NAME

Finance::Quote::MLC - MLC fund prices

SYNOPSIS

 use Finance::Quote;
 my $fq = Finance::Quote->new ('MLC');
 my $fund = 'MLC MasterKey Horizon 1 - Bond Portfolio';
 my $product = 'MasterKey Allocated Pension (Five Star)';
 my %quotes = $fq->fetch('mlc', "$fund,$product");

DESCRIPTION

This module downloads MLC fund quotes from

http://www.mlc.com.au

under

https://www.mlc.com.au/masterkeyWeb/execute/FramesetUnitPrices

As of June 2009 the web site terms of use set out under

http://www.mlc.com.au/mlc/im_considering_mlc/personal/footer_tools/advice_warning_and_disclaimer

are for general information only, and only provided for residents of Australia. It's your responsibility to ensure your use of this module complies with current and future terms.

Symbols

The symbols used are the fund name and product name with a comma, for instance

    MLC MasterKey Horizon 1 - Bond Portfolio,MasterKey Allocated Pension (Five Star)

This is a lot to type, but you can usually cut and past it from the web site. The page source in the link above has them in this form.

The fund part is the investment, but there isn't a single price quote for it, the price varies with the product due to different fees etc subtracted in the different products.

Fields

The following standard F-Q fields are available

    date isodate name currency
    last close
    method source success errormsg

Plus the following extras

    copyright_url

As of June 2009, prices are published some time in the afternoon of the following day, with Friday's prices some time Monday afternoon. So the date is always yesterday or the day before yesterday. The currency is always "AUD" Australian dollars.

SEE ALSO

Finance::Quote, LWP

MLC web site http://www.mlc.com.au

HOME PAGE

http://www.geocities.com/user42_kevin/finance-quote-grab/

LICENCE

Copyright 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Kevin Ryde

Finance-Quote-Grab is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

Finance-Quote-Grab is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Finance-Quote-Grab; see the file COPYING. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

cpanm Finance::Quote::MLC

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Finance::Quote::MLC