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First when logging in, and now in hardcopy they're mailing.

What can you tell me about this transition to their new investment platform? They say it's going to happen automatically anyway in 2022, maybe earlier. Should I care about this? I don't do any purchasing or selling anymore; my investments ride in my fairly conservative allocation, and we live on pensions and SS. So the platform, I would guess, doesn't really matter much in my case.

What's your take? Have you done this?
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They are not nagging us. We have a mix of old / new style accounts. We don't notice any difference. Others have noted that one cannot have dividends in one fund automatically re-invested in a different fund, but they can be sent to the cash sweep (money market). We have dividends sent directly to our checking account because we do not want to add anymore to money at Vanguard.
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Vanguard wants to retire its mutual fund only platform and move everybody to the brokerage platform.

Its is cheaper to run and maintain 1 system rather than 2. It is a much contested topic here but the writing is on the wall. Having been in operations I totally understand why Vanguard us doing this.
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I did this some time ago and it was not a big deal.
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Gatto Bialetti wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 7:42 pm First when logging in, and now in hardcopy they're mailing.

What can you tell me about this transition to their new investment platform? They say it's going to happen automatically anyway in 2022, maybe earlier. Should I care about this? I don't do any purchasing or selling anymore; my investments ride in my fairly conservative allocation, and we live on pensions and SS. So the platform, I would guess, doesn't really matter much in my case.

What's your take? Have you done this?
Yes, I have done this.

I had to when I wanted to consolidate some individual stocks and non-Vanguard mutual funds into a Vanguard Brokerage Account. The only limitation I'm aware of is that on the mutual fund platform, you could invest dividend and capital gain distributions from one mutual fund into a different mutual fund. On the brokerage platform, you can only re-invest those into the same mutual fund, or send them to the sweep (federal money market) account.

i can understand the attractiveness of that feature, but it's not one that I ever planned to make use of.
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I made the transition for my 3 accounts (taxable, Trad IRA, Roth IRA) and I'm happy I did. There are some features that only exist in the mutual fund platform but I never made use of them, so no loss from my perspective. And I was already used to having a brokerage account and settlement fund, so no learning curve for that.

We haven't bothered to transition my wife's accounts.

I'm not concerned about what might happen in 2022. I think mutual fund accounts will continue to exist for many years to come, but using the website (or getting customer service) for them will become slower and/or buggy as Vanguard seems to be indicating their IT investments will be prioritized on the brokerage platform.

Suggest you read Vanguard's document describing what the transition is like so you get some idea of what you're in for.
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If I am going to do it in 2021 or by 2022, should I consider going ahead and doing it this month anyway? My only concern might be the year-end reporting and what it is going to look like. I understand there will no longer be a year-end all inclusive year-to-date annual report, but rather four separate and not cumulative quarterly reports which will have to be retained for each year instead of one annual report to be retained.

I personally have a traditional IRA account, a Roth IRA account, and a joint taxable investment account with my spouse. My spouse has a traditional IRA account as well. In these accounts we invest in only three Vanguard mutual funds; Total Stock Market Index (VTSAX), Intermediate-Term Bond Index (VBILX), and Real Estate Index (VGSLX) if these matter in your comments. We reinvest any dividends in all the accounts and do not depend on those dividends to supplement our pension and Social Security income.
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Gatto Bialetti wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 7:42 pm What's your take? Have you done this?
I'm ignoring it and will stay on the old platform as long as possible. Much easier and faster to do a Backdoor Roth on the old platform.
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I transitioned awhile back and there was no issues. If I had to do it again I would transition early in the year before distribution of dividends and capital gains - I did it mid year and ended up with 2 1099's for the year, one for each platform.

Edit - The only thing I notice is ths tax forms appear mid-Feb instead of late Jan....
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climber2020 wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:14 pmI'm ignoring it and will stay on the old platform as long as possible. Much easier and faster to do a Backdoor Roth on the old platform.
We have our IRAs on the new platform. Roth conversions are trivial, so I am not sure how they could be easier and faster on the old platform.
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Monster99 wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:38 pm I transitioned awhile back and there was no issues. If I had to do it again I would transition early in the year before distribution of dividends and capital gains - I did it mid year and ended up with 2 1099's for the year, one for each platform.

