List of dividends paid by fund?

bobhopeful

I got a helpful reply to a previous post (thank you) asking how I can find what dividends have been paid into Accumulation funds. (I explained I need to know dividend income but the platform doesn't provide it because the funds are in an ISA and SIPP).

I tried Trustnet but for one fund I hold it only shows one interim dividend figure for the whole year, dated March/April 2018, and another for the year prior March/April 2017. But this fund pays 12 dividends a year (As a new member I cannot post the link - the website is Trustnet and the Fund is Fidelity Index Emerging Markets P Acc GB00BHZK8D21).

Another fund anguard FTSE All World High Dividend Yield UCITS ETF GBP IE00B8GKDB10 has no data at all for dividends.

Any idea where I can find all dividend payments on funds so I can see a list of all dividends for funds that pay monthly, quarterly or annually?

Thank you.

ColdIron

bobhopeful wrote: »

I tried Trustnet but for one fund I hold it only shows one interim dividend figure for the whole year, dated March/April 2018, and another for the year prior March/April 2017. But this fund pays 12 dividends a year (As a new member I cannot post the link - the website is Trustnet and the Fund is Fidelity Index Emerging Markets P Acc GB00BHZK8D21).

According to Fidelity the dividend is paid annually (ex-div in March) so Trustnet is right on this occasion

https://www.fidelity.co.uk/factsheets/Fidelity-Index-Emerging-Markets-P-Acc/GB00BHZK8D21-GBP/?id=GB00BHZK8D21GBP&idType=isin&marketCode=&idCurrencyId=

Another fund anguard FTSE All World High Dividend Yield UCITS ETF GBP IE00B8GKDB10 has no data at all for dividends.

I have VHYL. I find third party sites like Trustnet are good enough for general research but they're not perfect, especially for ETFs, and it's generally best to go to the provider for hard facts. Click the Distributions tab in the link below. Dividend is quarterly, ex-div March/June/September/December

https://www.vanguardinvestor.co.uk/investments/vanguard-ftse-all-world-high-dividend-yield-ucits-etf

bobhopeful

ColdIron wrote: »

According to Fidelity the dividend is paid annually (ex-div in March) so Trustnet is right on this occasion

I have VHYL. I find third party sites like Trustnet are good enough for general research but they're not perfect, especially for ETFs, and it's generally best to go to the provider for hard facts. Click the Distributions tab in the link below. Dividend is quarterly, ex-div March/June/September/December

Thank you. Yes the Fidelity is annual, but it was Trustnet that made me think it was monthly - on Trustnet they list Dividend Frequency: 12. But if it is annual that explains the other figure.

The Vanguard link is useful thank you, I had missed that. I searched for the dividend distribution data on another Vanguard fund which is Accumulation, and the message shows no data because it is accumulation, so I searched the Income version of the same fund - I am thinking the dividend amounts received must be the same in both versions? Is that always the case (not just Vanguard but with any pairs of Acc and Inc funds and ETFs) that the dividend data (dates and amounts) would be identical for both?

ColdIron

bobhopeful wrote: »

I searched the Income version of the same fund - I am thinking the dividend amounts received must be the same in both versions? Is that always the case (not just Vanguard but with any pairs of Acc and Inc funds and ETFs) that the dividend data (dates and amounts) would be identical for both?

In my experience Inc and Acc fund pairs (not ETFs) will generally be the same but it's not written in stone so should not be relied on. For dates it would be hard to justify the extra expense of two distribution cycles for what is essentially the same fund but I suppose there may be exceptions. For yield I can think of at least one fund (M&G Optimal Income) that takes its charges from capital for the Inc class and from income for the Acc class so you couldn't use one and assume it applies equally to the other

Coincidently I find Fidelity to be more helpful than most for distribution amounts even for non Fidelity funds and Trustnet and Morningstar are as good as it gets for general one stop shop research but as I say I'd go to the horses mouth for chapter and verse (apologies for the mixed metaphor)

bobhopeful

Thank you ColdIron

grey_gym_sock

for ETFs (listed on LSE), the dividends paid out can be found in the RNS announcements, which are helpfully made before the dividends are actually paid.

e.g. for all vanguard ETFs, try this search of announcements: https://www.investegate.co.uk/AdvancedSearch.aspx?qsArticleType=ann&qsSearchFor=S1&qsCategory=4&qsSpan=120&qsContains=vanguard+fu

however, that doesn't cover accumulating ETFs, or the extra "excess reportable income" which even distributing ETFs may declare. (incidentally, this is also relevant for all overseas funds, not just ETFs.) for that, i'd look on the fund manager's own website; it will probably be in a specific tax report.