transaction data for a date that has already been reconciled, a warning message will show.  You will be given the opportunity to choose whether or not to continue recording this data.  See "General Preferences... / Data / Warn When Modifying Reconciled Data".
  • Added ability to calculate turnover for any object: investment, symbol, asset, goal, investment type, or sub-portfolio.  Turnover is an annualized and normalized value, calculated from the lesser of purchases/redemptions divided by the average value.  For details see Turnover in the documentation.
  • Added ability to calculate standard deviation of returns for any object: investment, symbol, asset, goal, investment type, or sub-portfolio.  Calculation on objects with multiple investments incorporate covariance between objects to obtain meaningful measure of volatility or risk.  (Professional or Advisor versions only).  For details see Standard Deviation of Returns in the documentation.
  • Improved Asset Type and Investment Goal categories:
    • Increased number of categories from 25 to 100
    • Increased maximum category label length from 20 to 50
  • Added "Reconciled" to portfolio properties dialog to display last reconciled date.  Optionally reset by clicking on hyperlinked date.
  • Improved Backup/Restore.  Now global preferences from the registry are always included in the backup.  Restoring registry settings maintains current permissions.  Previously backups could only include registry preferences when running as an admin, and not under all versions of Windows, or under Vista with UAC on.  Also, restoring from one user to a different user could fail due to permission problems.
  • Option to omit weekends from graphs.  See "Graphs / Options / Display...".  By default, weekends are omitted, to show better graph resolution for actual recorded data.
  • Option to not display "Cash" investment types on investment based graphs.  See "Graphs / Options / Display...".
  • Added Heikin-Ashi Candlestick graph type to the Technical Analysis graph  (Professional or Advisor versions only)
  • Added new quote server: Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI)
  • Added new quote server: Finra - Bonds
  • Optional "Audit Log".  Records details of every change to the data, including user who made changes, date, time, and specific change.  See "General Preferences... / Data / Enable Audit Trail Logging".  (Advisor version only)
  • Added option to filter out tax-free investments from Open Lots and Investment Transactions reports
  • Added support for importing Transfer In and Transfer Out transactions to the generic transaction import
  • Improved method for determining currency for new investments automatically created during an import or retrieve.  First looks for other investments with the same symbol, second looks at other investments in the sub-portfolio.
  • Added more details to "Wash Sale Adjustment" lines in Capital Gains reports:  investment name, number of replacement shares, and date replacement shares were purchased.  Previously only showed the amount of the disallowed loss.
  • Improved "New Investment" dialog to not require a Name or Symbol
  • Added option to log yield calculation details (both ROI and TWR) to a file.  See "General Preferences... / Yields".
  • Improved Batch Printing:  (Advisor version only)
    • Reports can be output to any combination of: Printer, JPEG Image file, EMF Image file, CSV file
    • Graphs can be output to any combination of: Printer, JPEG Image file, EMF Image file
    • Select output folder and format choices under "File / Batch Print... / Options..."
  • Improved price export to have ability to filter by date and control whether or not hidden investments are exported
  • Improved Preview Importing Transactions dialog so multiple transactions can be selected/un-selected for import at once.  Select using Ctrl and Shift keys.  Right mouse click to choose whether or not to import selected transactions.
  • Increased maximum report disclaimer text length from about 400 characters to 4096
  • Progress bar displayed when saving investments
  • Progress/status dialog displayed when importing large number of transactions
  • New option to specify default accounting method for new investments.  See "General Preferences... / Other".
  • Improved "New Portfolio Wizard" when retrieving investment banking transactions.  Previously these were ignored until there was a default cash account established.
  • Rebalance targets can be specified as decimals.  Only integer values were allowed previously.
  • QIF import improvements
  • Hide Sold Investments dialog is initialized with the last used settings
  • When closing a sub-portfolio the warning dialog displays the total number of investments in the sub-portfolio.  Especially helpful in the case where there are hidden investments.
  • Portfolio files (*.mm4) remember the 'restored' size of all open windows, in addition to maximized/restored state.  Previously if windows were maximized the restored window size was not saved.
  • Opening a portfolio file with no saved windows will now open the Portfolio Editor.  Meant to help avoid confusion when opening a portfolio where no windows are part of the portfolio.
  • New "Custom" report fields:
    • Accrued interest (beginning) and (end)
    • Accrued interest days (beginning) and (end)
    • Contributions (between)
    • Coupon rate
    • Current yield
    • CUSIP
    • Face value
    • Foreign Tax distributions (between)
    • Foreign Tax distributions per share (between)
    • %Gain-AI (between)
    • Gain-AI (between)
    • Income style
    • Management Fee Method
    • Maturity date
    • Next income date
    • Next income value
    • Payment frequency
    • Projected annual income
    • Out of pocket basis with AI (between)
    • Owner
    • Redemptions out of pocket (between)
    • Retained dist. distributions (between)
    • Standard deviation of returns (ending)
    • Standard deviation of returns annualized (ending)
    • Time-weighted return (between)
    • Time-weighted return (inception)
    • Time-weighted 3 months (ending)
    • Time-weighted 6 months (ending)
    • Time-weighted 1 year (ending)
    • Time-weighted 3 years (ending)
    • Time-weighted 5 years (ending)
    • Time-weighted 10 years (ending)
    • Transfer In, OOP (between)
    • Transfer Out, OOP (between)
    • Turnover
    • User-defined 1 distributions (between)
    • User-defined 1 distributions per share (between)
    • User-defined 2 distributions (between)
    • User-defined 2 distributions per share (between)
    • User-defined 3 distributions (between)
    • User-defined 3 distributions per share (between)
    • User-defined 4 distributions (between)
    • User-defined 4 distributions per share (between)
    • Withdrawals (between)
    • Withdrawn dist. distributions (between)
    • Yield to maturity (YTM)
  • Miscellaneous minor improvements
  • Bug fixes:
    • Move Up/Down buttons in Custom Report Settings dialog were not always properly enabled/disabled

September 18, 2009 versions 9.7:  [Download: Personal, Professional, Advisor]

  • QIF import improvements.  Supports transfers and cash transactions can optionally be imported into the default cash account.
  • Bug fixes:
    • Transfer IN transactions that were closing a short position would have an incorrectly reported cost per share
    • Transfer transactions were not being adjusted by an assigned exchange rate
    • When importing transactions with option to "skip transactions already in Fund Manager", value based comparisons were being done to 6 significant digits instead of 2

May 21, 2009 versions 9.6:

  • Bug fixes:
    • Toggling "View / Exchange Rate Adjusted" would not cause any yields above portfolio based graphs to refresh
    • Fixed memory leak when creating any Capital Gain, Open Lot, or Investment Transaction report
    • Program could crash under certain conditions
    • Report option to "Hide totals in footer" was not honored in the ROI Yield and Fund Performance Yield reports.  The option was also not being correctly retained when switching report types.

March 2, 2009 versions 9.5:

  • Bug fixes:
    • Program could crash in some cases when Preview Transactions dialog was being sorted by investment name
    • Price based fields in reports were not being displayed with thousands separator (comma or period)
    • Program could crash when importing certain .QIF files
    • Program could crash when closing an investment via right mouse menu in a report sub-totaled by anything other than sub-portfolio
    • Cost basis, unrealized gains, and % gain numbers were sometimes being incorrectly reported as "N/A" in the Portfolio Editor

January 6, 2009 versions 9.4:

  • Added Vista x64 to list of supported/compatible operating systems
  • Added "This Server Requires Secure Connection (SSL)" option in the email configuration dialog for sending email alerts through a mail server
  • Prevent Transfer Between wizard from transferring between investments in different currencies (not supported currently)
  • Updated the "Open Lots" report to use original purchase date/price for Transfer transactions, instead of the transfer date/price
  • When opening a portfolio with older version investments and the user selects to not convert the investments to the new format, Fund Manager does not automatically save your portfolio on exit when that option is on.  User is prompted instead.  Meant to prevent accidentally saving an empty portfolio.
  • File / Restore... command only offers/attempts to restore registry settings when the user has sufficient permissions
  • Suspend auto-save and automatic price retrieve while working in the New Portfolio Wizard
  • Bug fixes:
    • Program could crash when using the "Transfer Between..." wizard
    • When printer didn't have any "Source" options, none of the other page setup options could be set
    • Disabled "Next" buttons after first press in several wizards (New Portfolio Setup, Transaction Retrieve, and Reconciliation), to help prevent performing same operation twice

September 24, 2008 versions 9.3:

  • Bug fixes:
    • When opening a portfolio with "View / Exchange Rate Adjusted" on, any investments assigned to currencies in the new 9 through 25 positions under "Options / Currency Settings..." would be incorrectly exchanged.
    • The preference to remove "Name" or "Symbol" from the Portfolio Editor list view would not be properly recalled after re-starting
    • The "% of Portfolio" Portfolio Editor list view field would sometimes incorrectly show a value when the selected sub-portfolio has a zero balance

September 15, 2008 versions 9.2:

  • Added support for BrokersXpress broker/dealer interface
  • Added support for T. Rowe Price Retirement Plans
  • Added new keys to the generic transaction import for CUSIP, investment account number, investment description, accounting method, and tax-free status
  • Bug fixes:
    • In some cases Fund Manager would incorrectly report it was not able to update pricing from a quote server
    • In some cases the "Transfer Shares Between Investments" dialog would not allow you to transfer all owned shares
    • Quote/Transaction updating module (fmadmin.exe) would fail when download had a CRC value greater than 2G

September 2, 2008 versions 9.1:

  • Added support for retrieving transactions from Oppenheimer
  • Added support for new "Fund Library (Canadian Mutuals)" quote server
  • Improved user interface for controlling when to hide sold investments in reports
  • Bug fixes:
    • Graph markers not always displayed at the proper value in the investment gain graph, when in the current cost mode
    • Program could crash in some cases while opening a portfolio
    • Program could crash during a restore if the Portfolio Editor was open, and the number of displayed Portfolio Editor columns was changing due to the restore
    • Capital gains on short sales would sometimes incorrectly show all zeroes

August 19, 2008 versions 9.0:

The change list for versions 9.0 is grouped into the following categories:

General Improvements
Graph Related Improvements
Report Related Improvements
Portfolio Editor Related Improvements
Minor/Other Improvements

