merge between two funds

[francois PEGORY]

recently, one fund was merge into another fund.

how to implement it in beancount knowing that i want to keep the price and the time when it was bought ???

one easy solution is to sell the old fund and to buy the new one but it is not the thing i want.

regards

[Justus Pendleton]

Actually, from beancount's perspective, selling the old fund and buying the new one is what you want to do, I think.

The trick is that you need to specify the cost basis and the acquisition date on the new fund so that there aren't any capital gains. The way you do that is with the {...} syntax.

2021-09-16 "Merge to new fund"

    Assets:Brokerage -100 OLD_FUND {11.00 USD, 2015-05-12}

    Assets:Brokerage 200 NEW_FUND {5.50 USD, 2015-05-12}

Your broker should able to tell you what the cost basis in the fund is. Give that a try and if you run into problems post here again about so people can help you out.

Cheers,

Justus