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Learning, Sharing, and Teaching => Investor Alley => Topic started by: Space Pickle on December 23, 2017, 08:41:38 AM

Title: ETF capital gains vs distributions
Post by: Space Pickle on December 23, 2017, 08:41:38 AM

How does this work? I’ve been invested for about 15 months, so this is the first time I’ve seen capital gains instead of a cash dividend for my ETFs. What’s going on? Am I not receiving a payment the quarter?

For reference I have the Vanguard Canada ETFs VCN and VFV held in my TFSA.

Title: Re: ETF capital gains vs distributions
Post by: anisotropy on December 23, 2017, 01:02:13 PM

I hope this helps:

http://canadiancouchpotato.com/2016/12/13/making-sense-of-capital-gains-distributions/

TLDR: you don’t need to worry if you’re using only RRSPs and TFSAs