General Improvements

  • New "Transfer" transactions:
    • Transfer In: Add shares to an investment.  Separate the market value and transfer date from the cost basis and purchase date.  Useful in many cases such as receipt of gifted shares, account transfers, spin-offs, class conversions, etc.
    • Transfer Out: Remove shares without generating a capital gains event.  Use when gifting shares, or transferring between accounts.
    • New "Transfer Shares Between Investments" wizard.  Transfer shares in a tax-free manner between investments, while maintaining cost basis.  Especially helpful when transferring multiple lots.
  • Data Register improvements:
    • Copy/paste prices and transactions.  Useful for moving data to a different investment.  Use the right mouse menu or the new down arrow button to copy and paste.
    • New "down arrow" button for quick access to related commands
    • Dialog can be resized
    • Size and position are memorized, and restored when re-opening
    • Dialog can be maximized
    • Adjustable font
    • Negative values can be displayed in user-defined color (default is red)
    • Alternate rows can be shaded a different color for easier viewing
    • See "Options / General Preferences... / Data Register Display"
  • Improved Backup and Restore:
    • Now includes all Fund Manager data: Portfolio file, investment files, registry preferences, and client database for the Advisor version
    • Backup is now a single *.FMB file.  Easier management of multiple backups, and prevents confusion on accidentally opening data files from a backup.
    • Restore allows you to pick select items to restore or to pick everything
    • Restore to original location, or specify any alternate location
    • Auto-backup also uses same new .FMB file format
    • Auto-backup supports saving multiple revisions.  Specify maximum number of revisions to keep under "Options / General Preferences... / Data".
  • Improved New Portfolio Wizard.  Added the following choices for setup:
    • Retrieve Transactions & Positions
    • Retrieve Transactions Only
    • Retrieve Positions Only
    • Manually Enter Positions
    Provides more flexible 'getting started' options.  "Retrieve Transactions & Positions" allows retrieval of all available transactions, and then any necessary adjustments to get to current positions are automatically created.  Helpful when the full transaction history of an account is no longer available on the OFX server.
  • Added a "Manually Reconcile" choice in the Reconciliation Wizard.  Allows you to manually reconcile your sub-portfolio for any date you choose.
  • Added a second, parallel quote server, called the "Historical Quote Server".  Useful when you use more than 1 quote server often.  Works just like the primary quote server, but has its own set of menu commands and toolbar button, so you don't have to switch the default quote server back/forth.  Can be used for any quote server, not only historical.
  • New quote servers:
    • Bloomberg (Historical)
    • Google (Historical)
    • Google (Real-Time) (Professional and Advisor versions only)
    • Yahoo (Real-Time) (Professional and Advisor versions only)
  • Improved printing.  New "Print" dialogs allow selection of printer, properties, and choice for number of copies.  New "Page Setup" dialogs offer improved flexibility and option to go straight to printing or previewing.  Printing of Data Register data (prices, investments, distributions) allows specifying any date range.
  • New "Symbol List" editor.  Allows modifying properties of multiple investments at once that have the same symbol.  Also allows manually recording the same split transaction in these investments.  Useful to make bulk edits to investments when some property changes, or a split occurs. (Advisor version only)
  • Improved currency support.  Increased maximum currencies within a portfolio to 25.  Currency symbols can now be up to 5 characters long.
  • Improved Spin-off wizard:
    • Added tax-free spin-off support
    • Improved taxable spin-off support
    • Added support for separate cost basis and market value in spun-off child
    • Utilizes new "Transfer In" transaction types to allow spun-off market value and cost basis to be separate
    • Uses 2 distributions in parent (Return of Capital and Other) to record the transfer of cost basis and market value.  Return of Capital accounts for the spun-off cost basis.  The Other distribution accounts for the difference between the cost basis and market value of the spin-off.  Accurately reflects performance of parent.
  • New, more colorful, toolbar icons
  • Improved "Specify Lots" dialog:
    • Added 'checkmark' icon to help visually see which redemptions are fully specified and which purchases are completely used
    • Dialog can be resized
    • Added a 'Price' column in the redemption list
    • Eliminated the need to press 'Update' after changing specified share quantity
    • Double click on any purchase to use/un-use those shares
  • Added investment property to multiply retrieved price by any multiplier before updating.  Helpful in cases where price is only available in pence/pounds, and you want pounds/pence.  See "Investment Properties... / Internet Retrieve / Multiple Retrieved Price By:".
  • New global preference for investment description.  Choices are: Name, Symbol, or (Symbol) Name.  See "Options / General Preferences... / Display".

Graph Related Improvements

  • Added "Date Range" combo box to toolbar for easy access to changing date ranges
  • New "Crosshair" cursor type.  See "Graphs / Options / Cursor Type".
  • Made graph borders 'frameless' so data at edges is easier to read
  • Added option to  clear background in legend area for easier reading.  See "Options / Graphs / Display / Legend Text is Opaque".
  • Added more keyboard shortcuts, and improved shortcut documentation
  • Improved legend scrolling:
    • Pie chart doesn't flicker when scrolling the legend
    • In addition to keyboard shortcuts, you can now mouse click on the arrows  to scroll the Pie and Stacked graph legends
  • Added "Clear All" button to Investment and Portfolio Overlay dialogs

Report Related Improvements

  • New "Rebalance" report:
    • Compare your actual allocations against targets you've specified.  Displays Actual %, Target %, Delta %, and Delta Value.
    • You can define any number of named allocation targets, and then when you create the report, you choose which allocation target to compare against
    • Allocation targets can be defined based on Investment Type, Asset Type, Investment Goal, or Currency.
  • New "Open Lots" report:
    • Lists information on each un-sold lot for a given investment, or all investments within a sub-portfolio
    • Customize what data fields (columns) to display.  See "Options / Report Preferences... / Open Lots".
    • Choose accounting method to use (Assigned Investment Property, FIFO, AVG, or Specific Lot)
    • Advanced filtering capabilities.  Filter by Symbol, Investment Type, Asset Type, Investment Goal, and Memo contents.
    • Option to exclude cash investments.
  • Improved "Investment Transaction" report:
    • Sort by any displayed column (Sort menu)
    • Select which fields (columns) are included in report (Options / Report Preferences... / Investment Transactions)
    • Added "Investment" and "Account" columns when displaying more than one investment
    • Advanced filtering capabilities.  Filter by Symbol, Investment Type, Asset Type, Investment Goal, Transaction type, and Memo contents.
    • Option to exclude cash investments.
  • Custom report headers: (Advisor version only)
    • Specify the text to use for the sub-title and default title
    • Headers can include "mail merge" fields, to insert a wide variety of fields into report headers, like client's name, tax ID, etc.
    • Sub-title can be any number of lines long
    • See "Options / Report Headers..."
  • Added ability to "List By" and "Filter By" Currency in the Portfolio Value report
  • New option to limit the maximum number of levels of hierarchy displayed when sub-totaling.  Useful when a higher level summary is all you want.  See "Limit Hierarchy to X Levels" in the Report Settings dialog.  (Advisor version only)
  • Investments now have a new property for their accounting method under "Investment Properties... / Other".  Enables Capital Gain and Open Lot reports to support multiple accounting methods within a given report.    The settings for these reports allow you to choose an "Accounting Method".  Choose from:  Assigned Investment Property, First In First Out, Average Cost, or Specified Lots.  By choosing the "Assigned Investment Property" method, each investment can use its own accounting method.  By choosing any of the other accounting methods the report is calculated using that method, overriding the investment's property.
  • Consolidated different Capital Gain reports into 1, with choice of accounting method 
  • Option to automatically not display sold investments (without having to make them hidden).  Options available to not display investments with zero shares owned only on the ending report date, or over the entire date range.  See "Options / Report Preferences / General / Do Not Display Investments With Zero Share Balance".
  • Improved "Portfolio Performance" report.  Choose which performance metrics to include.  See "Options / Report Preferences... / Portfolio Performance".
  • New custom report fields:
    • Account of parent portfolio
    • Alert distance (ending)
    • Alert distance percentage (ending)
    • Alert trigger price (ending)
    • Highest value (between)
    • Historical quote server
    • Lowest value (between)
    • Price trend
    • Purchases out of pocket (between)
    • Transfers In, market value (between)
    • Transfers Out, market value (between)
  • Improved "Distribution Summary" report by adding option "Do Not Display Line Items With No Distributions".  See "Options / Report Preferences / Distribution Summary".
  • Improved reporting flexibility when filtering by symbol.  Calculate/display all share based figures for sub-portfolio lines in Custom reports that are filtering by symbol.  Calculate/display Price and Shares on sub-portfolio lines in Portfolio Value reports that are filtering by symbol.  Helpful when trying to find summary information on a given symbol.

Portfolio Editor Related Improvements

  • Improved appearance:
    • Adjustable font
    • Negative values can be displayed in user-defined color (default is red)
    • Alternate rows can be shaded a different color for easier viewing
    • See "Options / General Preferences... / Portfolio Editor Display"
  • Portfolio Properties... dialog now displays the assigned "Owner".  Assignment is a hyperlink for easy editing.  Choose an owner from anyone in your client list.  (Advisor version only)
  • New list fields:
    • # Transfers In
    • # Transfers Out
    • Historical Quote Server
    • Alert Trigger
    • Alert Distance
    • Alert Distance %
    • Price Trend
    • OOP Historical Basis Per Share
    • OOP Historical Gain Per Share
    • OOP Current Basis Per Share
    • OOP Current Gain Per Share
    • FIFO Basis Per Share
    • FIFO Unrlz Gain Per Share
    • AVG Basis Per Share
    • AVG Unrlz Gain Per Share
    • Spec Lot Basis Per Share
    • Spec Lot Unrlz Gain Per Share
  • Documented list field definitions in online help
  • Added option to apply 'hidden' sub-portfolio attribute to all lower level sub-portfolios

