How do funds handle money in/outflows?

[Pekelo]

Quote from black diamond:

Probably too small too get too worked up about most of the time, just noise compared to their overall volatility...
But I think most funds would suck at timing

Yesterday was a good example. The SPX had a 3.7% move, although it started preopen. For the average fund that 3.7% can easily be half of their annual return, so with today's volatility there can be a huge difference how they time the flow...
My guess is that overall it evens out, sometimes they time it good, sometimes they time it bad. I am still curious about how they credit the loss/profit over the EOD data.

 

[black diamond]

Quote from Pekelo:

I am still curious about how they credit the loss/profit over the EOD data.

If I understand what you mean I think you can change the numbers in the example I gave you earlier and figure this out.