Sentences with phrase «high yield performance»

The energy and materials sectors have disproportionately contributed to U.S. high yield performance overall.

Not exact matches

Just check out the performances of TIPS versus high yield over the past decade.

High - yield bonds delivered another year of strong performance in 2017, with the benchmark Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate High Yield 2 % Issuer Capped Index returning 7.2 % as we approached year -yield bonds delivered another year of strong performance in 2017, with the benchmark Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate High Yield 2 % Issuer Capped Index returning 7.2 % as we approached year -Yield 2 % Issuer Capped Index returning 7.2 % as we approached year - end.

It'd be hard for any fixed income asset class to match the 2016 performance of the Markit iBoxx USD Liquid High Yield Index, which returned 15.31 % (source: Bloomberg).

Moderator Sumit Desai of Morningstar began the panel discussion Tuesday by framing high - yield bond growth and volatility, both in performance and assets.

Thus far in 2015, the performance of the Dogs of the Dow has not been particularly inspiring, with the 10 highest - yielding Dow components at the start of the year up 5.0 % in February, versus a 5.7 % increase in the overall Dow and a 6.1 % jump in the remaining 20 companies that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

«Perhaps the biggest issue we have with high yield is that the asset class» performance has been driven over the last several years not by fundamental strength, but by QE and a lack of global yield,» BofAML credit strategist Michael Contopoulos and others said in a note to clients.

Performance for class B, C, M, R, and Y shares prior to their inception is derived from the historical performance of class A shares, adjusted for the applicable sales charge (or CDSC) and, except for class Y shares, the higher operating expenses for such shares (with the exception of Putnam Tax - Free High Yield Fund and Putnam AMT - Free Municipal Fund, which are based on the historical performance of classPerformance for class B, C, M, R, and Y shares prior to their inception is derived from the historical performance of class A shares, adjusted for the applicable sales charge (or CDSC) and, except for class Y shares, the higher operating expenses for such shares (with the exception of Putnam Tax - Free High Yield Fund and Putnam AMT - Free Municipal Fund, which are based on the historical performance of classperformance of class A shares, adjusted for the applicable sales charge (or CDSC) and, except for class Y shares, the higher operating expenses for such shares (with the exception of Putnam Tax - Free High Yield Fund and Putnam AMT - Free Municipal Fund, which are based on the historical performance of classperformance of class B shares).

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Higher rates effected performance, but nominal returns were still positive because eventually investors were able to make up for the price losses through the increases in yield.

IBM's high dividend yield may not seem as appealing given the company's recent performance.

There are of course high yield muni funds, but they tend to be smaller in terms of AUM and have had some performance hiccups (Puerto Rico) which have curtailed investor inflows.

Exhibit 1: Preliminary Performance of Income Strategy Versus High Yield, Equity Indices, Through 4/27/181

Last week, the Income Strategy advanced 0.59 %, outperforming both the Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Master II Index's -0.37 % decline and the S&P 500's flat performance (Exhibit 1).

If you're an income investor, you're looking for stocks that have higher - than - average dividends and dividend yields, a steady track record of paying out dividends, stable performance, solid reputations, and rising dividends year over year.

These stocks generally offer competitive yield and upside potential through capital appreciation, and they have historically delivered attractive performance in rising rate environments relative to the highest yielding stocks.

Stocks with a history of consistently growing their dividends have historically tended to perform well and exhibit less volatility in a rising rate environment, while high yielding dividends, often considered «bond - like proxies,» have tended to be more vulnerable (due to their high debt levels) and have historically followed bond performance when rates rise.

Performance for class B, C, M, R, T1, and Y shares prior to their inception is derived from the historical performance of class A shares, adjusted for the applicable sales charge (or CDSC) and, except for class Y and T1 shares, the higher operating expenses for such shares (with the exception of Putnam Tax - Free High Yield Fund and Putnam AMT - Free Municipal Fund, which are based on the historical performance of classPerformance for class B, C, M, R, T1, and Y shares prior to their inception is derived from the historical performance of class A shares, adjusted for the applicable sales charge (or CDSC) and, except for class Y and T1 shares, the higher operating expenses for such shares (with the exception of Putnam Tax - Free High Yield Fund and Putnam AMT - Free Municipal Fund, which are based on the historical performance of classperformance of class A shares, adjusted for the applicable sales charge (or CDSC) and, except for class Y and T1 shares, the higher operating expenses for such shares (with the exception of Putnam Tax - Free High Yield Fund and Putnam AMT - Free Municipal Fund, which are based on the historical performance of classperformance of class B shares).

