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qcor - mnk merger
I have account sync with TD Ameritrade. I have 4 separate posts to my transaction list that seem to double the amount of cash received. How do i handle this transaction. attached are the specific transactions. Which set of transactions can i delete to get ...
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5 Reasons To Do An Investment Club Audit
Don't forget!A Next weekend is Audit Party weekend.A It's a great time to schedule your investment club's Audit.A If you don't know how to do one,A we're offering a webinar on Saturday, January 24 at 1PM ET that will show you how: Sign Up Now ...
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Portfolio Analysis
Does anyone have a recommendation for a website or product that our club can use to analyze our portfolio other than Toolkit?
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Stock Buying Proposal Guidelines
Our club is preparing some standardized stock buying proposal guidelines, and I'd like to get some feedback from any other clubs who have already done this, or from those who have suggestions as to what to include in such guidelines. Our objective is to provide ...
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Transferring club assets within the club
How do I transfer assets from one club member to another? I understand that at the end of the year there will be tax implications because the percentage of ownership will change for the parties involved. Will the transaction itself be a taxable event also? ...
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Walgreens Boots Merger
I'm having a little trouble with the Walgreens/Bootes Alliance merger transactions. When checking our December E*trade statement against bivio, I found that the share balance did not match. We had 217.94777 Walgreens shares, but our 12/31/14 E*Trade statement shows only 217 of Walgreens Boots Alliance. ...
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BuyandHold transfer to Folio Investing
Just got an email from our broker, BuyandHold, that they are closing up shop and will be transferring all of their client accounts to Folio Investing as of February 13, 2015. Apparently no action is required to accomplish this on the brokerage end (unless we ...
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Better Investing
Thank you for your responses. Other than the magazine, are there advantages that our club would miss out on if we dropped BI? On Wednesday 14/01/2015 at 8:10 am, Herb lemcool wrote: You can use Bivio with out being a Better Investing member Sent from ...
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Better Investing
Does a club have to have a membership in Better Investing in order to subscribe to Bivio? Our club has had subscriptions to both for years but we find that Bivio provides most of the information and support we need. Can we have Bivio without ...
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Partnership Taxation Capital base question?
I have simple and maybe silly question about partnership taxation. example : partners A and B put together $6000 and $4000 at the start of year 2014 in Fidelity brokerage. brought some stocks for all of $10000. during the year..(assume no dividends received and none ...
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Going long on WTI
We had a member of PIG (Pennsylvania Investment Group) mention that we should start building a position in crude oil. First, is USO an approved ETF with Bivio? We do not want any tax headaches. Second, are we just better off with E&P companies such ...
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Ever Heard of the "Flip Flop" Or the "Panama Scoot"
You know all those companies that move offshore and cause you to pay capital gains earlier than you wanted to while they save on taxes?A Here's an interesting story about the guy who dreamed up corporate tax inversions, the process that lets them do that. ...
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Brokerage Default Cost Basis Methods
My Brokerage firm (Fidelity) makes a distinction between cost basis vs default disposal method. For both stocks/etf and mutual funds they list FIFO as the default disposal method which is the same terminology Bivio uses for Default Cost Basis Method in the Tax Preparation webinar. ...
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ETF's
Our club has discussed buying ETF's. I thought there had been prior discussion on this subject, however I'm not able to locate it. Am interested in the pro and cons and any effect on the treasurer. Thanks
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NON-QUALIFIED DIVIDENDS
In reviewing my Fidelity account details for dividend distributions I found 2 that were classified as Non-Qualified. Since they are very trivial amounts the most expeditious thing to do is to edit the Bivio entries to mark them as non-qualified. Perhaps I'm missing something but ...
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