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Anonymous

07 Jun 2019

Robo-Advisors

Where does dividends from Robo Advisors go to? Will the dividends be invested back into the portfolio?

I also understand that for some robo Advisors, dividend withholding tax is applicable. Is it the same for DFA (moneyowl or endowus)?

Also, are we able to adjust/change the amount to be invested monthly? (If I transfer more than the stated amount, will everything be invested or only the stated amount will be invested?)

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Kenneth Lou

07 Jun 2019

Co-founder at Seedly

To answer your first question, yes your dividends are re-invested back into the portfolio.

It will go back into your account and it will be whon in the transaction statement monthly.

In fact, I think most robo advisors witholding tax will all apply.

If you transfer that amount into your Robo-advisor account (it is basically their bank account) the total amount will be managed by them (usually they will keep a small % as cash) but almost 95% or more will be invested based on your risk preference and appetite.

Hope this helps!

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Edwin Koh

28 May 2019

Software Engineer Lead at Rhine Digital

From what I know , most of the robo Advisors dividends are all reinvested into your portfolio. Hence you can actually treat the system as compounding interest. So everytime there is a dividends it get reinvest , your portfolio get bigger and bigger with each dividends paid.

For what I know about smarty, they will invest whatever amount that has been transfer into the goal itself.

Sin Ting So

28 May 2019

Head Of Client Experience at Endowus

Dear Anonymous,

Let me answer for Endowus - firstly we use accumulation share classes for the fund...

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