Fund Manager will provide you with a wide variety of both graphical and numerical information to help you monitor your investments.  The program can display many different types of graphs and reports over any time period specified.  The 'Share price plus accumulated distributions' graph types are especially useful to visually see the true performance of your investments, since these graphs take into account the lowering of share price when distributions are paid.  Fund Manager can also overlay markers on the graphs showing when you invested and received distributions.  These markers are useful to help you see at what relative price you made your investments.  One quick way to modify any previously entered transaction is to right click on the associated marker and choose "Edit Marker" from the popup menu.

Fund Manager will calculate and display Return On Investment, Fund Performance with Distributed Distributions, and Fund Performance with Re-invested Distributions for each investment or for your entire portfolio, over any specified period of time.  All reported yields are average annualized.  The two 'Fund Performance' yields show how well the mutual fund performed, independent of when you invested.  The 'Return On Investment' (ROI) yield shows how well your investments performed, depending upon when you invested.  ROI yield gives you information for your specific investment, and lets you see numerically how well you timed the market, by seeing whether or not you outperformed the fund yields.

Fund Manager also provides a user-friendly interface to allow the user to update the information for each investment.  Fund Manager requires that the user enter investments, sales, dividends, capital gains, and share price updates.  Volume, high, and low data is also optionally tracked.  Fund Manager will report numerical yields when it has enough share price information to report an accurate value.  The desired degree of accuracy may be adjusted with the interpolation range.  The more often share prices are updated, the more often accurate yields will be reported.  If a numerical yield is reported to be "N.A." this means that there is not sufficient information for this yield to be calculated.  See Yield Calculations for more information on how Fund Manager calculates yields.

Fund Manager will calculate % gain or loss for your investments, %gain or loss of the investment value, or the % gain or loss for your fund's NAV.  It will also calculate the % gain for your entire portfolio.  See View Yields or report types.

Fund Manager makes tax time a breeze.  The Capital Gain - FIFO and Capital Gain - AVG reports have the same format and information required on the IRS Schedule D.

Fund Manager also allows the user to set up different portfolios to monitor.  For example, you may have one portfolio named 'stocks', another named 'mutuals', and one called 'all'.  Within Fund Manager (or from the command line) you can either open individual investments one at a time or open a portfolio.  Portfolios allow the user to save a user-defined work-space.  Upon opening a portfolio you will automatically have all the investments opened and all your desired options set, just like they were when you last saved that portfolio.  See How to Set Up a Portfolio for more information on portfolios.

Fund Manager can optionally import prices from a wide variety of sources.  This makes updating all of your investment prices painless and is one of the most popular features of Fund Manager.  Fund Manager can also automatically retrieve and update prices from CompuServe or the Internet.  Fund Manager can also import transaction data from Quicken or Microsoft Money.

Fund Manager can display 1, 4, or 9 investments simultaneously, side by side, to allow the user to easily compare performance between investments.

Fund Manager supports tracking investments in multiple currencies.

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