With this in mind if we were to receive $ 100,000 in dividends per year, we would have to have $ 5 million invested in the S&P 500 index or
equivalent yielding portfolio of companies.
Not exact matches
«A conservative investment
portfolio comprised of 60 % fixed income, 35 % equity investment or stocks, and 5 % in a high
yield savings account (cash
equivalent).»
The fund had major
equivalent positions in the Vanguard High Dividend
Yield ETF (VYM), PowerShares Dynamic Large Cap Value
Portfolio (PWV), First Trust Large Cap Growth AlphaDEX ® Fund (FTC), SPDR ® Barclays High
Yield Bond ETF (JNK), SPDR ® S&P ® Homebuilders ETF (XHB), and iShares Global Consumer Staples ETF (KXI).
Municipal bonds can play an important role in an investor's
portfolio, offering a higher tax -
equivalent yield than many taxable fixed income alternatives, and the potential for
portfolio diversification to stocks and other types of bonds.
An
equivalent position in the PowerShares Senior Loan
Portfolio (BKLN) indicates the sample portfolio's exposure to high - yie
Portfolio (BKLN) indicates the sample
portfolio's exposure to high - yie
portfolio's exposure to high -
yield bonds.
Assuming all other factors are
equivalent, then, an investor looking to use his or her
portfolio to supplement his or her income would likely prefer ABC's stock over that of XYZ, as it has double the dividend
yield.
Even then, it would have taken the
equivalent of a 75 % rate of return for a 10 % stock allocation to
yield an 11 % total return for the entire
portfolio.
In addition, these funds must invest primarily in investment - grade fixed - income securities, such that the average credit quality of the
portfolio as a whole is investment grade (BBB or
equivalent rating or higher) and not more than 25 % of the
portfolio's holdings are invested in high
yield fixed income securities.
During the final year of the Fund's operations, as the bonds held by the Fund mature and the Fund's
portfolio transitions to cash and cash
equivalents, the Fund's
yield will generally tend to move toward the
yield of cash and cash
equivalents and thus may be lower than the
yields of the bonds previously held by the Fund and / or prevailing
yields for bonds in the market.»
I definitely agree that getting rid of 6 % debt is the functional
equivalent of getting a 6 % return and paying off the credit card, at that interest rate, beats the
yield I'm getting in my
portfolio.
To add some perspective on this month's dividend increases, the $ 97.06 in my expected annual dividend income that came about totally organically, via those dividend raises, was the
equivalent of investing $ 2,773 in fresh capital at a 3.5 %
yield (approximately my
portfolio's average
yield).