Symbols for online quotes for UK Unit Trusts?

[Conor O'Neill]

I've had one reply off-list about this. Surely there must be other 
people using GnuCash with UK Unit Trusts?


Conor O'Neill wrote:
> I have recently upgraded to Mandriva 2008, which includes GnuCash 2.2.1.
> 
> In the past, I have been successfully downloading price quotes (for many
> years!) for my various UK unit trusts and some London stock prices.
> 
> These prices now don't seem to work, yet I can successfully download
> some US fund prices (e.g. Amazon; AMZN, from yahoo), so my basic
> Finance::Quote installation is working.
> 
> I think I might need to sort out the various symbols etc for the stock
> quotes. I originally got some of these ages ago, but I no longer
> remember how I arrived at the various symbols.
> 
> So; my question:
> 
> Does anyone have feeds for UK Unit Trusts working successfully?
> If so, which price source do you use; I'm trying 'Type of quote source'
> set to Multiple, on 'U.K. Unit Trusts'.
> And the, what symbols do you use for each fund? (I assume these have to
> be entered into the 'CUSIP or other code' field). How do you find a list
> of pertinent codes?
> 
> Examples I'd like to get working are:
> Rathbone Income
> Artemis UK Growth
> Aberdeen UK Growth Fund ACC
> and various others too.
> 
> Many thanks.
> 


-- 
Conor O'Neill, at home in Bristol, UK