Track Vanguard index fund (Target Retirement 2050 Composite Index)

[chocolatethunder77]

Very impressed with Portfolio Performance! It done a great job helping me track the performances of my portfolios.

Unfortunately, one of my retirement accounts is a 457b. The options I can choose from include the “Target Retirement 2050 Composite Index”, which does not have ticker symbols that are tracked by Portfolio Performance. While it does have a CUSIP symbol (92204E878), it does not appear under “New Instrument”.

Is there a way to have this appear on the Portfolio Report API? Vanguard provides daily CSV files on the investment webiste, but I’m not sure how to import this into the application so that it process automatically: Vanguard - Product detail -

[ProgFriese]

@chocolatethunder77

it does not appear under “New Instrument”.

If you have a security that cannot be found under “New instrument”, you can also create an “Empty instrument” and enter the corresponding parameters yourself.

@chocolatethunder77

Is there a way to have this appear on the Portfolio Report API?

I don’t think so. @Thomas only makes securities available there that are listed on XETRA.

@chocolatethunder77

Vanguard provides daily CSV files on the investment webiste, but I’m not sure how to import this into the application so that it process automatically …

So you can automatically load prices (but only for the last 3 months):

Provider: JSON

Path to date:
$.fundPrices.content[*].effectiveDate

Path to quote:
$.fundPrices.content[*].price

URL:
https://institutional.vanguard.com/investments/fundPricesServiceProxy?priceTypeCodes=NAV&timePeriodCode=D&portIds=1682&effectiveDate={TODAY:yyyy-MM-dd:-P3M}:to:{TODAY:yyyy-MM-dd}

You can’t use this URL in a browser because of the parts in the curly brackets. These are macros that are only resolved by PP.

HTH

[chocolatethunder77]

Thank you, this is perfect!

“Pfad zu Kurs” is translated as “Path to Close” in the English version of the application in case any other English users are trying to troubleshoot this in the future, but everything in your post worked perfectly!

[ProgFriese]

@chocolatethunder77

worked perfectly!

I’m happy about that.

Possibly interesting for other Vanguard index fund investors:

@chocolatethunder77 showed this link

https://institutional.vanguard.com/investments/product-details/fund/1682

and the resulting JSON-Request (see above) included

portIds=1682

So, if you have another Indexfund like

https://institutional.vanguard.com/investments/product-details/fund/2011

you only have to change the 1682 to 2011 in the JSON-URL. In the cases I tested, it worked.