Where are Vanguard declared dividends posted?
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Where are Vanguard declared dividends posted?
A number of Vanguard funds and ETFs should be paying quarterly dividends imminently, but for the life of me I can not find and information online. Specifically, I need the ex-div dates for VBR and VTV. Best I've found are these estimates. Can't find anything on the Vanguard site anywhere. Why do you do this to us, Vanguard? I have no desire to buy a bunch of unnecessary taxes.
So, does anyone know where ex-dividend dates for imminent dividends can be found? If I call Vanguard, will they tell me? (Are there any tricks to getting them to do so?)
Thanks!
So, does anyone know where ex-dividend dates for imminent dividends can be found? If I call Vanguard, will they tell me? (Are there any tricks to getting them to do so?)
Thanks!
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Left my original post as a quote. Vanguard just release a "news article" about this here:BrandonBogle wrote: Recently Vanguard posted a news article about certain classes of a few funds making supplemental distributions. In that document, it made reference that these supplemental distributions would be in addition to the March 20 and March 26 distributions. The guess is that indirectly will be the ex dividend dates. Don't know which fund goes to what date to (and even if different classes of a fund fall on different dates).
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insigh ... ons-032013
MFs Distribution page
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/ ... TB=overTBI
ETFs Distribution page
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/ ... TB=overTBI
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insigh ... nds-032013
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Re: Where are Vanguard declared dividends posted?
ClosetIndexer wrote:A number of Vanguard funds and ETFs should be paying quarterly dividends imminently, but for the life of me I can not find and information online. Specifically, I need the ex-div dates for VBR and VTV. Best I've found are these estimates. Can't find anything on the Vanguard site anywhere. Why do you do this to us, Vanguard? I have no desire to buy a bunch of unnecessary taxes.
So, does anyone know where ex-dividend dates for imminent dividends can be found? If I call Vanguard, will they tell me? (Are there any tricks to getting them to do so?)
Thanks!
So....
Does this buying of unneccessary taxes only happen in taxable accounts right? in an IRA, this issue is moot correct?
Now, you are basically saying you want to wait until just after the dividend, to buy (or maybe the ex-dividend date I guess, so you wont get the dividend and pay tax on it).....
Never really thought of that before. feels marginal, so like what 2 percent dividend divided by 4, 0.5, then 0.2 of that say for 20 percent tax, .02 savings.
about 2 basis points saved? call it 2-4 basis points saved.
Interesting.
Re: Where are Vanguard declared dividends posted?
"If I call Vanguard, will they tell me?"
Most likely, VG will tell you "all in good time."
Lev
Most likely, VG will tell you "all in good time."
Lev
Re: Where are Vanguard declared dividends posted?
vbr went ex-div yesterday (3-20); nothing yet announced on VTV
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Thanks. Where were/will they be announced?pshonore wrote:vbr went ex-div yesterday (3-20); nothing yet announced on VTV
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I'm in Canada, so dividends on these are taxed as foreign income. Savings is about 40% of 2%/4, or 20bp. Marginal yes, but why not?LH wrote:ClosetIndexer wrote:A number of Vanguard funds and ETFs should be paying quarterly dividends imminently, but for the life of me I can not find and information online. Specifically, I need the ex-div dates for VBR and VTV. Best I've found are these estimates. Can't find anything on the Vanguard site anywhere. Why do you do this to us, Vanguard? I have no desire to buy a bunch of unnecessary taxes.
So, does anyone know where ex-dividend dates for imminent dividends can be found? If I call Vanguard, will they tell me? (Are there any tricks to getting them to do so?)
Thanks!
So....
Does this buying of unneccessary taxes only happen in taxable accounts right? in an IRA, this issue is moot correct?
Now, you are basically saying you want to wait until just after the dividend, to buy (or maybe the ex-dividend date I guess, so you wont get the dividend and pay tax on it).....
Never really thought of that before. feels marginal, so like what 2 percent dividend divided by 4, 0.5, then 0.2 of that say for 20 percent tax, .02 savings.
about 2 basis points saved? call it 2-4 basis points saved.
Interesting.
