retrieve international investement fund data

Question

I am trying to get financial data on bonds and funds not traded in the US.

This is my code:

import pandas.io.data as web

from datetime import datetime

end = datetime.now()
start = datetime(end.year - 5, end.month, end.day)
df = web.DataReader("U1IL.DU", 'yahoo', start, end)

But I always get the following error:

  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/pandas/io/data.py", line 177, in _retry_read_url
    rs.index.name = rs.index.name.decode('unicode_escape').encode('ascii', 'ignore')
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'rs' referenced before assignment

It seems that the "." part confuses the program.

Is there a way to enter alternatively

WKN (German securities identification code) or
ISIN (International Securities Identification Number)

instead of the 4-letter based ticker symbol?

I'm getting a different error for the query - there seem to be no historical quotes available for this ticker? http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=U1IL.DU&a=00&b=1&c=2015&d=11&e=1&f=2015&g=d — Stefan, Dec 14 '15 at 15:28
OK, so it seems that for funds outside US google & yahoo do not provide any data? Here they have some history http://www.finanzen.net/fonds/UniRak@inChartZeit_0 — DaCoEx, Dec 14 '15 at 16:37

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 14 '15 at 17:08

Yahoo only covers certain markets & exchanges as laid out here.

For German index & equities, SIX is the main provider - overview of securities covered from this geography here.

Note that mutual fund data seem to mainly sourced from Vickers with a narrower US focus. I have tried a few German fund tickers without success and would assume that coverage for funds, as opposed to equities, is low to non-existent.

retrieve international investement fund data

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