Minor/Other Improvements

  • Improved calculation speed
  • Improved Quote and Transaction module update to be Vista compatible.  Module updates can now be performed without running Fund Manager as an administrator.
  • Increased maximum value for all the 'volume' fields from 4E9 up to 1E19.  Some indices can have volumes larger than 4E9, so the new maximum was needed.
  • Improved OFX position retrieve/import to put "available cash" into a cash investment
  • Account numbers, usernames, and passwords are stored encrypted in the portfolio file (*.mm4)
  • Right mouse menu commands added in Reconciliation Wizard to quickly access Data Register and Investment Properties...
  • Currently assigned quote server is displayed in toolbar's tooltip and in the status bar when selecting price retrieve menu command.  Helpful to remember your currently assigned default quote server.
  • Added support to utilize Vista's "Default Programs" interface to associate Fund Manager with .MM4, .DAT, .OFX, or .QFX files
  • Added option to associate .MM4 and .DAT files with Fund Manager under "Options / General Preferences / Other"
  • Improved generic transaction import with new import keys:
    • ACCT: Portfolio account number to import into
    • CURRENCY: Currency for new investments
    • ASSET: Asset type for new investments
    • GOAL: Investment goal for new investments
    Also added option to "Skip Transactions Already In Fund Manager"
  • Added a selection for "investment in scrolling position" to the investment overlay selection dialog.  Allows choice of which investment will be scrolled with keyboard shortcuts.
  • Improved Southwest Securities transaction import (Advisor version only)
  • Fixed issue where having an offline network printer could cause report creation to take a long time
  • Bug Fixes:
    • Graph legend field [[EINVPRICE]] was incorrectly being allowed on portfolio based graphs.  When used, would cause Fund Manager to crash.
    • Custom report 'Shares (ending)' would sometimes be wrong on sub-total lines when sub-totaling by symbol
    • Yield column in Portfolio Performance report was not honoring filter settings.  (It was always including all investments, even when they should have been fully or partially filtered out.)
    • Color printing of reports with the background shading turned on was not printing the background shading properly

March 18, 2008 versions 8.10:  [Download: Personal, Professional, Advisor]

  • Improved Southwest Securities import to handle more option cases
  • Bug fixes:
    • "Gain" column was sometimes incorrect in Portfolio Performance report when filtering was turned on
    • Email alerts being sent directly through a mail server would fail when running under Vista with User Account Control (UAC) turned on

February 7, 2008 versions 8.9:

  • Bug fixes:
    • Incorrect percentage of portfolio value could sometimes be displayed in Portfolio Value report when a very small fractional share amount was owned
    • Yield term could sometimes be off by 1 day when spanning a leap year
    • In a custom report being sub-totaled by Asset Type or Investment Goal investment values were reporting the full amount, instead of the scaled amount for the percentage owned in that Asset Type or Investment Goal
    • When importing transactions caused a new sub-portfolio to be created, different accounts could be combined into a common sub-portfolio if the account names matched (even when account numbers were different)

December 10, 2007 versions 8.8:

  • Bug fixes:
    • Investment property to "Ignore When Reconciling" was not being saved/recalled
    • Reconciliation was not accounting for situation where there were multiple instances of the same investment in a sub-portfolio
    • Right mouse clicking on an investment in a report and selecting to graph it would not always display the selected investment
    • Advisor version: Reconciliation sources were not listing FOLIOfn
    • Advisor version: Some option and margin interest transactions from the Scottrade B/D interface were not importing properly

September 6, 2007 versions 8.7:

  • Added support for calculating %gains on investments that are both long and short within the time period being calculated
  • Improved generic price import: skips non-matching lines and improved error reporting
  • Improved TD Ameritrade B/D interface for importing bonds and options
  • Added %Gain-F and Fund Performance Yield simple averages to sub-total lines in the custom report
  • Improved Scottrade B/D transaction import
  • Bug fixes:
    • Generic price import could crash the program in some cases
    • %Gain-F and Fund Performance Yield simple average sub-totals in the Investment Performance report were ignoring filter settings
    • When multiple graph windows were opened, only 1 was being closed prior to opening a new portfolio
    • Out of pocket %gains were not properly handling negative cost basis components

July 23, 2007 versions 8.6:

  • Improved speed when filtering by symbol, especially for large portfolios
  • Added new generic transaction import keys: MEMO, DIST_O, and REINV_O
  • Added support for importing from FOLIOfn for advisors
  • Added calculating %Gains on short positions
  • Improved Scottrade and Fiserv ISS imports
  • Bug fixes:
    • Fixed bond transaction/position importing from OFX.  Was previously importing with 100X shares.
    • If an investment/portfolio starts or ends in a short position, ROI yields will not be displayed

May 14, 2007 versions 8.5:

  • Purchases (between) and Average Purchase Price (between) fields in the custom report were changed to include commission fees
  • Scottrade B/D interface improved to support foreign taxes paid
  • Graphs maintain their investment stack position in more cases when creating/opening/moving investments in other sub-portfolios
  • Vista security compatibility updates
  • Changed location where temporary log files are created from the folder when Fund Manager was installed to the current user's Application Data\Fund Manager folder
  • Improved error reporting when failing to update quote or transaction modules because of permission problems under Vista
  • Bug fix - Web News/Account Fee/Spin-off commands from the right mouse menu in the Graphs window were not always bringing up the correct investment

April 2, 2007 versions 8.4:

  • Improved Fidelity Advisor CHANNEL import to optionally map 'manfee' transactions to account fees deducted from the default cash account
  • Bug fixes:
    • Program could crash when pressing "Move Down" or "Move Up" in the "Investments / Order..." dialog when the investment was already at the bottom or top of the stack
    • Program could crash when using some of the export commands

March 18, 2007 versions 8.3:

  • Added a new investment property "Ignore When Reconciling".  See "Investment Properties... / Other".  Useful for cash or other investments not reported by broker/fund company when retrieving an online statement for reconciling.
  • Reconciliation improvement.  Some brokers list cash balances as "Available Cash", but not as a specific position.  In these cases FM will reconcile the "Available Cash" against the default cash account.
  • Added a "Graph" right mouse menu command to investments and sub-portfolios in the Portfolio Editor.  Renamed existing "Graph" popup menu to "Graph As".  Use the "Graph" menu to graph the item with the current graph type.  Use the "Graph As" popup menu to graph the item using a new graph type.
  • "Hide Sold Investments" command improved.  Can now enter a date range, instead of a single date.  Added a new option to "Turn On Price Retrieve for Non-Sold Investments".
  • Added support to the generic transaction import for "Return of Capital" distributions
  • Added option to exclude weekends from the portfolio value export
  • Added a "Show All" button to the New Portfolio Wizard - Default Cash Account page.  Turning off this option will only list available investments from the current sub-portfolio, instead of all sub-portfolios.
  • New option to cancel opening a portfolio where one or more investments were not opened due to password protection
  • Scottrade interface for advisors supports both 8 and 10 character account numbers, so the same accounts can be used with both the OFX server as well as the Scottrade downloads for advisors
  • Improved Southwest Securities interface for advisors to handle more transaction types
  • Bug fixes:
    • When scrolling through investments with keyboard shortcuts in a graph window, the statusbar was not being immediately updated
    • Right mouse menu graphing from within the Portfolio Editor was not always displaying the proper investment
    • "Delete Price - All Investment" right mouse popup menu commands were not working in the Portfolio Editor and Report windows
    • Yield term calculation could be off by 1 day in some cases where starting year was a leap year and ending year was not a leap year
    • Program could crash when selecting which portfolios to overlay in the graphs
    • "Scale Price" dialog was not honoring international comma/period preferences when entering a scale factor
    • Under Vista, all list views had the sort arrow showing in all columns, instead of just the one column controlling the sort order
    • Reconciling using Scottrade .PS1 files as the statement source was not always using the statement date for calculating share balances
    • Sub-portfolio date range settings for graphing were not always being memorized/recalled properly

December 9, 2006 versions 8.2:

  • Bug fixes:
    • Option to "Apply to All Investments With Matching Symbol" in the Investment Properties - Asset Type and Investment Goal pages was applying changes to all investments, not just those with a matching symbol
    • Graphing an investment from a right mouse menu menu would not always display the proper investment
    • Keyboard shortcuts for adjusting date range and vertical scale of investment based graphs were not always being applied to the correct investment
    • Earliest price and transaction date range choices were not always setting the graph dates properly
    • Program could crash when displaying multiple Technical Analysis graph windows at the same time
    • Current out of pocket cost could be graphed incorrectly when "View / Split Adjusted" was turned off

November 21, 2006 versions 8.1:

  • Added support for retrieving transactions from many more brokerages and mutual fund companies
  • Option to hide totals in footer of reports.  Allows adding benchmarks to a report, without report totals including the benchmarks.
  • Added "Apply To All Investments With Same Symbol" option when setting the Asset Type or Investment Goal of an investment.  Makes it easier to set all securities with the same symbol to the same asset/goal allocation values.
  • Portfolio based graphs are now scrollable with the mouse wheel and same keyboard shortcuts as investment based graphs.  The active sub-portfolio is scrolled.
  • Option to exclude tax free and cash investments from the Distribution Summary report.  See the new "Distribution Summary" tab in the Report Preferences dialog.
  • New Custom report fields:
    • Invested (between) - same as field in Portfolio Performance report
    • Expected dividend yield (ending) - Forward looking dividend yield, based on most recent dividend.  See online help.
  • Improved Buy/Sell/Distribution dialogs when using the "Percentage Load Fees" transaction entry preference
  • Added portfolio filename (*.mm4) to top level Fund Manager window, so it is always visible
  • Quick-zoom on a line in the asset/goal allocation reports now creates a new Portfolio Value report filtered by that line item
  • When an import or retrieve creates a new investment automatically, and the import source does not specify the investment type/asset type/investment goal, the defaults are set based upon other existing investments with a matching symbol
  • The graph windows are not reset to the top of the investment stack when closing an investment
  • DST Fan Mail position import supports importing multiple files at once
  • Bug fixes:
    • Could get false warnings for a "13942" error upon program startup
    • Graph menu commands "Investments / Select..." and "Investments / More..." were not working
    • Quote server override combo box in "Investment Properties... / Internet Retrieve" was not displaying/selecting properly
    • When investment type was an ETF or Future, the ticker symbol lookup in the New Investment dialog was incorrectly searching in the stock area
    • Double clicking an investment in the Portfolio Editor would not always graph the correct investment
    • Pie chart legend scroll arrow would sometimes be displayed when there was nothing to scroll
    • Very small number of owned shares could cause an incorrectly large %Gain-F
    • New portfolio wizard would allow multiple investment property dialogs to be opened at once, prevent wizard from closing properly at completion
    • Right mouse clicking on a note marker would not always bring up the right note

October 24, 2006 versions 8.0:

The change list for versions 8.0 is grouped into the following categories:

General Improvements
Graph Related Improvements
Report Related Improvements
Portfolio Editor Related Improvements
Minor/Other Improvements

