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Mutual Funds Pick Year When S&P 500 Is Up 2% To Beat Market
My Mutual Funds & ETFs (including Bonds) +4.4% ytd..Killing my individual stocks, but lots of time to rally plus many good Divs coming from stocks rest of year In all... good (enough) first Quarter...VTSMX +3.5%
Sounds like my portfolio mirrors that, 70% of my funds, 80% of my etfs exceed the S + P so far, but less so for my stocks, but in a few of the stocks I got lucky and helped make up for the ones that didn't do as well.
Whether mutual fund or individual stock, dividends don't increase total returns - share prices have the dividend built in and drop by that amount when going ex.
"dividends don't increase total returns" in long run.. proven wrong time after time, Some Day I'll give you the more bicycles theory on how to build a business...in mean time try to figure how more bicycles can help your business...
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In all... good (enough) first Quarter...VTSMX +3.5%
Sounds like my portfolio mirrors that, 70% of my funds, 80% of my etfs exceed the S + P so far, but less so for my stocks, but in a few of the stocks I got lucky and helped make up for the ones that didn't do as well.
They sort of do, being part of total return. But you know that.
Some Day I'll give you the more bicycles theory on how to build a business...in mean time try to figure how more bicycles can help your business...