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WorkUntilRetire | 7 years ago | on: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)

Exactly! If I’m looking at a 5 year chart for any given stock, I don’t really care what the nominal price was, I care about the total return. Even more so when comparing 2 stocks.

Killer feature would be historical charts that include re-invested dividends.

WorkUntilRetire | 7 years ago | on: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)

Looks like a great start, thanks for posting.

For me, a killer feature would be charts with the option to include total return including reinvested dividends etc. I would happily pay for that if the data was accurate.

I may be mistaken, but it seems to me that the dividends listed in Google/Yahoo finance are often incomplete for common index funds. And it drives me nuts when I can't add them into the charts.

Good luck!

WorkUntilRetire | 7 years ago | on: The Real Cost of the 2008 Financial Crisis

Did Lehman run index funds? What happened to their customers?

What would happen today if a firm like Schwab or Fidelity suddenly went bankrupt? Would their S&P 500 index funds (Such as SWPPX or FFFFX) drop to zero, wiping out customer’s retirement?