Mutual Funds Cap Gains or Dividend Reinvestment

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Sep 1 08:50:21 EDT 2004


Did you try the Advanced Portfolio Report from CVS (head)?

-derek

rwshep2000.3129421 at bloglines.com writes:

> Aaron,
>
> Yes, I agree with your formula.  From the perspective of, "how much
> did I make from my original investment," however, you need to exclude the
> reinvested shares from your basis cost (cash in).
>
> In any case, am I correct
> in my belief that there is no existing report that will do what you describe?
>  Unless I am doing something wrong, the Advanced Portfolio shows only appreciation
> of share price.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob S.
>
>
> --- Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org
> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 00:59 +0000, rwshep2000.3129421 at bloglines.com
>
>> wrote:
>> > I want to know if it is possible to get
>> > GnuCash to  show
> my reinvested cap gains/dividends as part of my ROI (gain).
>> >  Obviously,
> if a fund has capital gains and dividends, it is making a return
>> > on investment,
> and that is part of the "gain" that I need to track, preferably
>> > in the
> advanced portfolio report.
>> 
>> IMO, whether the cap gains/dividends are
> reinvested or not should be
>> irrelevant for an ROI calculation. The return
> is the cap gain/dividend
>> when it is distributed. Reinvestment is simply
> an immediate purchase of
>> more shares using that return. So, don't worry
> about reinvestments, the
>> ROI formula (for a single commodity) should be
> something like:
>> 
>> (CurrentValue+CashOut+CapGainsPaid+DividendsPaid)/CashIn-1.
>
>> 
>> (keep in mind that if the cap gain/dividend is reinvested, then it
> will
>> be counted in CashIn and CurrentValue).
>> 
>> -- 
>> Aaron Gaudio
> <prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org>
>> 
>> 
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