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If your personal rates of return for a fund are significantly lower than the reported return over the same period, _______.
You may be buying and selling at inopportune times. Just because your personal rate of return is lower than a reported rate of return over a given time period doesn't mean that you won't meet your goals. It may, however, mean that you're making trades at inopportune times, thereby sabotaging your results.
2.
Why might your personal returns in a fund not match the fund's reported returns?
You didn't invest in the fund at the start of the period that the reported returns cover. Reported returns are based on lump-sum investments over specific time periods. If you use dollar-cost averaging or if you invest in a fund at any other time than at the start of the period, your personal returns will differ from the reported ones.
3.
If your personal rate of return for a fund is much lower than the return reported by your fund company, you should probably take a look at _______.
When you've been buying and selling. Your timing probably accounts for the difference.
4.
Where can you always find your personal rate of return for a fund?
Neither. Fund companies rarely include personal rates of return on documents. You'll have to calculate the number for yourself by using a financial calculator or spreadsheet program, or by entering your portfolio in an online portfolio manager.
5.
When calculating your personal returns on a spreadsheet or financial calculator, you must enter _______ for your contributions.
Negative numbers. The returns you're calculating are for the final worth of your portfolio, minus the money you started with and invested during the year.
