Please post your requests for fund managers you'd like me to implement, and/or any particular funds you'd like to see added first.

Fund managers I already have data for:

• Colonial First State - Managed Investment Funds
• Colonial First State - FirstChoice Investments
• Colonial First State - FirstChoice Wholesale Investments
• NavraInvest
• Platinum Asset Management
• BT Investment Funds
• BT Investor Choice Funds
• BT Classic Investment Funds
• BT Wholesale managed funds
• Challenger
• Perpetual
• Ausbil
• Pengana (Emerging Companies and Property Securities funds only)

Fund managers I think I can get data for:

• Hunter Hall
• Lincoln

Fund managers I'm pretty sure I can't get data for (without paying a lot of $$$):

• Macquarie
• AMP
• Australian Unity
• Tyndall
• Portfolio Partners
• Barclays Global Investors
• Principal Global Investors

Other fund managers with problems

• Ganes Focused Value Fund - only publishes weekly data, which messes up my statistics
• Prime Value Funds - don't have complete history ... although they do have a note on their website saying you should contact them if you want information on the history (whether that means they have the data available or not I'm not sure).
• Selector - only transacts monthly, statistics wouldn't really work with monthly data
• Skandia - don't seem to have full history of unit prices available. Can't find distribution data
• DDH Graham - they don't seem to have accurate distribution data - some of the distribution information is missing, so the results are difficult to obtain accurately
• Fidelity - not sure if they are actually publishing full unit price data, but they don't provide full distribution data or ex-distribution unit prices anyway, so I can't do statistics for them

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Sim'


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If we can get the historical data and theirs websites who only provide the data for the day, can you still do graphs etc?

Yes, but I'd be reluctant to do so, since if something breaks and the system misses a day of data - it can cause issues. I'm not saying this is something I won't consider - I'm just focusing on the data I can easily get first.

I intend to investigate models whereby I can afford to buy premium data for all fund managers - but that very much depends on getting enough income to cover those costs (very expensive).

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thats no problems, i understand the missing a days data as ive done it a few times and it just makes it so much more difficult.

i think there is enough "free" data to worry about at first to get and attract people to the site before you push into the premium data

once again thanks..

Great site Sim,
The following funds would be nice:
BT Imputation Fund
BT Geared Imputation Fund
AMP Small Companies
AMP Future Directions Geared Share
Challenger China Share Fund
Aust Unity Property Securities
Ganes Focused Value Fund
Prime Value Fund
Selector Australian Equities

Pity about MacQ

AMP and Tyndall

GIO0001AU and TYN0010AU are my funds.

One of the simplier ones and a good benchmark until phase 2 gets up and running could be the asx sectors and index..

this could be good to just see where the stock market has made most of its gains, and while it wouldnt be seperated between income and growth, i still think it would be benificial....

Hi Sim - great site I'd also like to see Tyndall info and any other highly rated Ozzie equity managers

Well Done Sim
I think l will just soak up all the initial innovations and appreciate comments of others.
Denis

BT funds are now online.

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Sim'


This is a general comment only and does not constitute advice. Before making financial decisions you should seek advice from a professional adviser, who can take into account your specific circumstances and investment goals.