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Two days after the June dividend payment date and still nothing in my AJ Bell Youinvest accounts.
Why are AJ Bell so crap?

My wife has VWRL, the dividend is usually credited 2 or 3 working days after the Vanguard UK ETF she has, presumably because there's a currency conversion to be done. It gets backdated to the same date in the cash statement though.

Scott.

One day after the dividend date, not two - it was 24th June. I got the dividend for their FTSE 250 ETF, which is in sterling, on the 24th in my AJ Bell account. For a dividend in dollars from a Vanguard ETF, it didn't appear, even in dollars, in my Interactive Investor account until this morning, and that still hasn't cleared, so I am not yet able to convert it to pounds. I don't think AJ Bell are unusual in taking a day or more to get a foreign dividend available in pounds.

Is that really a problem? One or two days? I can't see that would ruin my day

If its any consolation, its the same with Barclays Smart? Investor.

It's the same in my HSDL ISA, not paid as of end of today.

Regards, Puffster

Personally I think AJ Bell are excellent and the OP should have a little more patience.

Life's too short to worry about it being late by a day or two, there are better things to do.

It appeared in my wife's account this morning, exactly two days later than the Vanguard UK (sterling) one. But backdated in the cash statement to the official payment date (24th).

Scott.

A similar story in my Hargreaves Lansdown ISA. VMID (UK Mid Cap) dividend in account on the 25th. Still waiting (mid-day 26th) for VWRL (World) and VERX (Developed Europe). And, as usual, it will be interesting to discover the size of the dividend when it arrives. Is there any Vanguard site that posts what the dividend amount will be when the ETFs go ex-dividend?

$0.381 down from $0.647 same time last year. Could be worse.

I'm sure the dividend is announced in all the usual places when it's declared.

Scott.

Their dividends are posted on Investegate

https://www.investegate.co.uk/vanguard- ... 42060103P/

VWRL is $ 0.381194

The dividend is paid in dollars and Bell or HL will do the conversion (less their commission). That is one of the irritating things about HL, that you cannot have a US$ cash account and receive the dividends in original currency. You are forced to suffer their conversion fee

scotia wrote:A similar story in my Hargreaves Lansdown ISA. VMID (UK Mid Cap) dividend in account on the 25th. Still waiting (mid-day 26th) for VWRL (World) and VERX (Developed Europe). And, as usual, it will be interesting to discover the size of the dividend when it arrives. Is there any Vanguard site that posts what the dividend amount will be when the ETFs go ex-dividend?

Hi scotia

Here's the Distribution Schedule https://www.vanguardinvestor.co.uk/inve ... tributions for VMID you mention above that gives the detail I think you wanted - there is a 'distribution' tab for each ETF if you do a search on their site.

Cheers, OLTB.

Update - By mid-afternoon (Friday 26th), both VWRL and VERX dividends were in my HL account

Darka wrote:Personally I think AJ Bell are excellent and the OP should have a little more patience.

Life's too short to worry about it being late by a day or two, there are better things to do.

Imagine the anguish when AJ Bell claw back the fx fees in a couple of days

No sign of the VWRL divi in my HSDL (Halifax) account yet.
And, oddly, the research button links back to VWRD so I had to Google to check divi date (24 June)

Just had a chat with HSDL - quote;

It hasn't been paid yet as it was received in USD first - so conversion had to be done - this added a day to it... so latest , it will be paid tomorrow.



VWRL is GBP (VWRD is USD) so .... I'm confused

AleisterCrowley wrote:Just had a chat with HSDL - quote;

It hasn't been paid yet as it was received in USD first - so conversion had to be done - this added a day to it... so latest , it will be paid tomorrow.



VWRL is GBP (VWRD is USD) so .... I'm confused

Those are the currencies that they are listed and hence bought and sold in. The distributions from both are still made in USD.

https://www.vanguardinvestor.co.uk/investments/vanguard-ftse-all-world-ucits-etf-usd-distributing/distributions

I do find the whole listing/distribution currency thing a bit confusing, particularly when applied to global funds.
I see it has been covered on another thread recently so may continue there, or start a new one...
cheers
A C