I assumed that the share / managed fund price is the closing price for the day but I am finding some variation from the day’s share price provided by my broker and the managed fund’s price provided by the fund. Can anyone tell me when the price is taken and why the variation occurs, please?
Hi @Doogal,
Welcome to the Community.
It will depend on a few different things. For most individual securities (depending on the exchange they are listed on) these will update every 15-20 minutes. Managed fund price update frequencies can vary, if you can let us know the name of the fund in question we can look into this further for you 
Thank you for the welcome, Jessinv, and I’m sorry about the delay in getting back to you.
I have established that the prices for shares in the Sharesight weekly performance report, on the day of the report, match the prices in my brokerage account. It’s the managed funds where the variation occurs.
Here is an example from managed funds (18 August 2021): Colonial FirstState Legg Mason Martin Currie Wholesale Real Income: CFS unit price $0.7979, Sharesight unit price $0.7850.
Adn another from my pension account, also on 18 August: Colonial FirstState PIMCO Wholesale Global Bond: CFS unit price $1.3979, Sharesight unit price $1.329.
Over time, the Sharesight price is sometimes the same price as CFS, sometimes higher and sometimes lower. It’s never a large difference, but I do wonder why it’s happening.
Regards,
Doogal
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Hi @Doogal
Thanks for sharing the details I’ve passed to our support team to look into with our data provider. We’ll be in touch as soon as we can.
Thank you very much, Jessinv
I have also started tracking my CFS managed fund FSF0490AU.AUF in Sharesight almost a month after this initial comment and can see the same problems. For the last 3 days it has been stuck on the same unit price with no updates. What I initially thought was a great feature now seems somewhat useless. Although I will admit that CFS is somewhat slack in updating its own online account dashboard.
My fund FSF0557AU has been stuck on the same price since 29 December 2021, although in fact it has changed dramatically over that time. I’m wondering if anyone has any idea why Sharesight, whose support staff tell me gets the data feed from Morningstar, can’t update? Better still, any ideas about how to fill the gap? Subscribing to Morningstar, at more than twice the price of Sharesight for the sake of one fund, isn’t on, and I can’t find another comparable portfolio tracker. I’m feeling very frustrated.
Has anyone had an answer on how often their managed funds are being updated on sharesight? I’ve noticed the Investnow funds (NZ funds supermarket) aren’t updated very often. Not good with the recent volatility in the market.
Hi @ecco it depends on the ‘agreed’ price update frequency between the fund managers and Morningstar. When funds decide to provide pricing & distribution data, they let Morningstar know how frequent would they send those data. It can be anything between daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, bi annually etc.
Thanks can u tell me what the frequency of the updates for InvestNow funds. Eg 25088 vault digital fund. You must be able to see on your records how often the price is coming through. It would be a more workable situation if I actually knew what day or month these funds are updated.