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Sorry - I was running off to the doctor's and wrote a cryptic answer. Go to Finance.Yahoo.com. Enter a symbol in the search box. On the resulting page, click "historic prices" and the date or date range you're interested in.
One thing to watch out for is that many sites list the total assets for the particular share class rather than the fund as a whole. WellsTrade is a case in point. See the data for PTTRX vs PTTAX, two different share classes for the same fund. I don't see how knowing assets for a particular share class is helpful, but that's what they show.
I'd definitely be interested in a good source for historical Total Assets myself. FundMojo is one of the few I've seen, but it doesn't go very far back.
I'm surprised morningstar doesn't it have it somewhere. Yeah, I'm looking for the AUM rather than historical prices. Thanks for the kind reply though, David. Thanks for the tips on fundmojo and wellsfargo, too, guys!
Fidelity, Wellstrade, Etrade, and several others aren't going to give the AUM number you'd be looking for. The Net Assets number they show refers only to the specific share class, not the fund as a whole. Fidelity seems to be the only one to at least point this out with the heading "Share Class Net Assets". Others do not.
I haven't managed to find any site showing older total AUM data (older than a year). The only option seems to be to add up the various share classes which seems rather prone to missing things.
The only option seems to be to add up the various share classes which seems rather prone to missing things.
... or go to the annual reports for any fund that interests you where all assets are aggregated. if one does research on a fund, this shouldn't be such a big deal.
by the way, Morning* data is on the total fund level, not by share class... but it is the latest available, not historical. they do link to annual reports.
If you are a Morningstar subscriber (to the website) - you can get the AUM for each share class over several years individually by looking at the PDF for the fund. The PDF appears underneath the ticker and star rating, on the initial page for each fund, but M* doesn't have it for all funds. Again, AUM for >each< share class, not all share classes.
Also - I think that if you subscribe to Lipper then you can get the information.
Morningstar does have the current total AUM on the main quote page listed under "Total Assets". It is the total across all share classes.
I do see that the annual reports have the total assets for the current and previous year, but they don't show it over the past several years. In addition, I'd like to be able to pull the information programmatically into my spreadsheets. It seems parsing it from the annual reports might prove a little challenging. Not sure what kind of XBRL data is available, but I haven't been successful with my efforts thus far.
I do see that the annual reports have the total assets for the current and previous year, but they don't show it over the past several years.
Morningstar (under "Filings") just has the most recent annual report. I'm assuming the individual fund websites may be a good place to find historical annual reports, going back at least several years. But some fund websites are not very good.
If they are not on the fund website, are they available on the SEC website, or elsewhere?
It appears the shareholder annual report would be the N-CSR filing. The number AUM number we're discussing would be the "Net Assets" listed under the "Statement of Assets and Liabilities".
It seems rather difficult to extract that programmatically from that filing in a consistent way, but I've also found the value in the N-SAR filing which is more geared toward computers than people. The field in question in that filing is "074 T", of which there could be multiple for multiple funds.
It seems like the N-Q filing might have a meaningful value as well, but it didn't match when I cross-referenced with the value fundmojo had, so perhaps that's not the right number there. Fundmojo is clearly getting their data from somewhere.
MOZART325, that's not a bad website at all. Glad you pointed that out. Has some interesting information. I'll be visiting that website more often.
AUM data was very good but limited to about one year.
Thanks very much mrdarcey and rjb112. These seem to be the easiest to get some information about historical aum, with fundmojo having the advantage of showing it for one fund symbol across all share classes. But in a case of drastic asset bleed which one wants to avoid it would most likely show in the individual shareclass (as on the fidelity site) also.
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or contacting fund company itself.
I've attached a link for PTTRX.
http://www.fundmojo.com/mutualfund/fund_netasset_report/mutualfund/PTTRX
I'm also wanting to know the historical AUM for a specific mutual fund.
Enter Symbol
Select "Get Mutual Fund Profile"
Total Net Assets By Year
Kevin
Go to Finance.Yahoo.com. Enter a symbol in the search box. On the resulting page, click "historic prices" and the date or date range you're interested in.
Artisan International in late March to mid April 1998? No problem!
David
I think the OP wanted historical assets under management, not historical prices.
George..
I'd definitely be interested in a good source for historical Total Assets myself. FundMojo is one of the few I've seen, but it doesn't go very far back.
I've known about the Yahoo Finance historical prices for quite some time.
I wasn't able to tell what the actual AUM were. Just a general idea whether they were increasing or decreasing.
This was with Internet Explorer. Maybe with Chrome or Firefox you see something different.
Perhaps I missed a link that you saw?
AUM data was very good but limited to about one year.
Kevin
I haven't managed to find any site showing older total AUM data (older than a year). The only option seems to be to add up the various share classes which seems rather prone to missing things.
by the way, Morning* data is on the total fund level, not by share class... but it is the latest available, not historical. they do link to annual reports.
Also - I think that if you subscribe to Lipper then you can get the information.
Here is example for top 25 funds:
http://www.diansfundfreebies.com/performance/lg25.pdf
I do see that the annual reports have the total assets for the current and previous year, but they don't show it over the past several years. In addition, I'd like to be able to pull the information programmatically into my spreadsheets. It seems parsing it from the annual reports might prove a little challenging. Not sure what kind of XBRL data is available, but I haven't been successful with my efforts thus far.
I'm assuming the individual fund websites may be a good place to find historical annual reports, going back at least several years. But some fund websites are not very good.
If they are not on the fund website, are they available on the SEC website, or elsewhere?
http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/mutualsearch.htm
It appears the shareholder annual report would be the N-CSR filing. The number AUM number we're discussing would be the "Net Assets" listed under the "Statement of Assets and Liabilities".
It seems rather difficult to extract that programmatically from that filing in a consistent way, but I've also found the value in the N-SAR filing which is more geared toward computers than people. The field in question in that filing is "074 T", of which there could be multiple for multiple funds.
It seems like the N-Q filing might have a meaningful value as well, but it didn't match when I cross-referenced with the value fundmojo had, so perhaps that's not the right number there. Fundmojo is clearly getting their data from somewhere.
And the "Statement of Assets and Liabilities" has the data. Both in the Annual reports and the Semi-annual reports.
Now I'm looking at the SEC website to see how far back in history you can find these reports. Did you run across that?