Assets

Overview

The assets are the investments you own, such as shares in a particular company, a fund such as an ETF, precious metals such as gold and silver, or a buy to let property. It is recommended to use the official short name for stocks (such as “AMZN” for shares in Amazon, or “VWRD” to represent the corresponding ETF). You can create your own name for investments which are not traded on a stock market. For example you can create an investment named “GOLD” that represents physical gold you have purchased with a company which sells precious metals. If you own two buy to let properties, you could decide to names these “BTL1” and “BTL2”. Also you must decide what units you use the define quantities. For example you could decide that 1 unit of gold represents either 1 gram, or 1 ounce, and you can use decimal numbers when you own fractions of units of a particular asset (such as fractional shares).

Example

Here is how the demo assets are defined in the example files.

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| ID   | Description                                                  | Category | SubCat   | Currency | Hidden |
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| VWRD | Vanguard FTSE All-World Global Stocks ETF (USD Distributing) | Stocks   | Growth   | false    | false  |
| VEVE | Vanguard FTSE Developed World Stocks ETF (GBP Distributing)  | Stocks   | Growth   | false    | false  |
| VHYL | Vanguard FTSE All-World High-Dividend ETF (GBP Distributing) | Stocks   | Income   | false    | false  |
| GOLD | Physical Gold in the Vault (one unit is one gram of gold)    | Metals   | Gold     | false    | false  |
| PHGP | WisdomTree Physical Gold ETF                                 | Metals   | Gold     | false    | false  |
| BTC  | Bitcoin                                                      | Cryptos  | Bitcoin  | false    | false  |
| ETH  | Etherium                                                     | Cryptos  | Etherium | false    | false  |
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Identifiers

Each asset must be given a short identifier, as these identifiers will be used to refer to these assets in other data files. In the example below, each asset is identified using a short three to four letter name such as VWRD. You can put more details about what these assets are in the description so you can remember what they represent.

Categories

Each asset belongs to a main category (also known as top-level category) and sub-category. The top-level category should be used to define the type of asset such as stocks, bonds, precious metals, property. The sub-category should be used to be more specific, for example gold vs silver (in precious metals), or income vs growth (for stocks).