Edit - The only thing I notice is ths tax forms appear mid-Feb instead of late Jan....
Or perhaps do a transition AFTER distributions in 2020, but before 2021 starts.
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Livesoft - The late December transition is a question I have and look forward to comments.
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I opened my account at vanguard a few months before the new platform was available. I transitioned when it was available. I was only on the old platform for a few months so I can't compare to that, but the newer platform works well for me. The only problem I ran into was that the initial tax forms vanguard sent me did not have income from the old platform accounts - I had to request them... then check for accuracy... then wait while they fixed the errors. That was over 5 years ago though.
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livesoft wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:41 pm
climber2020 wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:14 pmI'm ignoring it and will stay on the old platform as long as possible. Much easier and faster to do a Backdoor Roth on the old platform.
We have our IRAs on the new platform. Roth conversions are trivial, so I am not sure how they could be easier and faster on the old platform.
There are several extra steps with the brokerage account and it takes longer.

I have the old version, and my spouse has the new version. I do both Backdoor Roths each year, and it's much faster with mine. Eventually if I'm forced to convert it won't be a big deal, but given the choice I'm going to stay with what I have until it's no longer an option.
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I would go ahead and make the transition because:
— The new platform is fine, nothing to be afraid of.
— It's going to happen anyway sooner or later, so get it done now.
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climber2020 wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:14 pm
Gatto Bialetti wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 7:42 pm What's your take? Have you done this?
I'm ignoring it and will stay on the old platform as long as possible. Much easier and faster to do a Backdoor Roth on the old platform.
Exactly. My wife's account was transitioned to the new format, mine is the old. For me a backdoor Roth is a couple clicks, and fast. For her it's a ridiculous jumping through multiple hoops and several days of pointless waiting.
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Does anyone know what year VG' MF/ETF patent runs out - maybe 2023? The push to brokerage accounts and ETFs seem to have unspoken agenda.
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I made the transition this summer for three accounts. Went smoothly, no problems.
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tomd37 wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:08 pm If I am going to do it in 2021 or by 2022, should I consider going ahead and doing it this month anyway? My only concern might be the year-end reporting and what it is going to look like.


I would assume that their customer service department will be very busy in December and January with people doing things before year end and right after year end. I would wait until at least late January so that they may be less busy if you do need to call them for some reason.
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I transitioned as soon as I could. After transitioning, our account total was cut in half, as we have investments that require a brokerage account. IIRC, the previous brokerage account was via Pershing.

Never looked back, great change for us. Fewer accounts to manage was a big plus.

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They've stopped nagging me for now, but my question is why are there some features that still only exist on the older platform after all this time? Fixing that would silence most of the objections.

At Fidelity I have a brokerage account and admittedly that platform can't seem to do what Vanguard's mutual fund platform can either, although from what I understand it comes closer. But that doesn't mean Fidelity has the best possible platform and that Vanguard couldn't improve on it.
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Watty wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 7:05 am
tomd37 wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:08 pm If I am going to do it in 2021 or by 2022, should I consider going ahead and doing it this month anyway? My only concern might be the year-end reporting and what it is going to look like.


I would assume that their customer service department will be very busy in December and January with people doing things before year end and right after year end. I would wait until at least late January so that they may be less busy if you do need to call them for some reason.
if it is a taxable account, I'd be inclined to do it in January but before any 2021 dividends or other taxable distributions occur so that I didn't end up with two tax statements for 2021 to deal with.
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livesoft wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:41 pm
climber2020 wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:14 pmI'm ignoring it and will stay on the old platform as long as possible. Much easier and faster to do a Backdoor Roth on the old platform.
We have our IRAs on the new platform. Roth conversions are trivial, so I am not sure how they could be easier and faster on the old platform.
+1 Don't see how it could be any easier...
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We transitioned but “manually,” because the transfers-in-kind were going to accounts with changed ownership (moving assets to trust accounts).

