# Finance::Quote::FTfunds - phpMan

## NAME
    [Finance::Quote::FTfunds] - Obtain UK Unit Trust quotes from FT.com
    (Financial Times).

## SYNOPSIS
        $q = [Finance::Quote]->new;

        %info = [Finance::Quote]->fetch("ftfunds","<isin> ...");  # Only query FT.com using ISINs

## DESCRIPTION
    This module fetches information from the Financial Times Funds service,
    <http://funds.ft.com>. There are over 47,000 UK Unit Trusts and OEICs
    quoted, as well as many Offshore Funds and Exhange Traded Funds (ETFs).
    It converts any funds quoted in GBX (pence) to GBP, dividing the price
    by 100 in the process.

    Funds are identified by their ISIN code, a 12 character alphanumeric
    code. Although the web site also allows searching by fund name, this
    version of [Finance::Quote::FTfunds] only implements ISIN lookup. To
    determine the ISIN for funds of interest to you, visit the funds.ft.com
    site and use the flexible search facilities to identify the funds of
    interest. The factsheet display for any given fund displays the ISIN
    along with other useful information.

    This module is loaded by default on a [Finance::Quote] object. It's also
    possible to load it explicitly by placing "ftfunds" in the argument list
    to [Finance::Quote]->new().

    Information obtained by this module may be covered by funds.ft.com terms
    and conditions See <http://funds.ft.com/> and <http://ft.com> for details.

  Stocks And Indices
    This module provides both the "ftfunds" and "ukfunds" fetch methods for
    fetching UK and Offshore Unit Trusts and OEICs prices and other
    information from funds.ft.com. Please use the "ukfunds" fetch method if
    you wish to have failover with future sources for UK and Offshore Unit
    Trusts and OEICs - the author has plans to develop [Finance::Quote]
    modules for the London Stock Exchange and Morningstar unit trust
    services. Using the "ftfunds" method will guarantee that your
    information only comes from the funds.ft.com website.

## LABELS RETURNED
    The following labels may be returned by [Finance::Quote::ftfunds] :

        name, currency, last, date, time, price, nav, source, method,
        iso_date, net, p_change, success, errormsg.

## SEE ALSO
    Financial Times websites, <http://ft.com> and <http://funds.ft.com>

## AUTHOR
    Martin Sadler, <<martinsadler@users.sourceforge.net>>

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    Copyright (C) 2010 by Martin Sadler

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.1 or, at
    your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.