Avg Ann Return - calc

If you bought the $8k late in the period, you really had $61k that grew to $80k (the added $8k at the end making up the $88k total). That 80/61 is a 31.1% return.

On the other hand, if you had bought the $8k worth early in the period, you really had $69k growing to $88k = 27.5% return.

Quicken considers when you actually did buy the added shares. That was apparently toward the later part of the period. Your values were made easier because you covered exactly a 1 year period.

yup - they additional funds were added toward the very end of the 1yr period.

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SO - created Perf Last 12mo report from 5/2013 to 5/2014 and looking at one example mutual fund - Begin Invest = $61k Bought = $8k Ending Invest = $69k

Market Value = $88k Quicken Avg Ann Return = 30%

How do you get 30% from those numbers ?

Here's another one - from an IRA I just setup.... Begin = $0 Add = $4,500 Ending = $4,500 Market = $4,576 Avg Ann Return = 26%

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tnx - yes, these were all involving recent mutual fund additions for 2014. and the Quicken report was -

Investment Performace with a data range of - Last 12 months -

First example - Begin 5/5/13 End 5/4/14 - the $8k was added 3/3/14

Second example - Begin 5/5/13 End 5/4/14 - the $4,500 was used to create the IRA on 4/7/14

Would just like the pointers to replicate the Quicken calcs of 30% and 26%

yes, bought at the end of the period, SO, how do you get from the $61 --> $80 giving an answer of 31.1% Is that merely 80 / 61 = "one" plus 31.1%

Yep. When there are not other 'in and out' transactions, that is what it c omes down to. The actual formula can be seen in Quicken's help file and th ere are Excel add-in function to replicate the calc as well. Likewise 88/6

Now if you have regular (or irregular) additions and subtractions, the math gets much more complicated.