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On the two links I posted above. One link for MFs and one for ETFs. Basically, on the list of "all MFs" and "all ETFs" on the Distributions tab.ClosetIndexer wrote:Thanks. Where were/will they be announced?pshonore wrote:vbr went ex-div yesterday (3-20); nothing yet announced on VTV
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Ahhh right. Thanks.BrandonBogle wrote:On the two links I posted above. One link for MFs and one for ETFs. Basically, on the list of "all MFs" and "all ETFs" on the Distributions tab.ClosetIndexer wrote:Thanks. Where were/will they be announced?pshonore wrote:vbr went ex-div yesterday (3-20); nothing yet announced on VTV
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I agree that your next VTV dividend is something any tax-paying shareholder ought to care about, but perhaps you don't realize that VBR pays dividends on an annual schedule.ClosetIndexer wrote:I'm in Canada, so dividends on these are taxed as foreign income. Savings is about 40% of 2%/4, or 20bp. Marginal yes, but why not?LH wrote:So....ClosetIndexer wrote:A number of Vanguard funds and ETFs should be paying quarterly dividends imminently, but for the life of me I can not find and information online. Specifically, I need the ex-div dates for VBR and VTV. Best I've found are these estimates. Can't find anything on the Vanguard site anywhere. Why do you do this to us, Vanguard? I have no desire to buy a bunch of unnecessary taxes.
So, does anyone know where ex-dividend dates for imminent dividends can be found? If I call Vanguard, will they tell me? (Are there any tricks to getting them to do so?)
Does this buying of unneccessary taxes only happen in taxable accounts right? in an IRA, this issue is moot correct?
Now, you are basically saying you want to wait until just after the dividend, to buy (or maybe the ex-dividend date I guess, so you wont get the dividend and pay tax on it).....
Never really thought of that before. feels marginal, so like what 2 percent dividend divided by 4, 0.5, then 0.2 of that say for 20 percent tax, .02 savings.
about 2 basis points saved? call it 2-4 basis points saved.
Interesting.
The recent VBR dividend that just happened is an out-of-schedule micro-dividend to account for late-arriving dividends last year.
For the mutual fund version of VBR the dividend was declared on 3/18. It was about 2.5 basis points, so a 1 bp tax bill for you.
See:https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/ ... =INT#tab=4
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Vanguard just released their "news article" about this.
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insigh ... nds-032013
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insigh ... nds-032013
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Ah, thank you for that clarification. For some reason I was thinking VBR was one of the funds that had changed its distribution schedule from annual to quarterly last year.House Blend wrote:I agree that your next VTV dividend is something any tax-paying shareholder ought to care about, but perhaps you don't realize that VBR pays dividends on an annual schedule.
Hrm... that link is redirecting here: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/freshn ... erview.jsf. I can't find the March dividends page through their site search or Google. (Google has the link, but it also goes to that overview page, as does the cached version.) A little bit more transparency by VG would sure be nice.BrandonBogle wrote:Vanguard just released their "news article" about this.
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insigh ... nds-032013
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Yeah, they took it down for some reason. That said, the dates are March 22nd and March 28th. Can't remember if that was pay date or ex dividend date though. They had listed each fund and it's share classes on that page. It looked like most/all passive funds/ETFs were the earlier date, and active fund/ETFs the later date.
Guess they took it down for updates?
Guess they took it down for updates?
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This is the Google Cache version of te document. Looks like the declaration date, which would be the ex dividend date, right?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... QUjKl92u6w
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... QUjKl92u6w
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I don't believe so, no. The declaration date is the date on which the company says, "We're going to pay this dividend." The ex-dividend date should be after the declaration date. (The record date is then two days after the ex-dividend date; that way if you buy the day before the ex-div date, your trade has had time to settle prior to the record date, so you are now a shareholder on record.)BrandonBogle wrote:Looks like the declaration date, which would be the ex dividend date, right?
Presumably a company could declare a dividend on the same date that it is paid; I know private companies can and sometimes do this. For a public fund or company though, I can't imagine this happening, if it's even allowed (which I doubt).
So presumably if Mar. 22 is the declaration date, that's the date when they'll finally tell us the ex-div date.
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Hmmm, I don't see any bond funds there, specifically VBMFX.
Also, is it accurate to say that the funds like VSCGX, Life Style Conservative Growth, which is made up of 28+-% of VTSMX (div=0.166), Total Stock Market Index, would post a dividend of 28+-%, of VTSMX (0.166 x 28% = 0.04648) ?
Phew, that's a lot of verbiage to say that the dividends might be predictable if you know the dividends of the components.
Also, is it accurate to say that the funds like VSCGX, Life Style Conservative Growth, which is made up of 28+-% of VTSMX (div=0.166), Total Stock Market Index, would post a dividend of 28+-%, of VTSMX (0.166 x 28% = 0.04648) ?
Phew, that's a lot of verbiage to say that the dividends might be predictable if you know the dividends of the components.
