Sanity Check

gadgetmind

JohnRo wrote: »

transaction costs are £12.50 reduced to £7.50 once your account balance exceeds £50K

Note that this £50k is the total of all of your accounts and those of family members, so not too hard to achieve.

This sum also triggers some trail kick back.

TCA

I understand (kind of) that unit trusts are forward priced, so you can't have an exact price at time of purchase, but is there somewhere you can check live values for the indices that all these tracker funds follow? I can't find anything.

gadgetmind

You can always look for an ETF that tracks the same index.

TCA

Thanks gadget. Were do I get live prices though? Everything I find is a day old.

gadgetmind

Google finance has real time for most shares and 15 mins delayed for indexes.

I must admit that I pay little attention to short-term moves in anything other than the one or two shares that between them account for 20% of my portfolio!

TCA

Anybody know where I can track live prices for the MSCI World Small Cap Index? Or a fund or ETF that follows it for which live pricing is available? Spent 2 hours trawling and found nothing. This is with respect to Vanguard's Global Small-Cap Index Fund.

TCA

coastline wrote: »

Not sure if this is what you want but theres plenty sites that do 15 minute delay...
When you have a broker you can get realtime quotes..

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=IWRD.L&ql=1

Thanks but that's the MSCI World Index (which is Global Large-Cap Blend Equity), not the MSCI World Small Cap Index. What I'm after is like this below but with info that's not a day or more old.

http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/MXWOSC:IND

TCA

coastline wrote: »

http://etfdb.com/index/msci-world-small-cap-index/ - blank page

https://www.vanguard.co.uk/documents/portal/factsheets/global_small_cap.pdf - no prices

http://us.ishares.com/product_info/fund/overview/SCZ.htm - an index for Europe, Australasia and the Far East with 5 day old prices

But thanks for having a go.

TCA

coastline wrote: »

http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/VANGMSA:ID

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=IE00B3X1LS57.IR&ql=0

http://www.trustnet.com/Factsheets/Factsheet.aspx?fundCode=I2FX3&univ=B

you need the ticker symbol...

Thanks again, but none of these show the live price that I'm looking for - all old data. It doesn't matter, I'll work with what I've got. I don't want to sidetrack JohnRo's thread any further.

sabretoothtigger

The BBC has a world stock index, large cap. A Small cap global index sounds very interesting and risky

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business/market_data/stockmarket/29954/twelve_month.stm