Best cotation places for fund ? (Was: Can you help to find cotation places ?)

[Conor O'Neill]

AmigaPhil wrote:
> I wrote:
> 
>> I had no problem to configure the online retrival of quotes for
>> shares, but it is more complex for funds.
>>
>> Can you help for these ?
>>
>> - Altervision Balance Europe k. (fund)
>>   ISIN: BE0169414522
>>   Note: Found the cotation on http://www.lecho.be
>>         but there is no module for this site.
>>
>> - Triodos Values Pioneer (fund)
>>   ISIN: LU0278272843
>>
>> - FortisLuxbgFin 06-11 pe (floating rate bund)
>>   ISIN: XS0270890113
>>   Note: Found the cotation on http://www.bourse.lu
>>         but there is no module for this site.
>>
> 
> Well, my query was probably too specific, and I understand that
> nobody really wish to search for these.  ;-)
> 
> 
> So I reformulate to:
> 
> What is/are the best places to search for cotations of funds and
> floating rate bunds (international) ?

I have had similar problems in the past. There doesn't seem to be a
definitive site to retrieve prices from, and this is complicated badly
by the fact that the web sites change format every so often to mess
things around.

In January 2008, I thought I'd got things stabilised (for UK funds, at
least), and I wrote up a summary, which you can find here [but note that
this went out of date almost immediately].
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2008-January/023541.html

I am now using a modified version of Finance::Quote (V1.15, I think) to
obtain prices from Yahoo Europe. The patch was posted by David Reiser (I
think) some time last year. See some discussion by him here:
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2009-March/029064.html

Note that http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/quote_lookup.html has one of your
funds listed, but not the other two.

I hope this helps a bit, but unfortunately this is an area where there
isn't a nice simple answer.

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

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