Effective July 31, 2013, Epoch Investment Partners, Inc. became the portfolio adviser for the Epoch Global
Shareholder Yield Fund (formerly TD Global Dividend Fund).
Not exact matches
For example, if rates are rising, you can reinvest the proceeds of a
fund that will be distributing its assets to
shareholders into a
fund with a higher
yield.
The SEC
yield reflects the rate at which the
fund is earning income on its current portfolio of securities while the distribution rate reflects the
fund's past dividends paid to
shareholders.
MS: (Editor note: After explaining this to me twice, he provided the following example) Let's say that you are the lone
shareholder in a
fund and, when you invest, the
fund in turn buys a single bond at a 2 %
yield.
When the
yields on the securities in which money market mutual
funds invest are quite low, the
yields that the
funds are passing along to their
shareholders are also quite low.
I'm merely stating that after
funding the pension (in line with mgmt comments) and paying the expected dividend (while not an obligation to
shareholders, mgmt knows the company's relative valuation is at least partially based on its
yield relative to peers and will not likely cut it) there is no capital left for growth, share repurchaes or to raise the dividend.
More likely, your
yield on cost is going to fall if this
fund cuts its payouts to
shareholders — just as it has done almost every year over the past decade.
The Cambria
Shareholder Yield ETF is an actively managed
fund that employs the manager's quantitative algorithm to select U.S. listed companies that show strong characteristics in returning free cash flow to their
shareholders.
Since the mutual
fund shareholder has no control over the
fund manager the
shareholder is at risk of the
fund manager realizing bond losses in an attempt to redeploy into higher
yielding bonds.
Partners at private equity firms raise
funds and manage these monies to
yield favourable returns for their
shareholder clients, typically with an investment horizon between four and seven years.