One recommendation for Quicken users: delete the downloaded “Adds” to your account and use “transfer shares between accounts.” That’s the way to retain cost basis in Quicken. This is especially important if you have uncovered shares.
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Seems to me that VG is doing the right thing for ease of use and to keep fees low.
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David Jay wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 8:36 am
livesoft wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:41 pm
climber2020 wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:14 pmI'm ignoring it and will stay on the old platform as long as possible. Much easier and faster to do a Backdoor Roth on the old platform.
We have our IRAs on the new platform. Roth conversions are trivial, so I am not sure how they could be easier and faster on the old platform.
+1 Don't see how it could be any easier...
At Fidelity, when I do a conversion, the brokerage platform seems to make me first place my converted amount into the Roth in the same fund it's coming from. I asked Fidelity and they told me that's just how it works. Then in another day I can move that money to a different fund. With Vanguard's old platform, I can both move across accounts (IRA types) and move to a different fund in one step. That hasn't been a huge problem for me, just annoying.
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I do an “exchange funds” from tIRA>Fund A to Roth>Fund A. I get a warning that this is a taxable event. I acknowledge the warning and it asks if I want any IRS withholding. I say “no”. Done.
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David Jay wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 8:53 am I do an “exchange funds” from tIRA>Fund A to Roth>Fund A. I get a warning that this is a taxable event. I acknowledge the warning and it asks if I want any IRS withholding. I say “no”. Done.
So at Vanguard brokerage you can say "Fund B" for the destination? That's my question with Fidelity (brokerage.) At Fidelity, I use "Transfer", which is not "Exchange", and seems to be purely account (as in IRA type) to account. Exchange works within an account, seemingly not across accounts.
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I already have both a Brokerage account at Vanguard and a mutual fund account. I get separate tax statements for both already. Does that mean I don't need to worry about the tax concern mentioned in this thread in terms of multiple tax statements depending on when I transition, or does it still matter? I haven't transitioned yet because:

(a) I perceive no benefit;
(b) I am worried it will mess up Quicken;
(c) and I now have the new worries about tax statements and more backdoor Roth hassle.

Assuming it is inevitable that I must transition someday, I would love any thoughts on the tax statement question.
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Scorpion wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 9:04 am I already have both a Brokerage account at Vanguard and a mutual fund account. I get separate tax statements for both already. Does that mean I don't need to worry about the tax concern mentioned in this thread in terms of multiple tax statements depending on when I transition, or does it still matter? I haven't transitioned yet because:

(a) I perceive no benefit;
(b) I am worried it will mess up Quicken;
(c) and I now have the new worries about tax statements and more backdoor Roth hassle.

Assuming it is inevitable that I must transition someday, I would love any thoughts on the tax statement question.
a) If you do the transition you will benefit in the future by having one consolidated 1099 instead of the two you get now. I see no reason to procrastinate. The other benefit is lower costs for everyone and a simplified single account view for you personally.
B) Quicken can maintain cost basis if you do the data entry correctly. Search on how to do it. You'll find many threads and you can match what you read to your configuration of Quicken (hint: it probably involves a transfer between accounts and Quicken will handle that by doing remove/adds for each lot). Back up your data file before you start.
C) There are no worries about tax statements (yours will be simpler as you will go from two to one). Backdoor Roth IRAs are not a hassle. Contribute to the TIRA. Exchange to the Roth.

The choice of the word "nagging" in the title of this thread is interesting. Some people don't like to be told what to do.
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Others have noted that one cannot have dividends in one fund automatically re-invested in a different fund, but they can be sent to the cash sweep (money market).
One of my funds is the former Prime, now Federal MM or whatever it's called. Does that one become the sweep fund if I do this transition?
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Just do it and move on with your life.

Regarding your specific question on money market funds, the settlement fund will be Vanguard Federal Money Market Fund (VMFXX). There is little difference between most of the money market funds with all of them yielding extremely low amounts. I would just convert all your money market holdings to VMFXX / settlement fund for simplicity. You can set up checkwriting against that with another money market fund or bond fund for backup.

Also, read at least the first post in this thread, because these points are often misstated:

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LOL. These threads are hilarious. I just never understood the issue. I hit a button and a few days later it was over. Completely painless and I don't see any difference what so ever.
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Brianmcg321 wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 12:35 pm LOL. These threads are hilarious. I just never understood the issue. I hit a button and a few days later it was over. Completely painless and I don't see any difference what so ever.
I agree about not understanding the issue, but I'm on the opposite side. I'm not going to do anything until it's forced on me in 2022 or whatever.
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So you relish being a barrier to progress for no good reason? It doesn't really matter whether you see it as "progress". You appear to see it as neutral, but your service provider would like you to do it so that they can progress. If you don't care, why make it more difficult for the organization from which you derive benefit? Quite puzzling.
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I’m transitioning my taxable investments to a brokerage account that I have with another firm so that I only have to deal with one statement at tax time. I’ve maintained a taxable account at Vanguard because the comprehensive year end statements were fantastic for record keeping and tax filing. I plan to keep my retirement accounts at Vanguard. I’ll transition my retirement accounts to the brokerage platform via a telephone call. I refuse to be put on hold for the next available representative; consequently, the timing of my transition will be entirely up to Vanguard’s customer service platform.

