Browse; Market Data; Investment Trusts

29th Jun '20 by Macro

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Looking at the database from the front page: Select Browse, then Market Data, then Investment Trusts.

What I see is a mangled mess of ETFs and Investment Trusts - not a ordered managed database of Investment Trusts.

Why is it so difficult to achieve a list of Investment Trusts?

The full list - available on the trade body web site, is a known set. A categorisation scheme is provided to make navigating the set easier.

https://www.theaic.co.uk/ & https://www.theaic.co.uk/aic/s...

Even the annually produced "Investment Trust Handbook" is available for free on-line, https://ithb.co.uk/ , and includes a handy directory of the mainstream investment trusts in their online directory: https://ithb.co.uk/directory/
So, why is the Stockopedia database so disorganised?

Surely this is no more than a summer intern type task to sort out?

Can we get this sorted out, please? The current status is very poor.

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aflash

29th Jun '20

If you find the information you want elsewhere, why ask Stocko to expend ressources duplicating it?

A quick look at your links, however, does not produce the discount/premium information that I base most of my buy/sell decision on. That I find well flagged by my brokerage site so use that.

As a general point, the reason I subscribed was to dig deeper into the accounts to understand the buy/sell recommendations in the media on individual companies. Beyond that the editorial content and the kind of information you are looking for is not what I pay for.

A quick look at your links, however, does not produce the discount/premium information that I base most of my buy/sell decision on. Maybe on a closer examination...It is well flagged by my brokerage site so I use that.

As a general point, the reason I subscribed was to dig deeper into the accounts to understand the buy/sell recommendations in the media on individual companies. So I run through the holdings in a trust and get an idea of their Value & Quality.

The editorial content, opinions of others and the kind of information you are looking for is not what I pay for. Each to his own. I agree there are many frustrating features but there are also many alternative sources on the internet.

ezlifeme

All Ideas are GREAT Ideas if put across clearly and to the correct person. WE don't sort out Stock the Development Team do

- To try and assist there is a.clear method of suggesting ideas

Go to Learn - Roadmap - In Consideration

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Macro

30th Jun '20

In reply to "Ezlifeme": I had made my comments on the two items under consideration.

In reply to "Aflash": Stockopedia have made available functionality in the form of an Investment Trusts browser that is simply non-functional. I am a paying customer and perfectly within my rights to point out that released functionality is simply not fit for purppose.

Features that have been released that simply do not work are not items that need to wait for their time-slot in the "product development roadmap" . They are priorities to be fixed today, not in 3 months or 3 years.

I repeat my original conclusion:

Edward Croft

We are actually in licensing negotiations with data vendors to radically improve the collective investment resources on the Stockopedia site - i.e. investment trust, ETF and OEICs. I never guarantee anything, nor do I predict dates, but watch this space.

Thank you for taking the time to reply, Edward.

As my subscription expires this evening I will renew based upon your intent.

OldSchool05

5th Jul '20

Agreed. This area needs to be improved. I've put my support to the Roadmap in progress.

pka

Hi Edward,

You wrote:

"We are actually in licensing negotiations with data vendors to radically improve the collective investment resources on the Stockopedia site - i.e. investment trust, ETF and OEICs. I never guarantee anything, nor do I predict dates, but watch this space."

I think Stockopedia is a great web site. However, I asked Stockopedia to provide discount and Net Asset Value information for investment trusts on several occasions, beginning about five years ago, and I got the same reply as the above on each occasion. I would have thought that information would be easy to get hold of, but it is still not provided years after it was first promised.

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