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HomeInvesting StrategyFixed Income AnalysisSummaryThe Savings Bond Wizard has been a useful tool for Savings Bond investors for more than 15 years. Now it is gone.The Treasury has replaced it with the Savings Bond Calculator, a similar Web-browser-based tool that is a bit less user friendly.Here's a step-by-step guide for exporting your bond data from the Wizard to the Calculator. For investors in U.S. Savings Bonds - EE and I Bonds - the Savings Bond Wizard was an excellent tool for keeping an accurate inventory and tracking past and current values. But as of June 1, the U.S. Treasury discontinued the Wizard and replaced it with a Savings Bond Calculator, a tool that's a little less user friendly. The Wizard - a free downloadable program offered by the Treasury - dates all the way back to the Windows 95 era, and it never really changed that 'early PC' look and feel. But it worked (pretty reliably), offering the ability to download updated data for all Savings Bonds. Now it is gone. Users with the Savings Bond Wizard already installed can still open and view their inventory, but won't be able to update data beyond May 2018. The new tool - the Savings Bond Calculator - is browser-based and duplicates most of the Wizard's functions. The good news is that all the data you entered into the Wizard can be exported into the new Calculator. It's a fairly simple transaction, but steps along the way can be confusing. So I'm going to

Offer a step-by-step guide to transitioning from the Wizard to the Calculator. A last look at the Savings Bond Wizard Here is a sample file I created with the Savings Bond Wizard, showing how the data are presented. This file is updated through May 2018, but now is closed from getting data from June. Important data include the bond type, original investment, issue date, etc. But you can also see the interest accrued, current value, current interest rate, cumulative historic yield and the final maturity date. In the Serial Number column, I placed notes showing information about the Savings Bond. Ownership information (Jack or Jill, since couples often have two accounts), plus the fixed Analyst’s Disclosure: I/we have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article. Seeking Alpha's Disclosure: Past performance is no guarantee of future results. No recommendation or advice is being given as to whether any investment is suitable for a particular investor. Any views or opinions expressed above may not reflect those of Seeking Alpha as a whole. Seeking Alpha is not a licensed securities dealer, broker or US investment adviser or investment bank. Our analysts are third party authors that include both professional investors and individual investors who

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