General Improvements

  • Reconciliation Wizard. Reconcile sub-portfolio balances against statements from broker or mutual fund company. Statements can be retrieved automatically from a wide variety of brokers and mutual fund companies. Statements can also be read from downloaded files in a variety of formats.
  • Print Preview. Preview the printout of any graph or report prior to printing.
  • "Skins". Easily memorize and recall multiple display themes. Skins store/recall all color, font, and pen sizes, and are available across all portfolios.
  • Data Register improvements:
    • Multiple items can now be selected at once, which is helpful for quickly deleting multiple transactions
    • Increased size of dialog for improved readability
    • Investments listed alphabetically instead of by stack order
    • Portfolio listing indented to show sub-portfolio hierarchy for easier sub-portfolio navigation
  • Improved New Portfolio Setup Wizard. Positions can now be retrieved from your broker or mutual fund company.
  • New investment types:
    • Exchange Traded Fund
    • Treasury Bill
    • Annuity
    • Future
    • Other
  • New quote servers:
  • Sub-portfolios can now be marked as "hidden"
  • Batch Printing. Print specified graphs/reports for any number of clients at once. (Advisor version only)
  • All report column labels can be customized to any desired text. (Advisor version only)
  • Improved client management (Advisor version only)
    • Associate each client with a sub-portfolio
    • Improved contact management: added Tax ID, Date of Birth and Phone/E-Mail/Address for both home and work
  • Increased maximum number of investments that can be open at once to 50,000 (Advisor version only)
  • Added "Southwest Securities" interface for importing positions, transactions, and prices (Advisor version only)
  • Added "DAZL" interface for importing positions, transactions, and prices (Advisor version only)
  • Option to hide "interpolation asterisk" from reports (Advisor version only)

Graph Related Improvements

  • Any number of graph windows can now be open at the same time. Each graph window is independent, so active portfolio, graph type, date range, overlaid items, etc.. can be set separately for each graph window. Graph windows and their settings are memorized as part of portfolio files (*.mm4).
  • Custom legends. Enter any text and choose from a wide variety of fields to insert into each graph's legend. Customize independently for each graph type.
  • Mouse click on any stacked graph segment or pie slice to create a quick-zoom report or open the Data Register detailing that item.
  • New graph types:
    • Pie Charts - Sub-Portfolio
    • Pie Charts - Currency
    • Stacked Value - Sub-Portfolio
    • Stacked Value - Currency
  • Date range and scale are memorized for each sub-portfolio. When setting the date range and scale you can choose to apply to only the active sub-portfolio or to all sub-portfolios.
  • New top level "Portfolio" menu for quickly selecting the active sub-portfolio
  • Improved legends for the pie charts and stack value graphs. Legends are now scrollable when too large to fit on the screen. Increased readability of stacked value legends.
  • Colors for currently selected overlaid portfolios/investments are maintained when changing overlaid items
  • Hovering mouse over stacked graph legend item displays that item's details in the status bar
  • Improved cursor snap operation to be more "smooth", with less flicker

Report Related Improvements

  • Reports can now be sub-totaled by any of the following:
    • <none> (sub-totaling is off)
    • Sub-Portfolio
    • Symbol
    • Asset Type
    • Investment Goal
    • Investment Type
  • Report filters. Filter reports by Investment Type, Asset Allocation, Investment Goal, or Symbol. Only the filtered item will be displayed in the report.
  • Quick zoom. Click on any Sub-Portfolio, Investment Type, Asset Allocation, Investment Goal, or Symbol to create a new report detailing that item.
  • Advanced statistics as custom report fields (Professional and Advisor versions only):
    • Alpha
    • Beta
    • Correlation
    • R-Squared
    • Sharpe Ratio
    • User-definable benchmark investment, comparison period, and "risk-free" rate of return.  See "Options / Report Preferences... / Benchmark".
  • New custom report fields:
    • Change in price (between)
    • Change in value (between)
    • Latest reconciliation date
    • Latest price date
    • Normalized standard deviation of price (between)
    • Normalized standard deviation of price (inception)

Portfolio Editor Related Improvements

  • New list fields:
    • Last Reconciled
    • First Price
    • Last Price
    • First Transaction
    • Last Transaction
    • Last Distribution
    • Last Purchase
    • Last Redemption
    • Acquired - Start
    • Acquired - End
  • Removed requirement of having at least one open investment in order to use the Portfolio Editor

Minor/Other Improvements

  • Improved import speed
  • Added "Only Delete Prices When No Shares Are Owned" option to the "Delete Price Range" commands
  • Preview Transaction Import Dialog shows path and filename of any newly created investments
  • Replaced portfolio filename with sub-portfolio name in pie chart default legend. Legends are now also user-customizable.
  • Default values for handling OFX/QFX files checks first to see if any other application is already associated
  • Option to re-map investment path when opening a portfolio and the investment(s) can't be found
  • Whenever an investment selection is required, they are now listed alphabetically instead of by stack order
  • Increased CUSIP field maximum to 20 characters so ISIN number can also be used in this field
  • New installation program
  • Improved web tutorial
  • Other minor improvements
  • Bug fixes:
    • Program could crash when canceling an internet retrieve
    • Program could crash when copying report text for a multiple date range, single field custom report
    • Resetting colors to their defaults was not working for all color options
    • Investments in a portfolio file (*.mm4) located on a network path were always being saved as an absolute path (instead of possibly relative to the portfolio file).
    • Right mouse menu commands on stacked value graphs to move sections up/down were not always working properly
    • Path to client's associated portfolio file in client list could sometimes be displayed incorrectly

September 9, 2006 versions 7.8:  [Download: Personal, Professional, Advisor]

  • Improvements in Advisor version B/D interfaces: Fiserv ISS, Scottrade, and TD Ameritrade
  • Improvements in retrieving option transactions from OFX servers
  • When prompting for action on default cash account for a newly created sub-portfolio during import, only list each unique investment once
  • Bug fixes:
    • Tax basis, FIFO (ending) and related fields incorrectly include Return of Capital and Account Fees recorded after the ending report date.
    • Schwablink transaction import menu command unavailable
    • Setting vertical scale relative to other investments wasn't working properly for NAV + DIST graph types
    • ROI yields for investments with no owned shares could sometimes be reported incorrectly (should be "N/A")

April 23, 2006 versions 7.7:

  • All internal links updated to new web location (www.FundManagerSoftware.com)
  • New options to control whether yields less than 1 year and greater than 1 year are annualized or not. See "Options / Preferences... / Yields". By default, yields for terms less than 1 year are not annualized, and yields for terms greater than 1 year are average annualized.
  • New options to have Fund Manager be the default application associated with .OFX and .QFX files. See "Options / Preferences... / Other". Makes downloading and importing such files more convenient.
  • When retrieve or import causes a new sub-portfolio to be created, user is given the option to assign a default cash account
  • New Open Financial Exchange "position" import command
  • Added Scottrade import for investment advisors (Advisor version)
  • Improved Broker/Dealer interfaces (Advisor version):
    • Improved Legacy Ameritrade, DST FAN Mail, Fidelity Advisor CHANNEL, Fiserv ISS, SchwabLink, Scottrade, and Legacy TD Waterhouse
    • New "position" import commands to import positions. Useful for reconciliation, or initializing starting data.
    • New price import commands for each interface. Useful for securities not available on quote servers.
    • Transaction imports also import available pricing and security information
  • Improved Open Financial Exchange transaction retrieve/import to also import investment type when creating new investments
  • Added QIF price import command and improved QIF transaction import to import any available prices in QIF
  • Improved price retrieve to eliminate duplicate requests for the same symbol from the same quote server
  • Improved symbol lookup when creating a new investment (search includes investment type)
  • Improved display of online help file, so it can be displayed while still working in Fund Manager
  • Improved error reporting when attempting a retrieve while "working offline"
  • Removed obsolete price import commands
  • Bug fixes:
    • Email alerts using the SMTP sending method could cause Fund Manager to crash
    • Option to disconnect DUN after a retrieve could fail under some older operating systems

February 11, 2006 versions 7.6:

  • New commands to import and export category allocation information
  • Added CUSIP and Tax Free investment properties as available fields in the Portfolio Editor's list view
  • New options for the Hide Sold Investments command
  • Improved QIF import and QIF export
  • Improved importing of Fiserv ISS reinvested distributions (Advisor version)
  • Improved importing of TD Waterhouse files (Advisor version)
  • Removed the Yahoo Transaction retrieve feature.  No longer available...
  • Bug fixes:
    • Investments marked to not retrieve prices would get updated if any other retrieved investment had the same symbol
    • Graph auto-scale not always set properly upon opening of portfolio

November 17, 2005 versions 7.5:

  • Added support for importing from Fiserv ISS (Advisor version)
  • New Custom report fields: "Portfolio hierarchy" and "Portfolio parent"
  • New "Show All" option on the Portfolio Properties dialog for the listing of investments to use as the default cash account.  Turning off this option makes it easier to pick an investment within that portfolio for the default cash account.
  • New option to speed up portfolio based plotting when using exchange rates.  See "Graphs / Options / Display... / Allow Fast Exchange Rate Interpolation for Portfolio Graphs".  Press the "Help..." button for further explanation.
  • Automatic backup now also backs up the portfolio file (*.mm4).
  • Improved error reporting when an investment file fails to open
  • Bug fixes:
    • Return On Investment (ROI) yields for portfolios in the yield report were not following the "Allow Interpolation Prior to First Recorded Data" yield interpolation option.
    • Upon failing to open a portfolio, an error message was not always displayed
    • Report's "Sort" menu item "Investment Stack" did not display a check mark after being selected in some cases
    • When sorting a report by a displayed field, the investment stack was not always updated properly when the "Options / Report Preferences... / General / Update Investment Stack When Sorting Reports" option was on

August 22, 2005 versions 7.4:

