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Go to Vanguard's website. Look up the fund you are interested in. Click on the distribution tab (or whatever it is called). Look at the historical payout dates. That should give you some idea of when the dates will be in the future. Yes, Vanguard will (eventually) provide the exact dividend dates. ...

on vanguard website, it listed their mutual and etf dividends distribution date. most are paid quarterly and annually. some are monthly. so right now, most are listed near end of march for most of their dividends payout. so what is the next one after march, june if dividends are pay quarterly? if ju...

how long do you need to hold a vanguard mutual or etf in order to receive dividend?

how do you read the dividend? for example let say you have $100k in vtip etf and on the chart it said it is pays quarterly for $0.05200. so how much does it pay in dividends if you have $100k in vtip? thx in advance.

thx for some of your response. i'm sticking with etf on my taxable account. even thought this board would advise against market timing, i'm one of those that would like to cash in profit etc.

I would not use Scottrade because they charge commissions when many other brokers do not charge commissions. I think that link that rickmerrill posted should be helpful if you read it. i'm not too bother with $7/trade for etf on my scottrade account. i'm more concern on expense ratio and allowing t...

well i bought and sold a vanguard mutual fund less than 90 days on my scottrade account and got a warning from scottrade that vanguard could ban me of buying future vanguard mutual fund on my taxable account cause of sec restriction and buying and selling mutual fund that quick. let say i want to ho...

if you have a taxable account and were just looking at vanguard mutual funds and etf...which one would you put your money in? for example, for each vanguard mutual fund, it has exactly mirror of an etf for it...like VTI - Vanguard Total Stock Market etf is the same as VTSMX - Vanguard Total Stock Ma...

let's say you don't do tax loss harvesting. if you don't auto reinvest in your dividends and too lazy to rebalance your portfolio or keep track of what to buy from your dividends 1 time each year, won't it defeat the purpose of letting your money work hard for you? i just want to look at my portfoli...

Its not filing taxes but effectively managing your cost basis, lot identification for loss harvesting and asset allocation that is made difficult by automatic dividend reinvestment. Better to take the cash, pool it with your other contributions for that period and buy the right asset to maintain yo...

You can use the money for rebalancing. If you are in the phase of life where you need to consume income, you can use the money for income. Since the dividends are taxed regardless of whether you reinvest or not, this is better than making withdrawals from taxable accounts for these purposes. like i...

Its not filing taxes but effectively managing your cost basis, lot identification for loss harvesting and asset allocation that is made difficult by automatic dividend reinvestment. Better to take the cash, pool it with your other contributions for that period and buy the right asset to maintain yo...

Read up Tax loss Harvesting(TLH) and Wash Sales. Automatic Reinvesting of dividends might prevent you from doing TLH due to a wash sale. You will have to keep a close look on the dividend payment dates on your accounts if you want to automatically reinvest dividends and not incur possible wash sale...

so explain to me why majority on this forum emphasize not to setup to automatically reinvest in their dividends on their vanguard fund? what is the benefit of it then?

i read on this forum, if you have a taxable account it is generally better to setup not to automatically reinvest in your dividends. i heard because of the less headache in dealing with filing your taxes at the end of the year. but if you have someone doing your taxes, what's the benefit then? what ...

let me be clear. i didn't make any sell for 2012. so the dividends that i earn on 2012 which automatically get reinvested, i have to report it to the irs no matter what? does it matter if i held my fund or sold all of my fund? so my $2400 dividends that i earn from 2012, i have to report it to irs? ...

4. when i used all my money and purchased another fund on jan. 28th. how long do i need to wait before i can sell it again? what is the earliest that i can sell for most vanguard fund?

i purchased 2 vanguard funds on my scottrade taxable account on april 28, 2012. the dividends are automatically set to reinvest for both funds. i sold all of my funds on jan. 25th, 2013 and used all the money i cashed out to purchase another vanguard fund on jan. 28th, 2013. i'm on the 28% tax brack...