How up to date are fund values on pension portals?

Workerdrone

Yes, before you say it, I know its a bad habit but I do tend to log in far too regularly to check my fund values. Yesterday there was a bit of a bounce back in growth funds and some of the other ones I hold. I use the stocks app on my iPhone and I've listed all the individual top 10 holdings in each of my funds so I get a nice sense of when its a green day or a red day just by scrolling.

Thing is when I log into my standard life portal today it says valued at Friday 11th November but most of the funds are down. I certainly suspect Aegons fund values are delayed by a day. Just wondered if anyone knew about standard life?

NedS

Fund values are normally updated daily (the fund information sheet should say when valuations are updated, e.g daily at 12:00). How often, and how quickly, your platform update the information is a different question.

If the platform is slow to update the data, you could look at another source (such as morningstar or similar) if you are desperate for daily updates.

Albermarle

I have noticed this on the SL  APP, although I have never monitored it closely. With pension funds, one day is neither here nor there in reality.
If say the markets go up on a Wednesday, your equity funds seem to not show this until Friday.

Also if you sell or buy funds, there seems to be a similar delay.

Workerdrone

Albermarle said:

I have noticed this on the SL  APP, although I have never monitored it closely. With pension funds, one day is neither here nor there in reality.
If say the markets go up on a Wednesday, your equity funds seem to not show this until Friday.

Also if you sell or buy funds, there seems to be a similar delay.

Hopefully a nice little surprise tomorrow morning then

dunstonh

How up to date are fund values on pension portals?

It varies. Some pension funds unit price is upto two days behind.
Some platforms have an interface that updates once a day. Sometimes they have one which is live.

Thing is when I log into my standard life portal today it says valued at Friday 11th November but most of the funds are down. I certainly suspect Aegons fund values are delayed by a day. Just wondered if anyone knew about standard life?

If they are pension funds, then it could be Tuesday before you see them updated (more likely Monday).  If they are UT/OEIC funds then Monday.  If ETFs/ITs then its live (or 20 minutes out or thereabouts.

[Deleted User]

You could use Google Sheets to fetch all the values and add them up automatically. Use IMPORTXML and fetch from quotes.morningstar.com (for example). 

Nebulous2

While I get a delay on all but ETFs -  you wont see as much of an increase on your funds as a result of the big jump in the index on Thursday. The pound rose substantially against the dollar and cancelled much of the rise out. We've been cushioned against much of the drop in America this year by the drop in the pound. Now the markets believe inflation in America is coming down the dollar may well weaken and we won't benefit as much from a rally. 

Workerdrone

Nebulous2 said:

While I get a delay on all but ETFs -  you wont see as much of an increase on your funds as a result of the big jump in the index on Thursday. The pound rose substantially against the dollar and cancelled much of the rise out. We've been cushioned against much of the drop in America this year by the drop in the pound. Now the markets believe inflation in America is coming down the dollar may well weaken and we won't benefit as much from a rally. 

Yep, noted that, just looked this morning. 5k up since yesterday on a 220k portfolio, was just interested in the experiment. It’ll likely be down again by Tuesday :-)

Albermarle

Nebulous2 said:

While I get a delay on all but ETFs -  you wont see as much of an increase on your funds as a result of the big jump in the index on Thursday. The pound rose substantially against the dollar and cancelled much of the rise out. We've been cushioned against much of the drop in America this year by the drop in the pound. Now the markets believe inflation in America is coming down the dollar may well weaken and we won't benefit as much from a rally. 

Unless the funds are hedged.

GSP

Hopefully a number will see a decent shift upwards of their fund tomorrow.

Me, my funds were going through some big changes last week with a lot of investments being replaced with new recommended ones from a review. On many messages on the website during last week, the portal shows transitions into cash and order dates of 7th November, but some transaction dates and times themselves on a number of investments being shown as 10th November at midday which may have missed a large part of the increase seen on Thursday?

Could be just ‘bad timing’ this activity occurred on one of those days it was key to be invested.

Hoping for the best tomorrow, but not expecting it!

thriftytracey

Will the fiscal statement next week affect pension funds (in a drawdown) so mainly bonds and gilts?