Foreign Investments

Shaun World

New year new updates coming no doubt.

Due to travel for work I've built a large investment on overseas markets....
I'm easily able to add foreign investments and update prices in a google sheets document I track these overseas investments with.

eg. LON:IWDA calls the up to date info for iShares Core MSCI World UCITS ETF USD (Acc)

Is it really so difficult for Quicken to be able to do so to?

Jim_Harman

Sorry, Quicken's quote provider for the US only has quotes for US exchanges. If you set up the Google sheet to save the prices in an appropriate CSV format, you can import them into Quicken.

You will need a separate account in Quicken for each currency you want to support.

Chris_QPW

Shaun World said:

Is it really so difficult for Quicken to be able to do so to?

In my opinion the difficulty has nothing to do with it.

It is quite simple, you might get quotes for free from Google, but a business like Quicken Inc can't, they have to pay for it.  And so, they have to weigh that price against the needs of their target customers, which mostly don't have investments in foreign exchanges.  Not to mention that there is a price for every exchange, and where they might satisfy X number of customers by paying for say the London exchange, others would want other exchanges all over the world.

Stu

I don't understand the answer.  For may years I have held positions on several London equities (not ADRs) and Quicken updates the quotes daily.

Chris_QPW

Stu said:

I don't understand the answer.  For may years I have held positions on several London equities (not ADRs) and Quicken updates the quotes daily.

Very possible, but the quotes wouldn't come from their third-party quote service.
Quicken also gets prices from your financial institution when it downloads transactions.
So, as long as your financial institution is providing the prices (which is only for securities you own) you will get them.