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That should give you a reasonable estimate. Plus there's the dividend from Total International--it was posted overnight for all mutual fund share classes so you can look it up now. Plus there is an upcoming short term and long term cap gain distribution for Total Bond that should be in the mix.Hexdump wrote:Hmmm, I don't see any bond funds there, specifically VBMFX.
Also, is it accurate to say that the funds like VSCGX, Life Style Conservative Growth, which is made up of 28+-% of VTSMX (div=0.166), Total Stock Market Index, would post a dividend of 28+-%, of VTSMX (0.166 x 28% = 0.04648) ?
Phew, that's a lot of verbiage to say that the dividends might be predictable if you know the dividends of the components.
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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.
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Quarterly Divend * # of shares = Dividend Payout you'll receive in a couple days
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If you go back to my first post, I quoted the original text when I edited it. Their original document of March 20 and 26th seems to apply. For instance, if you go to the below site for VTI, you will see Ex-Divdend date of 3/22, record date of 3/26, and payable date of 3/28. 3/22 Matches the Google Cache entry and March 26th matches the reference article. Assuming this is correct for other funds (now that's a BIG assumption), then we can look at the 3/22 and 3/28 as the ex-dividend dates depending on the fund.ClosetIndexer wrote:I don't believe so, no. The declaration date is the date on which the company says, "We're going to pay this dividend." The ex-dividend date should be after the declaration date. (The record date is then two days after the ex-dividend date; that way if you buy the day before the ex-div date, your trade has had time to settle prior to the record date, so you are now a shareholder on record.)BrandonBogle wrote:Looks like the declaration date, which would be the ex dividend date, right?
Presumably a company could declare a dividend on the same date that it is paid; I know private companies can and sometimes do this. For a public fund or company though, I can't imagine this happening, if it's even allowed (which I doubt).
So presumably if Mar. 22 is the declaration date, that's the date when they'll finally tell us the ex-div date.
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/ ... =INT#tab=4
Thankfully, it looks like most/all of the MFs and ETFs have had their pages updated. So it should be trivial at this point to pull up the proper fund and look at the distributions tab.
I will say that Vanguard didn't make this process easy, but at least I can understand why.
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how long do you need to hold a vanguard mutual or etf in order to receive dividend?
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You need to hold it (settled trade) at the close of the market on the "record date". Basically, buy it BEFORE market opens on ex-dividend date. Or if trying to avoid the dividend (to avoid the tax), buy after the market opens on the ex-dividend date.seafood10 wrote:how long do you need to hold a vanguard mutual or etf in order to receive dividend?
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/02/110802.asp
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As far as how long you need to hold it, just overnight. But there's no point in doing so, since the NAV of the ETF will drop by the amount of the dividend, so in a tax-sheltered account, it's basically the same as holding overnight on any other day. (And in a taxable account, you're just paying taxes for nothing.)BrandonBogle wrote:You need to hold it (settled trade) at the close of the market on the "record date". Basically, buy it BEFORE market opens on ex-dividend date. Or if trying to avoid the dividend (to avoid the tax), buy after the market opens on the ex-dividend date.seafood10 wrote:how long do you need to hold a vanguard mutual or etf in order to receive dividend?
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/02/110802.asp
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Are dividends pro-rated ?
A google search says that it is a rare event, but I seem to remember getting partial dividends.
Hmmm, it might have been when moving some funds from Fidelity to Vanguard, but I am not sure.
I always thought they were, even though you sell the fund before the record date.
And do mutual funds work differently than individual stocks ?
EG, I sell a fund or equity 1 day before the record date, and will I get some percent of the full dividend ?
thanks
A google search says that it is a rare event, but I seem to remember getting partial dividends.
Hmmm, it might have been when moving some funds from Fidelity to Vanguard, but I am not sure.
I always thought they were, even though you sell the fund before the record date.
And do mutual funds work differently than individual stocks ?
EG, I sell a fund or equity 1 day before the record date, and will I get some percent of the full dividend ?
thanks
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Re: Where are Vanguard declared dividends posted?
Bond fund dividends are. In my experience, equity funds have not.Hexdump wrote:Are dividends pro-rated ?
A google search says that it is a rare event, but I seem to remember getting partial dividends.
Hmmm, it might have been when moving some funds from Fidelity to Vanguard, but I am not sure.
I always thought they were, even though you sell the fund before the record date.
And do mutual funds work differently than individual stocks ?
EG, I sell a fund or equity 1 day before the record date, and will I get some percent of the full dividend ?
thanks
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