Re: Canadian mutual funds symbols

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In Reply to: Re: Canadian mutual funds symbols posted by Mark on May 02, 2003 at 09:57:13:

: : Hi Mark and friends,

: : I've been retrieving my canadian mutual fund prices from Canada Stockwatch for a while. I purchased a new fund and to get my symbols for retrieval, I usually went to Canada Stockwatch and did a symbol lookup.

: : Surprisingly, you must now have an account on Canada Stockwatch to proceed with a symbol lookup.

: : Does somebody have an idea where I can get daily prices for Canadian mutual funds? And where can I find the symbols?

: : Thanks !

: :
: : Dave

: Hi Dave,

: You could use this site:

: http://funds.moneysense.ca/eng/investing/funds/screener/index.jsp

: to do your symbol lookup.

: Thanks,
: Mark
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: Mark Beiley
:
: Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00/XP
:

Mark:

I tried the moneysense site you quote above. The only symbols it seems to give for Canadian mutual funds are what appear to be its own, such as AIC*DER for AIC Diversified Canada Fund. Stockwatch comes up with a blank, as does Yahoo, and all in all, ticker symbols don't seem to be given at any mutual fund web site, no matter how comprehensive they may be (such as Globe & Mail's site).

I am beginning to wonder if they are used at all.

Do you have any advice on how we should update our Canadian mutual fund prices?

Jack

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