dividends

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This includes a bit of extra work to learn how a fund has distributed dividends and capital gains to consider potential tax consequences.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

State Street’s fund pays dividends to shareholders quarterly.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Wealthy individuals piled into private-credit funds—known as business-development companies, or BDCs—which invest in high-interest loans to midsize companies and distribute most of the income they collect to shareholders via dividends.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

All returns include reinvested dividends and capital-gain distributions and are net of expenses.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

Both of these decisions paid dividends the following year, when the prospects for an outright declaration of war against France looked virtually certain.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis