Just changed from Money Extra to Trustnet

oldwiring

Loaded most of my info yesterday, and it was quite easy, but today I am trying to find and load a with-profis life bond and a distribution bond. Arghh! Not only are the funds hellishly difficult to identify, but the search is so slow, I think the sit's server must be working near
-273 deg C.

Trustnet seemed quite near MX, but if I an seeing normal performance, is there something simper and better?

mike88

The problem with Trustnet is that you can't see the daily rises and falls in the totals as was possible with MX. If I'm wrong can anyone tell me if this is possible?

scrambledeggs

mike88 wrote: »

The problem with Trustnet is that you can't see the daily rises and falls in the totals as was possible with MX. If I'm wrong can anyone tell me if this is possible?

I don't think it's possible, the 'Analysis' function only shows YTD/1y/3y/5y and no day change. Morningstar shows the '1 day % return' on the portfolio homepage but has other limitations. In my frustration I ended up making a portfolio spreadsheet on Google Docs that grabs the data from Google Finance via the '=googlefinance' function. Their mutual fund data is from the previous day's close, though, so if you want more up to date prices you have to use the '=importhtml' function to grab table data from Morningstar/FT.

oldwiring

Well, slow as it was, I finslly found the funds I was looking for. The problem there was that Aviva has [STRIKE]kilo[/STRIKE] metres of listing, having absorbed the like of CUACO and NU with similar named funds.

Google lost me: I hadn't a clue about the codes I needed.

scrambledeggs

oldwiring wrote: »

Google lost me: I hadn't a clue about the codes I needed.

You don't have to know the symbols/codes, you can type the name of the fund in the symbol box and it should pop up with a list of matching funds. I would be happy just to use Google Finance's portfolio tool but the the price on the BlackRock Global Property Equities tracker is stuck at 0.00.

oldwiring

If I need Google, that'll be something to remember. TN doesn't consider one can have a nil balance on an account, so I just entered a penny.

scrambledeggs

oldwiring wrote: »

If I need Google, that'll be something to remember. TN doesn't consider one can have a nil balance on an account, so I just entered a penny.

Trustnet also only seems to allow purchases and not sales (only deletions), unless I'm just being daft and not found it.

bigfreddiel

Investors chronicle portfolio manager does a good job, easy to use

Cheers fj