How to handle UITs.

[Kevin A. Foss]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:08:57PM -0500, Roland Roberts wrote:
> I have two accounts which are part of New York State's "College
> Savings Program".  These are unit investment trusts managed by
> TIAA-CREF.
> 
> The problem is that these are similar to mutual funds but are not
> publicly traded so there is no ticker.  With stocks or funds which are
> publicly traded, I run "gnucash --add-price-quotes" and the values are
> updated.

If these are made up of the standard TIAA-CREF fund selection, gnucash
(or more specifically finance-quote) supports price lookups of those
funds using the TIAA-CREF website.  You simply need to set your price
source to 'TIAA-CREF' and enter in the pseudo-ticker for the fund in
the commodity editor and make sure your accounts are set to the correct
commodity.  The values are in the gnucash on-line help, but
I'll also list them here:

Stock				CREFstok
Money Market			CREFmony
Equity Index			CREFequi
Inflation-Linked Bond		CREFinfb
Bond Market			CREFbond
TIAA Real Estate		TIAAreal
Social Choice			CREFsoci
Teachers PA Stock Index		TIAAsndx
Global Equities			CREFglob
Teachers PA Select Stock	TIAAsele
Growth				CREFgrow

I've been using this feature to follow my TIAA-CREF accounts for a
while now and it has always worked quite well (except I think TIAA-CREF
rounds excessively in their quarterly statements, but that isn't
gnucash's fault.)

-Kevin
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