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Can't you just log in and click to convert? Why the need to call at all?
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I do Roth conversions and never have taxes taken out at the time of the conversion. In mid/late December, I pay my Federal Taxes for the year by selling the needed dollar amount and withholding 100% for taxes. Taxes paid in December through an IRA withdrawal are treated as if they are paid throughout the year. My understanding is that with the NEW platform, one cannot make a withdrawal and choose to have 100% of the withdrawal go towards Fed taxes. Is this true and are withdrawals to pay taxes treated as if paid throughout the year?
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Has anyone used a RMD using funds in their brokerage account and transferring amounts left over after taxes and QCD?
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tibbitts wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 8:17 am They've stopped nagging me for now, but my question is why are there some features that still only exist on the older platform after all this time? Fixing that would silence most of the objections.

At Fidelity I have a brokerage account and admittedly that platform can't seem to do what Vanguard's mutual fund platform can either, although from what I understand it comes closer. But that doesn't mean Fidelity has the best possible platform and that Vanguard couldn't improve on it.
I think it's because despite being marketed like a software upgrade, what is actually happening is no different than opening a brokerage account at somewhere like E*TRADE and transferring your shares from direct registration at Vanguard, to in street name at that brokerage. It just happens that the broker in this case is Vanguard Brokerage.

It's analogous to owning stocks as a paper certificate, or one of those Computershare direct investment plans, and depositing them into a brokerage account.

For example, T. Rowe Price still has one choose between opening "mutual fund accounts" (direct registration) and "brokerage accounts", much like Vanguard used to. Their "mutual fund account" similarly has the missing features, like directing dividends seamlessly from one fund to be reinvested in a different fund.

As has been pointed out on other threads, people in certain positions in public companies have all sorts of disclosure requirements in order to have a brokerage account. Often they can only pick from a selected list of brokerages. If it's a "mutual fund account" (direct registration) those restrictions apparently don't apply.

Why any of that means you can't direct dividends between funds in brokerage? No idea!
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tomd37 wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:08 pm If I am going to do it in 2021 or by 2022, should I consider going ahead and doing it this month anyway? My only concern might be the year-end reporting and what it is going to look like. I understand there will no longer be a year-end all inclusive year-to-date annual report, but rather four separate and not cumulative quarterly reports which will have to be retained for each year instead of one annual report to be retained.

I personally have a traditional IRA account, a Roth IRA account, and a joint taxable investment account with my spouse. My spouse has a traditional IRA account as well. In these accounts we invest in only three Vanguard mutual funds; Total Stock Market Index (VTSAX), Intermediate-Term Bond Index (VBILX), and Real Estate Index (VGSLX) if these matter in your comments. We reinvest any dividends in all the accounts and do not depend on those dividends to supplement our pension and Social Security income.
Do it after April 15, so if anything is wrong, like say cost basis info is lost or garbled in the conversion, or you cannot make an IRA contribution, you have the rest of the year to get things straightened out before the next tax season.

As noted, you lose functionality to have mutual fund dividends reinvested in funds other than the generating fund or the federal money market fund. You also cannot undo the conversion. You gain the ability to hold ETFs, and gain the ability convert index admiral shares to ETF shares at NAV for many funds. The minimum investment/balance requirement for Federal Money Market is waived. For many customers, these are good tradeoffs.
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hawkfan55 wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 8:05 pm I do Roth conversions and never have taxes taken out at the time of the conversion. In mid/late December, I pay my Federal Taxes for the year by selling the needed dollar amount and withholding 100% for taxes. Taxes paid in December through an IRA withdrawal are treated as if they are paid throughout the year. My understanding is that with the NEW platform, one cannot make a withdrawal and choose to have 100% of the withdrawal go towards Fed taxes. Is this true and are withdrawals to pay taxes treated as if paid throughout the year?
True, for your first question.

However, you can choose to send 99% to Uncle Sam.

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Makefile wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 11:18 pm Why any of that means you can't direct dividends between funds in brokerage? No idea!
The trick is that it is a internal transfer. You don't know the dividend that the fund is paying or the NAV of the fund you are buying until the day of. The trades have to be set up prior to the closing of the fund. If you are a external party you can't know this.

