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Finding Historical NAV Series for Closed-End Funds

Article Quant Q&A · Author: mbmast
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Summary

The document answers a data-availability question about obtaining historical daily net asset values (NAVs) for closed-end funds, including NAV on dividend payment dates. It suggests a Yahoo Finance ticker convention: wrap a fund’s ticker with an X prefix and suffix to retrieve its NAV series. Examples distinguish the NAV symbols from the corresponding price symbols.

The answer points to a prior discussion but provides no independent verification, API instructions, or coverage details. It does not establish whether this convention works for every fund, how far back the histories extend, or whether the data can be retrieved programmatically through the service mentioned in the question. Researchers should verify availability and accuracy for each ticker before relying on the series.

Key ideas

  • A closed-end fund’s NAV may be available through a Yahoo Finance symbol formed by adding X before and after its ticker.
  • The suggested symbol convention provides a possible route to historical NAV data separate from the fund’s market-price series.
  • The document does not verify coverage, history length, or programmatic access for all funds.

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# Historical Daily NAV for Closed End Funds


# Historical Daily NAV for Closed End Funds












Does anyone know where to get historical, daily net asset values for closed end funds from the date of inception to the present? Yahoo finance has daily opening, high, low, closing values, but no NAV that I'm aware of through their YQL service (querying yahoo.finance.historicaldata).

At a minimum, I would like to know the NAV of a fund on the date the dividend is paid.

## Answer by km0010km0010 (score 4)

https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/18639

On the website interface, you can get a CEF's NAV by circumfixing X-...-X (prefix & suffix) to the ticker. For example, the NAV time series ticker corresponding to the PDI price series is XPDIX. Or, XBTZX (NAV), BTZ (price). That might work for you.

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