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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
I have Vanguard and Fidelity stock mutual funds, and I don't reinvest any of the dividends or capital gain distributions, so I don't really care when they are paid. But, I have never received any advanced notification of when or how much these payouts will be. They just seem to show up after the fact. I do check my account at the end of the month to see how much was deposited into my cash reserve account. Am I missing something? Where is this information posted in advance of the payout?
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Easy, have you ever looked at the stock/fund specs? There is a section called distributions and yields. It tells you the dividend yield, ex-date and previous pay date. So if it’s paid every qtr, add 3 months to the pay date.
Some of my stuff is paid the last few days of December each year but most are paid quarterly. MM yields are a little different.
You can also go to your last quarterly statement and see what you got that qtr and what you have made ytd.