Technically the brokerage is a external party. Their could be a hack around this but I doubt that VG would be interested in pursing this. it is a rarely used complex function prone to errors. Then you have to have your representatives constantly explaining why you can do special trick between some funds - Vanguard mutual funds to other Vanguard mutual funds - and not others fund families or ETFs.
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climber2020 wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:14 pm
Gatto Bialetti wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 7:42 pm What's your take? Have you done this?
I'm ignoring it and will stay on the old platform as long as possible. Much easier and faster to do a Backdoor Roth on the old platform.
Why do you say this? Backdoor Roth (helping my daughter) as well as Roth conversions (for myself) take about 3 clicks and 1 minute to execute on the new platform.
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Yeah, backdoor Roth is plenty easy on the new platform. I've done it a couple of times. The hard part was the first time when I had to learn what's going on with the 8606 - and that's nothing to do with Vanguard.
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Cheez-It Guy wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 2:09 pm So you relish being a barrier to progress for no good reason? It doesn't really matter whether you see it as "progress". You appear to see it as neutral, but your service provider would like you to do it so that they can progress. If you don't care, why make it more difficult for the organization from which you derive benefit? Quite puzzling.
Some people can’t convert. My wife is a FINRA employee so we cannot use vanguards brokerage but can use their mutual fund platform.

Because of people such as myself I don’t see vanguard ever closing the mutual fund platform. But I can see them taking away features (ie no customer support, can only sell, no buys, etc).
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Re: VG is nagging about transitioning account

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alex_686 wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 7:54 pm Vanguard wants to retire its mutual fund only platform and move everybody to the brokerage platform.

Its is cheaper to run and maintain 1 system rather than 2. It is a much contested topic here but the writing is on the wall. Having been in operations I totally understand why Vanguard us doing this.
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Re: VG is nagging about transitioning account

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vitaflo wrote: Sat Dec 19, 2020 10:29 am Some people can’t convert. My wife is a FINRA employee so we cannot use vanguards brokerage but can use their mutual fund platform.
It never hurts to ask.

My wife’s employer’s compliance department was why we were in a “mutual funds only” account. We could not change ownership on that account to a trust on that platform, so we asked (well, we could have changed ownership, but Vanguard made it a royal PITA to do so). Unbeknownst to us, Vanguard had been added to the approved brokerages list, and they submit a feed to wife’s compliance department so no extra work for us. The transition was easy.

As it happens, we only use mutual funds anyway.
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Re: VG is nagging about transitioning account

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TomatoTomahto wrote: Sat Dec 19, 2020 11:13 am
vitaflo wrote: Sat Dec 19, 2020 10:29 am Some people can’t convert. My wife is a FINRA employee so we cannot use vanguards brokerage but can use their mutual fund platform.
It never hurts to ask.

My wife’s employer’s compliance department was why we were in a “mutual funds only” account. We could not change ownership on that account to a trust on that platform, so we asked (well, we could have changed ownership, but Vanguard made it a royal PITA to do so). Unbeknownst to us, Vanguard had been added to the approved brokerages list, and they submit a feed to wife’s compliance department so no extra work for us. The transition was easy.

As it happens, we only use mutual funds anyway.
We did ask, no joy. As it is it doesn't much matter since the mutual fund platform is still around and kicking. We'll worry about it for real if it ever changes, but I would be surprised if it really does given Vanguards wishy-washy communication on it.
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Re: VG is nagging about transitioning account

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vitaflo wrote: Sat Dec 19, 2020 10:29 am
Cheez-It Guy wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 2:09 pm So you relish being a barrier to progress for no good reason? It doesn't really matter whether you see it as "progress". You appear to see it as neutral, but your service provider would like you to do it so that they can progress. If you don't care, why make it more difficult for the organization from which you derive benefit? Quite puzzling.
Some people can’t convert. My wife is a FINRA employee so we cannot use vanguards brokerage but can use their mutual fund platform.

Because of people such as myself I don’t see vanguard ever closing the mutual fund platform. But I can see them taking away features (ie no customer support, can only sell, no buys, etc).
Yes, I understand. The comment you quoted was directed to the previous poster who indicated that changing was no big deal for him, but was going to wait until it was forced for reasons that were not explained.
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