  • Improved transaction retrieve:
    • Retrieved transaction are now matched up with investments based on the new CUSIP field.  If a match could not be found based on CUSIP the matching reverts to using the symbol, so existing investments will continue to retrieve without modification.  Using the CUSIP for transaction retrieves will allow you to specify a different symbol for price retrieves, in the cases where the price server uses a different symbol than your broker or mutual fund company.  The CUSIP is also more reliable, as not all retrieved transactions report the symbol, but all transaction do have a CUSIP.
    • Creates additional log files for help in debugging.  See "ofxretr.txt", "xmldump.txt" and "ofxmemtrandump.txt" in the Fund Manager folder.  [more info]
  • Added option to update the investment stack based on the report sorting order. See the new "Update Investment Stack When Sorting Reports" option in the Report Preferences - General Dialog.
  • Added a "All (*.*)" file filter option in all of the Browse... dialogs
  • Changed the behavior of yield interpolation settings for Return On Investment ROI yield calculations.  Renamed the "Allow Interpolation Prior to First Recorded Price" option to "Allow Interpolation Prior to Earliest Recorded Data".  For Fund Performance yields this is still the first recorded price.  For ROI yields this is now the first recorded transaction (not price).
  • All "overlay" style graphs are now inclusive of changes that happen on the starting graph date
  • Bug fixes:
    • The menu command Graphs / Options / Display... was not being displayed in the Personal version
    • Error message displayed when opening an old text portfolio file with missing investments was not displaying properly
    • Was allowing a non-existent folder to be specified when creating new investments
    • The Portfolio Editor divider could be dragged off the left side of the window, so that it couldn't be seen or moved anymore
    • If multiple sub-portfolios had the same account number, retrieved or imported transactions could be placed in the wrong sub-portfolio in some cases
    • The Date Range dialog was not always initialized to the proper values for the selected investment
    • Deleting a price while "View / Exchange Rate Adjusted" was on would leave the data un-exchanged
    • Toggling the "View / Exchange Rate Adjusted" command did not automatically refresh the Data Register
    • The tab order on the New Investment dialog had the portfolio selection control in the wrong order
    • Deleting multiple sub-portfolios at once could leave unreferenced sub-portfolios in the internal database, which could later cause the program to crash
    • Portfolio value and gain graphs could plot incorrectly in rare circumstances when using exchange rate adjusted investments

May 9, 2005 versions 7.3:

  • Improved report sorting.  New top level "Sort" menu on reports allows sorting by any available column, or with the default sorting.  Sort ascending or descending.
  • Added "File / File Operations / Hide Sold Investments..." menu command to easily hide all investments that have been sold.
  • Added custom report fields:
    • Out of pocket basis (between)
    • % Gain (between)
    • %Gain (inception)
  • Updated labels for Out Of Pocket (OOP) related fields so they are all next to each other in the Custom Settings Dialog
  • Added an "Out Of Pocket" online help topic
  • Improved QIF import to auto-detect date format in the QIF file (MM/DD/YY or DD/MM/YY), so the user doesn't have to specify
  • Added option to specify the weekend days.  (For use in locations where the markets are closed on days other than Saturday/Sunday).  See "Options / Preferences... / Other / Weekend Starts On".
  • Bug fixes:
    • Sorting the investment stack by % Gain in the Investment Performance Report did not work
    • The custom report field "ROI yield (inception)" was not calculated properly

March 24, 2005 versions 7.2:

  • Added option to update "Investment Banking Transactions" for the transaction retrieve and the OFX transaction import
  • Changed reports so they use yield interpolation settings rather than always using "step" type interpolation
  • Added new NAME and ITYPE keys to the generic transaction import.  Clarified the online help for this feature.
  • Miscellaneous speed/performance improvements
  • Bug fixes:
    • Incorrect yield values could be reported when opening a portfolio
    • Sorting investments by %Gain and Yield from within a report window did not work correctly
    • Disclaimer in the Portfolio Value report would not be printed in some cases
    • Attempting to open a portfolio with more investments than allowed for that version would cause the program to crash
    • When importing transactions if you used the Back and then Next buttons to re-import the last set of transactions were still shown

January 31, 2005 versions 7.1:

  • New mechanism to allow you to retrieve transactions without storing your password in the portfolio file (*.mm4).  If the transaction retrieve password is blank you will be prompted at the time of retrieve for the password to use for the current retrieve.  The password entered at the time of retrieve is only used for the current retrieve and is not stored in the portfolio file.
  • New option to control action when double clicking on an investment in the Portfolio Editor.  Choose from displaying the Investment Properties, showing the Data Register, or Graphing the investment.  See Options / Preferences... / Other.
  • New option for specifying the initial "Data Type" in the Data Register.  See Options / Preferences... / Other.
  • When retrieving transactions if the Symbol field is empty, comparison is done on the Name field for matching transactions with existing investments
  • Transaction retrieve and OFX import forces any required consistency rounding into the "Price" field (instead of "Value")
  • Bug fixes:
    • Remembers last retrieve date for a top level portfolio that was retrieved hierarchically, even though that portfolio itself was not retrieved
    • "%Gain-V (inception)" field in custom report was always reporting as N.A..  Fixed so start date for this calculation was the end of the transaction inception day.
    • Yields above portfolio based graphs were not refreshed when the active portfolio changed
    • In the Portfolio Properties dialog the "Created" and "Last Saved" dates and times were not displayed properly under Windows 95, 98, and ME
    • "Portfolios Store and Recall Reports" option was not being honored, they were always recalled
    • "Change in price from previous" field in custom report was calculating from day before report start date instead of day before end date
    • Check mark under the Graphs window on the "Investments / Set Active Portfolio" menu was not always on the correct sub-portfolio
    • "% of Portfolio" field in the Portfolio Editor was using each investment's default ending date for calculating the portfolio value.  Led to inconsistent values when investments had varying default ending dates.  Switched to always use the default ending date for the portfolio.

January 1, 2005 versions 7.0:

  • Direct transaction retrieve from your broker or mutual fund company.
    • Eliminates manual data entry of your transactions (buys, sells, distributions, splits)
    • Preview transactions before recording
    • Automatically creates new investments as needed
    • Broker / Fund Company information stored on a per-portfolio basis
    • See "Edit / Internet Retrieve / Transactions..."
    • Support for the following brokers / fund companies:
      • A.G. Edwards
      • Accutrade
      • American Express Brokerage
      • Ameritrade
      • AmeriVest
      • AmSouth Investment Services
      • Ariel Mutual Funds
      • AXA Advisors
      • Banc of America Investment Services
      • BrownCo
      • Charles Schwab
      • E*TRADE
      • Fidelity Investments
      • Fidelity NetBenefits
      • GunnAllen Financial
      • Harrisdirect
      • Hewitt Associates
      • Morgan Keegan
      • myStreetscape
      • Northern Trust - Investments
      • OptionsXpress
      • Penson Financial Services
      • Peremel & Company
      • Pershing IMS
      • Prudential Retirement
      • RBC Dain Rauscher
      • Ryan Beck & Co
      • Scottrade
      • Securities America
      • Smith Barney - Investments
      • Strong
      • T. Rowe Price
      • TD Waterhouse
      • The Investment Center
      • UBS Financial Services
      • Vanguard Group
      • Wall Street Access
  • Portfolio Related Improvements:
    • New "Portfolio Editor" window (see next section for details)
    • New "New Portfolio Setup Wizard" (see below for details)
    • Unlimited number of portfolios can be open at once
    • Portfolios can now be hierarchical
    • Portfolio properties available to each open portfolio:
      • Name, Account #, Default Cash Account, Memo
      • Transaction Retrieve Settings:
        • Enable for retrieve
        • Broker
        • User ID and password
    • Portfolio files (*.mm4) are now saved in a binary format. These new portfolio files cannot be opened in prior versions of Fund Manager.
    • Overlay portfolios as well as investments in the "Portfolio / Investment(s) Overlay" graph. See "Graphs / Options / Overlaid Portfolios...".
  • New "Portfolio Editor" Window:
    • Windows Explorer-like view of portfolios and their investments
    • Left-hand side shows a tree view of all portfolios, and their hierarchy
    • Right-hand side shows a list of all sub-portfolios and investments in the selected portfolio
    • Right-hand side can be customized to display a wide variety of data on each investment and sub-portfolio. See "View / List Columns..."
    • The sub-portfolios and investments can be sorted by any displayed column of data.  Just click on the column's header.  Click the header again to switch between ascending/descending.
    • Makes opening, closing, moving investments much easier
    • Copy/Paste and Drag/Drop to manipulate investments and sub-portfolios
    • See "View / Portfolio Editor..."
  • New "New Portfolio Setup Wizard":
    • Walks you through setting up a new portfolio and the new investments in this portfolio. Makes creating many new investments at once quick and easy. See "File / New Portfolio Wizard...".
    • Use to create either a new top level portfolio, or a sub-portfolio
  • Report Improvements:
    • Reports can now be listed by "Investment", "Symbol", "Investment Type", "Asset Allocation", or "Investment Goal". Previously reports were always listed by "Investment".
    • Reports can optionally be sub-totaled by sub-portfolios
    • Create a report for any open portfolio
    • Improved right mouse popup menus for more operations on selected item
    • Made more commands available from the Reports windows
  • Increased the maximum number of investment files that can be open at one time:
    • Advisor: 5,000
    • Professional: 2,000
    • Personal: 500
  • Transaction Import Additions/Improvements:
    • QIF Transaction Import Improvements:
      • Preview transactions prior to import
      • Optional new "S" field for specifying a particular sub-portfolio. Can create new portfolios automatically.
      • Import results logged to file "ImportLog.txt"
      • Import the investment name and memo in the same case as supplied in QIF file
    • Generic Transaction Import Improvements:
      • Option to create new investments automatically as needed
      • Preview transactions prior to import
      • Optional new "PORT" key for specifying a particular sub-portfolio. Can create new portfolios automatically.
      • Import results logged to file "ImportLog.txt"
    • New "Open Financial Exchange" (OFX/QFX) Import:
      • See the wizard at "File / Import / Transactions / Open Financial Exchange..."
      • Create new portfolios/investments automatically
      • Preview transactions prior to import
      • Import results logged to file "ImportLog.txt"
    • New Fidelity Advisor CHANNEL Import (Advisor):
      • See the wizard at "File / Import / Transactions / Fidelity Advisor CHANNEL ..."
      • Import transactions exported using the Centerpiece export driver
      • Create new portfolios/investments automatically
      • Preview transactions prior to import
      • Import results logged to file "ImportLog.txt"
    • New Ameritrade Import (Advisor):
      • See the wizard at "File / Import / Transactions / Ameritrade ..."
      • Import downloaded t*.dat files
      • Create new portfolios/investments automatically
      • Preview transactions prior to import
      • Import results logged to file "ImportLog.txt"
    • New TD Waterhouse Import (Advisor):
      • Compatible with TD Waterhouse TRN file downloads
      • See the wizard at "File / Import / Transactions / TD Waterhouse ..."
      • Create new portfolios/investments automatically
      • Preview transactions prior to import
      • Import results logged to file "ImportLog.txt"
    • SchwabLink Transaction Import Improvements (Advisor):
      • Import multiple files at once
      • Date filtering
      • Create new portfolios as needed
      • Added support for "Advent" transaction file format
    • DST FAN Mail Transaction Import Improvements (Advisor):
      • Import multiple files at once
      • Date filtering
      • Create new portfolios as needed
  • Added a "Spin-off" transaction
  • Re-worked menus and toolbars to be consistent across Main Graph, Reports, and Portfolio Editor windows. Makes all relevant menu commands available from any of these windows.
  • Added "Retrieve Selected Prices" popup menu commands to be able to update only selected investments with an internet retrieve.  Available when right clicking on an investment in a report or the Main graphs window.  Also available when right mouse clicking on any selection in the Portfolio Editor window.
  • Quote Server Module Improvements:
    • Added new "MSN (Historical)" quote server
    • Added new "Advice For Investors (Canadian Mutuals)" quote server
    • Added new "Canada Stockwatch (3M Historical)" quote server
    • Improved "Yahoo (Historical)" server:
      • Eliminated 200 quote per request limit
      • Added option to control whether retrieved dividends are recorded as reinvested or distributed. (Professional / Advisor)
    • Removed defunct quote servers:
      • Quicken
      • Quicken - Canada (Canadian mutual funds)
      • Yahoo - Korea
    • New module available for Fund Manager 7.x versions only (not compatible with 6.x or earlier)
  • New Moving Average Alerts (Professional / Advisor)
    • Adjustable number of weeks for moving average
    • Alert when crossing above or below specified average
  • New "Tax Free" Investment Property
    • See "Investment Properties... / Other / Tax Free"
    • Exclude from Capital Gain reports using "Options / Report Preferences... / Capital Gains / Exclude Tax Free Investments"
  • Custom Report Improvements:
    • Added a "Category Filter" for filtering the list of available fields
    • Available fields are displayed alphabetically
    • The selected field's detailed description is displayed in the dialog box.
    • Added new fields:
      • Highest High (between)
      • Lowest Low (between)
      • Lots fully specified
      • Default cash account
      • Alert count (active)
      • Alert count (complete)
      • Alert count (expired)
      • Latest purchase date
      • Latest redemption date
      • Latest distribution date
      • Latest transaction date
      • Exchange rate (beginning)
      • Exchange rate (ending)
      • Date acquired, start (ending)
      • Date acquired, end (ending)
      • Quote server
      • Description
      • Account
      • Tax basis, Specific Lot
      • Tax basis unrealized gain, Specific Lot
      • Tax basis per share, Specific Lot
      • Tax basis unrealized gain per share, Specific Lot
      • %Gain-V (between)
      • %Gain-V 3 months (ending)
      • %Gain-V 6 months (ending)
      • %Gain-V 1 year (ending)
      • %Gain-V 3 years (ending)
      • %Gain-V 5 years (ending)
      • %Gain-V 10 years (ending)
      • %Gain-V (inception)
      • Moving average 20 weeks (ending)
      • Moving average 25 weeks (ending)
      • Moving average 30 weeks (ending)
      • Moving average 35 weeks (ending)
      • Moving average 40 weeks (ending)
      • Moving average 45 weeks (ending)
      • Moving average 50 weeks (ending)
  • Mouse wheel support. Same usage as the up/down arrow keys in both the report and main graph windows. In report windows the data lines are scrolled up and down. In the main graph window the investment stack is scrolled, or the topmost overlaid investment is scrolled, depending on the graph type.
  • Added context sensitive popup menus to the portfolio based graphs and the investment overlay graph types
  • Capital gain reporting on short sales improved to be more consistent with reporting from your broker
  • New "Window / Tile Down" menu command
  • Added shortcut keys to scroll through indicators on the Technical Analysis graph. (Professional / Advisor)
    • { and } for the upper indicator
    • [ and ] for the lower indicator
  • Improved the Buy/Sell and Distribution dialogs, so that if 2 of 3 fields between Value, Shares, and Price are filled in, the 3rd field is auto-calculated, without you having to "tab" to that field
  • Improved legend for overlay style graphs to better utilize available space
  • Added a memo when proceeds are transferred from the default cash account due to a new investment file
  • When manually (File / New Investment...) creating new investments the last investment type is used as the default for next time
  • When using the /I /Q command line options the prompt to download any updated retrieve modules is suppressed
  • When creating an "Investment Transactions" report, the option to create the report for the "Entire Portfolio" was made into its own check box, and removed from the "Investment" drop down combo box. This makes it more obvious this choice is available for this report type.
  • Improved autoscale for graphs when a trendline is partially within the date range. Uses max/min of trendline within graph date range, instead of always just using trendline end points.
  • Added option to suppress additional message boxes when opening a portfolio that is not able to find some of its investment files.  Previously you were required to press OK for each missing investment file.
  • Added option to the "Copying newer file" warning dialog to not display again
  • "GPH" yield uses close of date prior to beginning date for the starting value.  This way, gains on the beginning graph date are included in "GPH" yield.
  • Improved error reporting when "File / Send By Email..." isn't provided with a valid email address (Advisor)
  • Internet retrieve log location is based on executable location, rather than installed directory from registry
  • Updated the America Online price import. See "File / Import / Prices / America Online..."
  • Revamped the online help.  Changed format to be HTML based.
  • Utilize Windows XP Visual styles when available
  • Bug Fixes:
    • Holding period for capital gain calculations. Starts counting the day "after" shares acquired, instead of the day they were acquired.  Example: Buy on 7/28/03, sell on 7/28/04 is a one year holding period.
    • When the Investment Transaction report was displayed for the entire portfolio, and the text was copied to the clipboard, the 2nd column could be truncated
    • When copying report's text to the clipboard the investment name column was truncated to 35 characters, sometimes chopping off longer investment names.  Increased this width to 50.
    • When zoomed into a graph with a relatively very wide trendline, the graph could plot the trendline at the wrong value due to internal rounding errors

June 28, 2004 versions 6.8:  [Download: Personal, Professional, Advisor]

  • Removed all email addresses from documentation, replaced with contact form at www.fundmanagersoftware.com/contact.html. Attempting to address spam problems...
  • Bug fixes:
    • When using AVG cost accounting and wash sale rules, the capital gain calculation could add in disallowed wash sale losses at an incorrect time under some circumstances.
    • Custom report field "Average Volume" could be incorrect when report date range was very long.
    • Recalling a memorized report with an ending date of 2/29/xxxx didn't work.
    • Portfolio / Investment(s) Overlay / Value graph used the closing price rather than the transaction price to calculate money invested in the portfolio.

September 21, 2003 versions 6.7:

  • Added option to send Email alerts using SMTP (Options/Alerts.../E-Mail/Configure...)
  • Bug fix:
    • Alerts and Trendlines were not displayed adjusted for exchange rate

August 3, 2003 versions 6.6:

  • Change required for abcbourse quote server update
  • Store/recall constant exchange rate ratios to greater significant digits (12)
  • Bug fix:
    • Currency conversion when no price is recorded for a date, but there is a conversion price recorded.

May 17, 2003 versions 6.5:

  • Improved internet access. More robust, better error reporting. Proxy settings can now be specified manually, or determined from Windows.

February 16, 2003 versions 6.4:

  • Bug Fix:
    • Professional/Advisor only: Wash sale adjustments on AVG capital gain report could report incorrect in some cases

February 11, 2003 versions 6.3:

  • Bug Fixes:
    • Custom report "Gain-Current" field reported wrong for short positions
    • Professional/Advisor only: Wash sale adjustments on specific lot capital gain report could report incorrect in some cases

January 11, 2003 versions 6.2:

  • Improved install program, creates shortcuts more reliably
  • Advisor only: Import transaction and prices from SchwabLink
  • Professional/Advisor only bug fix:
    • Capital gains reports when using wash sale rules and shorts, was reporting incorrectly

December 7, 2002 versions 6.1:

  • Printing transactions from Edit/All Data... includes memo field
  • Improved transaction retrieve from internet to support more formats
  • Bug Fixes
    • Capital Gain - Specific Lots when View/Split Adjusted is off reported incorrect basis
    • Printing to a printer with a name longer than 32 characters
    • Printing custom reports could chop off bottom line(s)

October 19, 2002 versions 6.0:

  • Export capital gain data to tax preparation software, such as TurboTax
  • Internet transaction retrieve. Allows you to retrieve transactions from the internet from many popular brokerage and mutual fund companies.
  • New Y axis scaling options to put all graphs on the same relative scale
  • Marker enhancements:
    • New "Alert" markers
    • New "Un-specified lot" markers. These show lots not yet sold when using the specific lot ID method.
    • New "marker cursor" makes it easier to put the cursor over a marker
    • Adjust existing trendlines by clicking/dragging end points
    • New "delete" options in right mouse button popup menu allows quick removal of unwanted transactions, trendlines, alerts, or notes
    • New edit/delete popup menu commands when cursor is over a portfolio trendline
  • New Custom report fields:
    • % Gain (current)
    • Purchases out of pocket (current)
    • Distributed distributions (current)
    • Average out of pocket purchase price (current)
    • Distributed dist. per share (current)
    • Average volume (between)
    • Shares purchased (between)
    • Shares redeemed (between)
    • Shares reinvested (between)
    • Shares acquired (between)
  • Support for multiple date ranges within a single report
  • New "Investments/Revert Order" command to put investments back in originally opened order
  • Option to exclude the default cash account and/or cash type investments from capital gain reports
  • Imported and retrieved transactions have proceeds transferred to default cash account if one is assigned
  • Price pruning
  • Shortcut added for web symbol lookup on new investment dialog
  • X axis date range restrictions relative to recorded prices is removed
  • Stacked graph types show section value under the mouse in the status bar
  • Re-order investment value stacked graph sections with right mouse menu
  • Removed 0.00% entries from pie chart labels
  • Removed obsolete CompuServe retrieve function
  • Other miscellaneous/minor improvements
  • Bug fixes:
    • "Edit/Copy" for reports included hidden investments
    • Gain graph scale ignored user settings
    • When opening an investment the default settings were not always applied to its scale
    • Alert pager dialing didn't always wait long enough when sharing the modem with an internet connection
    • Portfolios didn't recall stacked graph types other than by investment
    • Quicken transaction import ignored duplicate entries in QIF if skip identical option was on
    • Cursor position reported in status bar when over a log scale was not displayed correctly
    • Portfolio recalled reports didn't honor "start date relative to end" option

