Re: Overall Gain/Loss Including Reinvested Distributions

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In Reply to: Re: Overall Gain/Loss Including Reinvested Distributions posted by Mark on October 09, 2004 at 17:07:32:

: : Mark: In an old message: Profit / Loss posted by Jeff on June 04, 2003 at 22:50:45:, you explained the "Gain (between)" field, defined as Gain = End Value + Sells + Dist. - Buys - Beg Value.

: : How can I obtain a overall gain measure like with any Reinvested Distributions also included?

: Hi David,

: The reinvested distributions are essentially included in the End Value.
: Can you give me an example, of what calculation you'd like to see with the
: reinvestments?

: Thanks,
: Mark
: --
: Mark Beiley
: Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00/XP/2003
:

I want this measure to show the potential taxable gain/loss in the investment if it were to be sold.

For example, given a simple no-load mutual fund investment that has its distributions regularly reinvested, the cost basis would be the fund purchase amount plus the sum of all reinvestments. The taxable gain/loss would be the End Value minus the cost basis.

For an investment that may have many reinvested distribution amounts over the years, plus other possibles types of transactions, it is not easy to manually calculate the gain/loss tax consequences of a potential sale. For a large portfolio containing many investments, it's even more difficult assess tax impacts and easily choose investments to sell or hold.

Hope this helps to explain my question.

Replies:

• Re: Overall Gain/Loss Including Reinvested Distributions Mark 19:09:52 10/10/04 (2)
  • Re: Overall Gain/Loss Including Reinvested Distributions David A 07:42:00 10/11/04 (1)
    • Re: Overall Gain/Loss Including Reinvested Distributions David A 07:57:36 10/11/04 (0)