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A quick update to our Community of Disgruntled Users:  I have been in touch with Financial Times's Customer Service team.  I have suggested to them that, with relatively little work on their side, they can upgrade their current portfolio manager to emulate all of the functions that we've come to know and love in the dearly Departed MSN Portfolio Manager.  FT has offered to call me to discuss my ideas in real time, and I'm hoping to schedule this call for some time this week.  I'll keep you posted on developments.

You're the hero, Ibiwisi!

I'll try and drop them a line, too, to support what you said.

Member of CDU

Sounds like progress is being made. Thanka for the info.

I'm still here and appreciate your effort.  Just started entering years of history into FT.  Really liking the app, but what a pain to start all over again.  Crazy that MS put us through this - I guess they weren't able to monetize their site.  I still get the error message with a big "Whoops!".

Also have issues with reinvested dividends, where for a couple of years they were reinvested, and later stopped the reinvestment and opted for cash.  Not sure how I'll handle it, but definitely won't be entering the re investments manually.

After using MSN Portfolio for 15 years, I discovered on Dec 8 that it was ending, and the arbitrary cut off of Dec 22 was pretty offensive.  That made an end of year report impossible.

The Portfolio was unavailable for 8 days, preventing many from making the ‘migration’.  Any who did not migrate before Dec 22 now cannot migrate, the data is gone.

I found that all my data did migrate on Dec 11, the day before I left the country for a while.  However, the Watchlist is not trustworthy, and is weirdly formatted.  Each Portfolio has to be viewed separately.  The MSN Watchlist seems to be the invention of some genius engineer who has no portfolio, does not know what is needed.

I entered the current balances to create a new Portfolio on Financial Times.  (Maybe you could re-enter the FT email address using ‘at’ instead of @ sign)?

Entering all the past history of reinvested dividends will not work for me.  The options to enter them as ‘Buy’ with zero price, or ‘Buy’ with price on the past date, either way will not calculate a correct period to date return.  Reinvestment of dividends includes a return in the calculation, while Buy does not.  Those reinvested dividends do not affect my tax calculations, I get that information from the 1099’s provided by the fund companies.

On the FT arrangement, all Portfolios can be seen using the Dashboard, with total value at the top.  But, Portfolios with more than 1 holding will not show the separate holdings.  That Portfolio must be opened and shown separately, still no way to print.

At 9am Central Time, the FT Portfolio shows dollar values.  To see the current share price, number of shares, and value of the separate holding, the Portfolio must be opened.

I want to see all holdings in one screen, a screen that can be printed for file.  Guess I was spoiled the past 15 years, got just what I wanted every month.

Now, January 1 will be a long day of manually making a report for my own purposes.

For all of you in the same boat, Happy New Year!!