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Scott's Investments
Nov 7
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In early October I detailed 2 high yield investment strategies (part 1 and 2) that have had a history of outperformance. Below is the list of stocks meeting the two strategies criteria as of the close on November 6th. Obviously, past performance...
Marketwire
Nov 6
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- (Marketwire) -- 11/06/09 -- Helios High Yield Fund (the "Fund") (NYSE: HHY) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a monthly dividend of $0.04 per share, payable on November 25, 2009 to stockholders of record on
Banking Business Review
Nov 4
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Index takes yield-oriented approach in measuring the performance of infrastructure companies
Business Wire
Oct 30
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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 November 30, 2009, has a record date of November 16, 2009 and an
George Washington's Blog
Oct 28
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Forget the permabears, even Pimco's Bill Gross is now saying a V-shaped recovery is unlikely:
The total bond market yields only 3.5%. To get more than that, high yield, distressed mortgages, and stocks beckon
the investor increasingly...
Scott's Investments
Oct 15
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Below is a list of the 20 best performing "high yield" ETFs over the past 6 months. ETFs were ranked by 6 month performance and were required to have a 3% minimum dividend yield.
The list for the middle of October has a strong global theme...
Dividend Growth Investor
Oct 7
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Investors often fall in love with stocks, which are synonymous with innovation, growth and have delivered strong total returns up to a point. It is easy to fall in love with a stock, which everyone else is touting as the next great thing, whose...
Scott's Investments
Oct 6
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A reader of
my blog
suggested a supplementary high yield stock study to the one I
featured yesterday.
The study I'm looking at today is a 2006 paper by Patel, Yao, and Barefoot of Credit Suisse (available for download
here
). The...
AlphaNinja
Oct 5
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Michael Milken
is like the Energizer Bunny of junk bonds...
Still barred from the securities industry after his 1989 plea bargain, he's arguing again in favor of high yield debt as a fantastic tool for capital allocation and wealth/job creation....
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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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