... and a followup question would be, is it safe to assume that SP500 funds automatically reinvest their dividends back into the fund itself?
To use a concrete example, would investing $10,000 in an SP500 mutual fund such as SWPPX generate the same amount of return as investing the same $10,000 in the constituent stocks that comprise the SP500 and reinvesting their dividends? Let's ignore the 0.03% annual fund expense and potential transaction fees to keep it simple.
And for a more general "teach a man to fish" approach ... is there some reporting tool that will tell me how much in dividends the SP500's actual constituent stocks generate in a custom time interval, and what my return in this interval would be with and without dividend reinvestment?
Submitted November 08, 2017 at 08:55AM by Lenny_And_Squiggy http://ift.tt/2zsncQL