Professional Version Only:

  • All Personal 6.0 improvements and features
  • Wash sale support. See "Options/Report Preferences.../Capital Gains/Apply Wash Sale Rules"
  • Trailing stop loss alerts

Advisor Version Only:

  • All Personal and Professional 6.0 improvements and features
  • Client management support. See "Edit/Client List...".
  • "File/Send by Email..." command. Easily send graphs and reports by e-mail to your clients.
  • Copy graphs and reports to the clipboard as resizable images. Useful for publishing graphs/reports in PowerPoint or Word documents.
  • Customizable report disclaimers. See "Options/Report Preferences.../Disclaimer".
  • DST FAN Mail import (transactions, distributions, and prices)

November 11, 2001 versions 5.3:  [Download: Personal, Professional]

  • bug fixes
    • portfolio trendlines - duplicates from opening portfolios
    • Yield menu check mark not always initialized correctly

April 14, 2001 versions 5.2:

  • new compiler/optimizations provide faster execution
  • added last and change to Technical Analysis legend for each field
  • exporting to SuperCharts includes Open
  • added option to use exact min/max for graph autoscale
    • Graphs/Options/Display.../Autoscale Y Axis Using Exact Min/Max
  • other miscellaneous improvements
  • bug fixes
    • long filename not always displayed when opening from command line
    • crash under certain circumstances when calculating report data
    • time could be off by an hour for 1 week after DST

February 19, 2001 versions 5.1:

  • bug fixes

February 4, 2001 versions 5.0:

  • Specific Lot ID Capital Gains
    • choose the shares you want to sell
    • new report: "Capital Gains - Specific Lot"
  • New Reports
    • Asset Allocation
    • Goal Allocation
    • Capital Gains - Specific Lot
  • Trend Lines
    • draw directly on the graphs or enter numerically
    • displays yield while drawing
    • are a new marker type, can turn on/off
    • adjustable colors
  • Internet Retrieve Improvements
    • new investment property: quote server
    • use the global quote server or override with a specific server
    • servers retrieve "Open" price
    • more automated DLL updates when a new module becomes available
    • faster "Cancel" of a retrieve
  • Improved Date Range Selection for Graphs and Reports
    • pre-defined list of common date ranges
  • More/Improved Keyboard Shortcuts for Manipulating Graphs
    • scroll or adjust to common pre-defined date ranges
    • scroll vertical axis
    • see Help/Keyboard... menu command
  • More Automated Import from Quicken and Money
    • new investment creation requires no interaction
  • Generic Price Import Can Create New Investments Automatically
    • bulk new investment creation
  • Improved Portfolio/Investment(s) Overlay Graph
    • "Value" and "Price + Dist." sub-types
    • new "Value" sub-type plots equivalent investment(s) value vs. actual portfolio value
    • portfolio keeps same position in legend
  • Y axis label improvements
    • more logical increments between labels
    • adjustable number of labels
    • independent control of upper/lower graph sections
    • see Graphs/Options/Display... menu command
  • Now Tracks "Open" Price
  • Improved Memorized Reports
    • save as new or overwrite existing
  • New Internet Retrieve Quote Servers
  • Price Scaling Function
    • useful for EURO conversion
    • see File/File Operations
  • Export Daily Portfolio Value To Text File Function
  • Additional Custom Report Fields
    • current out of pocket invested (ending)
    • current out of pocket invested per share (ending)
    • gain (current)
    • OOP gain per share (historical)
    • OOP gain per share (current)
  • Other Miscellaneous Improvements

Professional Version Only:

  • Technical Analysis
    • graph options:
    • Candlesticks
    • 1, 2, or 3 simple moving averages
    • 1, 2, or 3 exponential moving averages
    • Bollinger Bands
    • Accumulation/Distribution
    • Average True Range
    • Chaikin Money Flow
    • Commodity Channel Index
    • MACD
    • Money Flow Index
    • On Balance Volume
    • Relative Strength Index
    • Stochastic Oscillator
    • Williams %R
    • all indicators are fully adjustable as appropriate
  • New Internet Retrieve Quote Server
  • Internet Retrieve Historical Stock Dividends and Splits

May 10, 2000 version 4.7:  [Download: Personal]

  • Capital Gain reports now support short positions
  • Generic transaction and price imports support months by name
  • Other miscellaneous improvements

March 2, 2000 version 4.6:

  • Bug fix: day of week calculation was incorrect after 2/29/2000

February 6, 2000 version 4.5:

  • New historical stock quote server - Dreyfus (Historical)
  • Bug fixes:
    • Totals in Distribution Summary report for Other and RofC columns
    • Wrong date used for Beg NAV in Investment Performance report

January 23, 2000 version 4.4:

  • New key (ED) for generic importing of date in YYYYMMDD format
  • Added menu item and shortcut for new web based tutorial
  • Bug fixes:
    • QIF format for dates past 1/1/2000
    • Uninitialized investment transaction memo when creating new investment
    • Crashing after selecting investments for overlaid graph types
    • New retrieve module (216) fixes retrieving Yahoo quotes with parenthesis in name

December 26, 1999 version 4.3:

  • New internet module (212)
    • Support added for Canada Stockwatch quote server, offering Canadian stocks and mutual fund quotes
    • Fixed Mobilecomm internet paging
    • Fixed request format for historical Yahoo servers (Y2K update)
  • Printer orientation preference memorized from session to session
  • Backup and Restore commands can now span multiple removable disks
  • Other miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes

October 18, 1999 version 4.2:

  • New "Web News..." feature for quick access to news on your investments
  • Added "Cursor Snap" feature
  • Daily Portfolio Price(s) Alert
    • send prices via e-mail or pager at specified time each day
  • Historical or Current cost mode option for cost based graphs
  • "<Entire Portfolio>" option for Investment Transaction report
  • Added optional timed automatic investment save feature
  • Support added for new internet retrieve quote servers
  • Shortcut keys added for date controls
  • Added "File/Hide to Tray" command for keeping FM running, but out of the way
  • Improved status bar
  • Other miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes

June 12, 1999 version 4.1:

  • New quote servers
  • Changed tab order of edit controls in transaction entry dialogs to make recording transactions without rounding errors easier
  • Improved stacked graph legend
  • Bug Fixes

April 10, 1999 version 4.0:

  • Price Alerts
    • set high/low targets
    • notification via e-mail
    • notification via pager (using either modem and/or internet)
    • notification via popup window and/or sound file
  • Internet Price Retrieval Improvements
    • automatic periodic retrieval option for any time interval
    • added command line options to enable unattended updates
    • quote server preference stored in portfolios
    • added support for proxy authorization (username/password)
    • added option to disconnect DUN after retrieval
  • New Graph Types
    • Portfolio/Investment(s) Overlay
    • Portfolio Gain
    • Investment Gain
    • Stacked Portfolio Value
      • By Investment
      • By Asset Type
      • By Investment Goal
      • By Symbol
      • Investment Type
    • Investment type allocation pie chart
  • Improved Reports
    • adjustable column widths
    • adjustable colors
    • optional alternate row highlight
    • optional hot mouse tracking
    • data register zoom by clicking on report line
    • added popup menus for convenience
    • improved scroll bars
    • more printing preferences
    • added 16 new optional custom report fields
    • added option for relative start date on memorized reports
  • Additional Investment Types Added
    • Bond
    • Option
    • Cash
    • Index
    • Exchange Rate
  • New Investment Properties
    • control which style to enter transactions (commission, no fee, %load)
    • assign percentages of asset type and investment goal categories
    • hidden
    • internet retrieval updates price
    • invert price when updating
    • statistics
  • Memo field added for transactions
  • Additional Distribution Types Added
    • Return of Capital
    • Other
  • New customizable toolbar with optional display styles
  • Improved Data Register (Edit/All Data...)
    • adjustable column widths
    • adjustable column order
    • right aligned numbers
    • sort data by any column
    • state icons for improved visualization
    • right mouse popup menu
  • More Global Preferences
    • number of significant digits to display
    • more control of when/where to autobackup
    • open last portfolio at startup
    • control tab order in multiple price update dialog
    • user definable number of most recent portfolios under "File" menu
    • user definable number of investments listed under "Investments" menu
    • user definable number of memorized reports listed under "Reports" menu
    • adjustable background color of main graphs window
    • more control over graph colors
  • Open multiple investments at once with File/Open Investment(s)...
  • Added File/Save Investment As... command
  • Added File/Page Setup... command for greater control of printing
  • "Live default price" feature in Buy/Sell/Distribution dialogs
  • Portfolio Improvements
    • path of investments in portfolio stored relative to portfolio file
    • store and recall reports
    • store and recall window positions/sizes
  • Improved generic transaction import by adding "SYMB" key
  • Quicken's QIF Transaction Import/Export Improvements
    • added export capability
    • imports from multiple QIF files and multiple securities in single import
    • imports into multiple investments and creates new investments as needed
    • date range filter
    • option to prevent duplicate transactions on import
  • Export prices to SuperCharts format
  • New date entry controls
  • Improved calculator accessibility
  • Investment Overlay Graph Type Improvements
    • scroll top overlaid investment with keyboard shortcut
    • investment name under cursor displayed in status bar
  • Support for tracking distributions in investments you don't own any shares in
  • Added more asset type and investment goal categories (25)
  • Added change from previous day to graph legends
  • Open or close investments from within the "Order..." dialog

September 24, 1998 version 3.4:  [Download: Personal]

  • Bug fix

8/29/98 version 3.3 for Windows 95/98/NT:

4/5/98 versions 10.2 for Windows and 3.2 for Win95:

3/22/98 versions 10.2 for Windows and 3.2 for Win95:

3/8/98 versions 10.2 for Windows and 3.2 for Win95:

