Dear Mark:
To benchmark mutual funds actually owned, I maintain a MONITOR portfolio which contains comparable funds. Each MONITOR fund is initiated with purchase of one share (in Fund Manager). Other than reinvesting distributions, no other purchases or redemptions of a monitor fund is ever made in FM.
Each day, I “Retrieve selected prices” with “Retrieve dividends” “Reinvested”. There is usually at least 30 to 45 days between a dividend distribution by a fund and its appearance on Yahoo. I know this because I get the dividend distribution notification from the funds I own; then check to see when they are available on Yahoo.
For example, I obtained January 19 prices this morning (January 20). There are still no December dividends posted for funds we received dividends on last month. It appears that such delay is common for mutual funds.
My problem, I have no way of knowing when comparison funds in the MONITOR portfolio (which we don’t actually own) get their dividends (and gains) to Yahoo. In the past, I simply delete 45 to 60 days of price data and repeat the retrieve prices with distributions to get the dividends. Is there an easier, more reliable way to accomplish this?
Need the distribution information to compute CAGR and analyze gain.
Thanks, Phil