SubscribeTrack Your Mutual Fund Portfolio using Excel [India Only]
Excel is very good for keeping track of your investments. Due to its grid nature, you can easily create a table of all the mutual fund holdings and monitor the latest NAVs (Net Asset Values) to see how your investments are doing. A while back we have posted a file on tracking mutual funds using excel. Today we are going to release an upgrade for that file.
Download the mutual fund portfolio tracker excel workbook now. [The workbook contains 2 UDFs and an external data connection. You need to enable macros to use this.]
How the Mutual Fund Portfolio Tracker Works?
- We use Excel Web Queries (a powerful external data feature in excel) to get latest Mutual Fund NAVs for all the MFs in India. The list of funds along with their latest NAVs is published everyday at AMFI (The Association of Mutual Funds in India) at http://amfiindia.com/spages/NAV0.txt
- The data is delimited using ; as a separator, I have used some formulas (mainly FIND, MID and LEFT formulas) to split the text in to fund name and latest NAV.
- I have used fuzzyText UDF (user defined formula) so that we can search against this list even when you have a spelling mistake in the fund name. For more information see fuzzy text search using excel.
- In the main portfolio sheet, as soon as you type a fund name, we search against the list to see if any fund matches the one you bought. At this point, we use the fuzzyText UDF so that you can spell in anyway you want (as long as it closely matches with the fund name). Once a match is found, we show the latest NAV for that fund in the tracker worksheet. And of course, we use VLOOKUP to find the NAV.
- Rest is easy, you can figure out between sips of coffee.
- The file is protected, but there is no password. So go ahead and poke around it to learn how the whole thing works.
- Even though the file works for Indian Mutual Funds only, you can easily build a similar model for US or UK or Any other country. All you need is a public source of fund data and a little web query.
Changes from previous version
- The formulas are more robust. Earlier version (available here) has some limitations.
- Selecting a fund is much more simpler. You need not scroll thru an insanely large in-cell dropdown. Instead, just type the fund name and thanks to fuzzyText UDF, the correct fund name will be found.
- I have updated the webquery properties, so that formulas get refreshed automatically.
Go ahead and download the latest version of MF Tracker Workbook.
What is your favorite way to track investments?
I rely my bank’s investment tracker tools to get a quick update on my mutual funds and shares. But I use excel to pull data from various sources and analyze it to optimize my portfolio. Using excel’s financial formulas, I can easily find out CAGR or IRR on my investments is and compare it with other options. I also compare my future needs against my current holdings to see if I need to invest more.
What about you? What is your favorite way to keep track of investments?
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Hi Chandoo,
Thanks for the update. I have been using your tracker and find it really cool. Could you elaborate on the update? What has changed/ what has been added?
Cheers
Vaibhav
@Vaibhav.. sorry for not being clear. I have added a new section to the above post mentioning some of the key changes to the template since earlier version.
Hi Chandoo,
Thanks for the updated file. I have also created a file to track my Shares with some graphs
but I was not able to pull data for Mutual funds.
Thanks a lot again.
Couple of things, dont know if you can pull out data but here goes:
1) you need to calculate IRR s in addition to absolute gain/loss %
2) you have to atleast show benchmark returns say sensex or the nifty, say annual. If you can show it for the same time period as of when you are holding the fund, thats the ideal
. And 30 year bond yield. (maybe you can just pull out 1 year returns of each of these from another source?. From current data its best to force benchmark ETF s in your file, row 3612)
Cool interface. And sorry for the additional work
Hi,
Trying to use the excel sheet of Mutual fund tracker, but its not getting automaticaly refreshed and it says that automatic refresh fail also when i tried to insert my mutual fund the drop down list didnt come up, request you to please help me in using the excel sheet.
Hi,
Trying to use the excel sheet of Mutual fund tracker, but its not getting automaticaly refreshed and it says that automatic refresh fail also when i tried to insert my mutual fund the drop down list didnt come up, request you to please help me in using the excel sheet.
@Srickant… good points. I use the IRR analysis to see the fund performance all the time. I kept the sheet simple, but we can easily add the concept.
@Mehul… Are you connected to internet? the file should refresh automatically. Also, there is no drop down. You have to type the name. Also, enable external connections and macros, otherwise the file wont work.
Dear Chandoo, i am connected to Net all the time as i am using it from my office, i had tried writing the name too but it has not helped yet, request you to kindly mail me if possible the working file that you are using on my mail id mehul.here@gmail.com
@Mehul… I am using the same version that is uploaded here and it is working fine for me. The file already has few fund names (as examples). You need to write the names of funds as listed in AMFI website (you can remove vowels or slightly mis-spell them). Also, check if you are able to visit this page from office… http://amfiindia.com/spages/NAV0.txt
Hi Chandoo
I liked your tracker.
I have a question though. In the Portfolio Sheet, how have you restricted the navigation to go to cell M2 for example?