  • Updated CNN, ASX, and CheckFree quote servers
  • Added support for 2 new quote servers:
  • Moved internet retrieve functionality into new FMINTENG.DLL
  • Integrated ability to download updated FMINTENG.DLL as available
  • Documentation reflects new Web address: www.fundmanagersoftware.com
  • Documented online registration capability
  • Documentation reflects new support e-mail: not shown here
  • Documentation reflects new registration e-mail: not shown here
  • Help menu shortcuts to FM related web pages
  • Added keyboard accelerator for importing from CompuServe
  • Modified multiple price dialog to tab across instead of down
  • Bug fixes and other minor improvements

11/29/97 versions 10.1 for Windows and 3.1 for Win95:

  • Moved non-winsock related functions into new fmsprt.dll

11/28/97 versions 10.0 for Windows and 3.0 for Win95:

  • Copy report text to clipboard
  • Memorized reports
  • Added support for 4 more Internet quote servers
  • Multiple currency support
    • up to 8 different currencies supported
    • adjustable symbols
    • view data exchange rate adjusted on/off
    • flexible exchange rate options
  • Date format option (MM/DD/YY or DD/MM/YY)
  • Value format option (1,000.00 or 1.000,00)
  • Default cash account and automatic transfer of funds option
  • Capital gains reports separate short/long term gains
    • long term range user adjustable
  • New "Investment Goal" category for investments
  • New graph types
    • Pie Chart - Investment Goal
    • Pie Chart - Symbol
  • CompuServe retrieve from GQUOTES (global quotes)
  • Automatic backup feature
  • Addition of more keyboard shortcuts
    • scrolling dates
    • zoom/unzoom
    • undo mouse zoom
  • Popup menu on graphs for investment specific actions
  • Addition of note and split markers
  • Marker data displayed in status bar when cursor passes over
  • Uninstall program added
  • Generic transaction import
  • Maximum size of ticker symbol increased to 49 characters
  • Instructions/support for importing from www.fundlib.com
  • User adjustable default yield terms
  • Portfolios store more user preferences
  • Generic price import improvements
    • remembers last 6 format strings
    • support for tabs and comments
  • Option to view data split adjusted (on/off)
  • Check status of Internet quote servers feature
  • Addition of more custom report fields
  • Improved color selection
  • Export prices to a MetaStock formatted text file
  • More investment sorting capabilities
  • Other minor improvements

5/3/97 versions 9.4 for Windows and 2.4 for Win95:

  • Updated PC Quote internet retrieve for changed reply format

3/24/97 versions 9.3 for Windows and 2.3 for Win95:

  • Added support for QuickStock
  • Internet retrieve more robust

2/17/97 versions 9.2 for Windows and 2.2 for Win95:

  • Edit/Update Prices/Retrieve - Internet retrieves and updates your investment prices via the Internet in a single step (added to toolbar also)
  • Options/Internet Settings . . . allows specification of preferences for the internet retrieval
  • Edit/Update Prices/Export - CSV . . . command to export all prices to a comma separated text file (Quicken compatible)
  • Edit/Delete Price commands to delete prices for a specified date range
  • Interpolation range options added (linear/step interpolation and whether to interpolate prior to inception)
  • Added instructions in the online help for importing prices from the Microsoft Network
  • Winsock functions moved to newly included fmintrtv.dll
  • Added %Gain-V to Portfolio Performance report
  • Terse option for Edit/All Data register in Windows version
  • "Notes" edit box stops accepting input when 255 character storage limit reached
  • Generic import supports fractionally formated prices

10/23/96 versions 9.1 for Windows and 2.1 for Win95:

  • Bug fixes
    • CIS retrieve more robust
    • Report printing
    • NAV+DIST overlay line colors
  • Other minor improvements

10/2/96 versions 9.0 for Windows and 2.0 for Win95:

  • New Report type:
    • Custom (over 100 fields for user to choose from)
  • New Graph types:
    • Asset Allocation - Pie
    • Volume/High/Low
  • Automatic price retrieval/updates from CompuServe
  • Toolbars
  • Log scale graphing option
  • Investment data format changed:
    • All investment transaction data independent of price data
    • Tracks volume, high, and low (not required)
    • Tracks asset type
    • Distributions can be recorded when 0 shares owned
    • Backward compatible
  • Maximum open investment limit increased to 500 (Win95 only)
  • User definable maximum number of pie slices
  • Increased number of unique overlay line colors to 20
  • Added more keyboard shortcuts for date and price data entry
  • Autosave portfolio on exit option
  • Portfolios remember additional information
    • Custom report settings
    • Max pie slices, log scale, and font style (bold, italic)
    • Portfolio autosave setting
  • Black and white printing improved
    • Pie charts use hatch marks instead of greyscale
    • Overlayed lines printed with different line styles (dashed...)
  • Notes added to 'Investment Transactions' report
  • 'Distribution Summary' report now value based
  • Nine price update dialog scrollable
  • Mouse zooms improved
  • Internet price importing options and instructions in online help
  • Bug fixes and other minor improvements
  • Discontinued historical price service
  • Visa and Mastercard payment option added

5/24/96 versions 8.6 for Windows and 1.3 for Win95:

  • Added support for AOL's second new price portfolio format

5/12/96 versions 8.5 for Windows and 1.2 for Win95:

  • Added support for AOL's new price portfolio format
  • Disable/enable interpolation range option added

12/22/95 versions 8.4 for Windows and 1.1 for Win95:

  • Added equivalent functions to 8.4 version previously in only 1.0 for Win95 version:
    • Added 'Portfolio Value - Cost' overlay graph type
    • Improved drawing speed on several graph types
    • Created a new "Reports" main menu item
    • Yield reports utilize interpolation range
    • Reports created "maximized" if Main is currently maximized
    • Bug fix: cost-value graph with very small owned shares
    • Bug fix: deleting split didn't auto update existing reports
  • Pie chart values displayed in status bar
  • Improved default date processing for reports
  • Default date for data entry uses most recent date entered
  • Compuserve price import supports symbols with spaces
  • Grid Both/Neither menu commands
  • Bug fix: printing bug in 1.0 Win95 version

11/10/95 version 1.0 for Win95 (32 bit):

  • Ported to a 32 bit version for Windows 95
  • Use of long filenames, multitasking, and other benefits of Win95
  • Added 'Portfolio Value - Cost' overlay graph type
  • Improved drawing speed on several graph types
  • Created a new "Reports" main menu item
  • Yield reports utilize interpolation range
  • Reports created "maximized" if Main is currently maximized
  • Bug fix: cost-value graph with very small owned shares
  • Bug fix: deleting split didn't auto update existing reports

9/25/95 version 8.3 (16 bit):

  • Bug fix

9/24/95 version 8.2 (16 bit):

  • Bug fixes

8/28/95 version 8.1 (16 bit):

  • Bug fix in Portfolio Performance report

8/20/95 version 8.0 (16 bit):

  • New Report types
    • Investment performance
    • ROI yield
    • Fund Performance yield
    • Capital Gains - FIFO
    • Capital Gains - AVG
  • New Graph types
    • Cost - Value
    • Cost - Price
  • Investment data format changed
    • Faster performance
    • More effecient data storage
    • Backward compatible
  • Account Fee transaction type added
  • Data backup/restore
  • Quick Zoom with mouse
  • Quick UnZoom with keyboard shortcuts
  • Fund sorting by alphabet, value, yield, gain...
  • Comma and cents formatting options for reports
  • Color printing support for reports
  • Improved password protection
  • Starts in last state (Maximized or Restored)
  • Ending value added to graph legend
  • Expanded/improved generic import
  • Multiple investments allowed in importing CIS - historical
  • Bug fixes and other minor improvements
  • Historical prices service expanded

3/4/95 version 7.2 (16 bit):

  • Maximum investments in a portfolio increased to 100
  • Color printing
  • Bug fixes

1/22/95 version 7.1 (16 bit):

  • New reports use last specified font as default
  • Bug fix in 'portfolio value - pie' graph

1/17/95 version 7.0 (16 bit):

  • New Report types
    • Distribution summary
  • New Graph types
    • Portfolio value - pie
    • Bar chart of the yields
  • Created 4 distribution types
    • Dividends
    • ST Cap Gains
    • LT Cap Gains
    • Interest Income
  • Status bar with help and locator
  • Splits are a memorized transaction
  • Reinvestment of stock dividends
  • Investment notes
  • Investment data format changed
    • Binary file
    • Only one file per investment
    • Faster performance
    • More effecient data storage
    • Backward compatible
  • Export investment data to ascii files
  • Import prices from any generic text file
  • Import prices from Quicken
  • Import transactions from Quicken
  • Vertical scale of graphs user definable
  • Independent horizontal and vertical grid lines
  • Double right click on any marker to edit transaction
  • Password protection
  • Bug fixes and other minor improvements
  • Historical prices service offered

9/17/94:

  • minor bug fixes, still called version 6.2

8/7/94:

  • minor bug fixes, still called version 6.2

6/29/94 version 6.2 (16 bit):

  • Bug fix - Fund Overlay - share price graph type

6/12/94 version 6.1 (16 bit):

  • Multiple Document Interface (MDI)
  • Reports added
    • Portfolio Value
    • Portfolio Performance
    • Investment Transactions
  • New Graph types
    • Overlay normalized NAV
    • Overlay normalized NAV+DIST
  • Improved on-line help
  • Split transaction added
  • Common open/save dialogs
  • Import historical prices from CompuServe
  • Open portfolio name in title bar
  • Most recent portfolio list
  • Calculator
  • Browse... files to import
  • Remember window size/position
  • Remember last open/save directory
  • Bug fixes

3/9/94 version 6.0a (16 bit):

  • Bug fix - inactive Print button on cost basis dialog
  • Bug fix - bad error message on first investment

3/3/94 version 6.0 (16 bit):

  • 3 investment categories
    • No Load Mutual Fund
    • Loaded Mutual Fund
    • Stock or Bond
  • All transactions modify memory, added File/Save Data
  • New, Edit, Delete options added to Data dialog box
  • Fund rearranging capabilities enhanced
  • Printing of data in Data dialog box
  • Interpolation range made a user-definable variable
  • Portfolio Value graph dates are adjustable
  • Portfolio Return On Investment calculated
  • Percent gain on investment calculations
  • Percent gain on fund calculations
  • Accepts fractional format of prices
  • Import from Dow Jones
  • Import from Fund Manager
  • Menu commands rearranged and renamed to be more logical
  • Password registration
  • Graph date range changing made simpler
  • Bug fix - markers off graph
  • Bug fix - case sensitivity with importing prices

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