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Disciplined Approach to Investing
Jan 23
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During the depths of the financial crisis last year, high yield spreads widened to near record levels. Spreads in early 2009 approached nearly 2000 basis points. Since that time spreads have narrowed to near their long term average just below 600...
The DIV-Net
Jan 21
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Whenever I have a conversion about dividend investing, I get few different types of questions. It is very natural for people to ask questions. What is interesting is often these questions can be grouped into following two:
If any dividend...
Hedge Fund Blogs From HedgeCo.Net
Jan 20
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Investment Week - Thames River Capital has hired Dahlia Verjee as a senior trader on its global credit team. Verjee was previously a principal trader at liquidated US-based hedge fund group Deephaven Capital Management, where she worked mainly in...
Scott's Investments
Jan 15
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Approximately once per month I will be running a high-yield momentum screen and post the results. Last month's results are here. I should point out two things based on some previous comments on this screen. First, it is more of a trading...
Distressed Debt Investing
Jan 11
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As many of you know, I have written about how important it is to look at incentives when predicting what may happen, or what the probability something may happen, in certain distressed debt and high yield investing situations. It is my belief,...
FX Street
Jan 7
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Although equity markets continue to tread water the appetite for risk looks untarnished. So far...
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Business Wire
Dec 31
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The Board of Trustees of Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund (NYSE: NHS) has declared a monthly distribution of $0.085 per share. The distribution announced today is payable on January 29, 2010, has a record date of January 15, 2010 and an
Clusterstock
Dec 29
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The record $42 billion issuance seems to have gone through decently, the high yield of 2.665% was only slightly higher than pre-auction. Find the full official release here.
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Keep My Dollar
Dec 28
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In an article written a while back I discussed the rule of 72 and how high yielding stocks could help smooth out returns in a down market. I talked about a REIT that I had purchased at almost double the current price, but due to the large yield...
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Dividend investing focuses on selecting solid companies that pay a regular and growing dividend. Investing for dividends in the U.S. has been gaining in popularity since The Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 created qualified dividends, which are taxable at a 15% federal rate or 5% for taxpayers in the two lowest tax brackets. Many other countries, such as Canada, have preferencial income tax treatment for dividends earned.
As noted in the article Seven Important Reasons for Dividend Investing , stocks that pay dividends provide several advantages over those that do not, including:
- Dividends provides stability to your investment
- Dividends can't be manipulated or faked
- Dividends provide continuous feedback
- Reinvested dividends provided a significant portion of the historical equity returns
- Good dividend companies grow their dividends
- Spending dividends in retirement, does not harm your principle investment
- A dividend portfolio is relatively low maintenance
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