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- From: lib@cbnews.cb.att.com (Lib)
- Subject: Re: REQUEST: Rate of return in a mutual fund
- Organization: AT&T
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:58:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.135851.10907@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1993Jan23.013434.29921@unocal.com> stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini) writes:
- >In article <KLUG.93Jan22084644@klug.Software.Mitel.COM> klug@Software.Mitel.COM (Peter Klug) writes:
- >>
- >>Could someone explain how to calculate the rate of return on a mutual
- >>fund investment?
- >
- >The fund usally does for you in the yearly propsectus they send out.
- >You can these free for any fund by calling them up.
- >
- >The return is the difference between the Net Average Value plus any distributions and
- >and earlier NAV. Divide this by the time period and scale it to a year long period.
- >Many newspapers print this for all funds near the first of January.
-
- As the original poster tried to point out it's not as simple as all that.
- For example I put some money in Berger 100 this fall and it went up say 15%.
- I put a roughly equal additional sum in Jan 1 or so and it's gone up say 3%.
- If I add everything together it looks like I'm getting a 9% return, very
- disappointing because in December I was getting a 15% return so even though
- the fund went up since January 1st I feel poorer. Best to calciulate the
- returns on each chunk seperately and annualize if you like.
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