For Putnam Tax - Free High Yield Fund and Putnam AMT - Free Municipal Fund, performance for class M shares prior to their inception is derived from the historical performance of class B shares (inception 9/8/85), adjusted for the applicable sales charge.

The Fund seeks to track the performance of an index that measures the investment return of common stocks of companies that are characterized by high dividend yield.

The Index measures the performance of a selected group of equity securities issued by companies that have provided relatively high dividend yields on a consistent basis over time.

Putting aside the performance of bonds during the bear market beginning in 1980 (both because the starting yields on Treasuries were so high but also because the bear market was relatively mild as the decline began from relatively low levels of valuation), what's interesting about the above chart is how dependably bonds protected a portfolio during equity bear markets.

If you look at Page 3 of C's Y - 9 performance report, you'll see that C's yield on loans is 2 % higher than the large bank peer group, yet the bank has a spread on earning assets half a point lower than other large banks.

BofA Merrill US High Yield Index: Tracks the performance of U.S. dollar denominated below investment grade corporate debt publicly issued in the U.S. domestic market.

Risk appetite should recover, leading to strong performances from higher - yielding currencies, along with currencies of the faster - growing economies, he says.

The graph below shows the performance of Treasuries, equities and high yield over the past year.

However, the result was not a true reflection of the company's performance as it actually had a very strong year with cotton crop yields as high as 15 bales per hectare — well above the top 20 per cent of Australian growers.

In 2014 field trials of the new High Oleic Hemp are being rolled out across Europe in order to establish agronomic performance and yield under a range of environmental conditions in advance of launching a commercial crop.

Soybean farmers in the United States can choose from a «candy store» of hundreds of varieties of soybean seed — high - yielding seed with proven performance traits for every region and latitude.

Soybean farmers in Africa may either only have access to a few seed varieties with an unimpressive yield potential, or a few high - yielding varieties for which no performance data exists for their latitude and altitude.

Using high - performance computing and genetic engineering to boost the photosynthetic efficiency of plants offers the best hope of increasing crop yields enough to feed a planet expected to have 9.5 billion people on it by 2050, researchers report in the journal Cell.

Changing the configuration to a high - performance, tandem solar cell connected in tandem yielded a conversion efficiency to hydrocarbons and oxygenates exceeding 5 percent at 1 - sun illumination.

The comparison of theoretical and experimental results motivates researchers to conduct additional higher - accuracy calculations and measurements that yield a more complete understanding of the materials and how their structure and composition lead to remarkable photoelectrochemical performance.

In 2015, a team led by the University of Michigan's Sharon Glotzer used high - performance computing at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory [ORNL] to study melting in two - dimensional (2 - D) systems, a problem that could yield insights into surface interactions in materials important to technologies like solar panels, as well as into the mechanism behind three - dimensional melting.

We have pioneered studies demonstrating that low - yielding wild and exotic Oryza species harbor genes and quantitative trait loci (QTL) that can be used to enhance the performance of modern, high - yielding rice cultivars.

Performance Plants Inc. has key technologies that achieve higher and more consistent crop yields through improved heat tolerance, drought tolerance and reduced water requirements.

PPI announces an important crop performance target in the development of drought tolerant and high - yielding cotton with collaborative partner Bayer Crop Science using PPI «sYield Protection Technology (YPT ®).

A high performance standard, yielding high rates of public school failure, will only confirm left wing fears that the Common Core is a Trojan horse for privatization.

The scaling of high - performing CMOs provides one of the highest levels of return and leverage for philanthropic funds, particularly when you consider that CMOs tend to deliver much higher student achievement than the local district; these schools will continue to serve students in a high - quality way over time; and there are few investments in K — 12 that have consistently yielded this level of performance.

Interim testing that yields growth measures predictive of performance on high stakes tests and aligned with state standards

Do take a read, and play along and see if you can predict which state will yield higher test performance in the end.

Edward J. Dirkswager and Kim Farris - Berg make the case that, if high - performing cultures are multifaceted in nature, then sticking to «accountability» alone as a means for improvement won't yield high performance.

If we are using such student performances for high - stakes decision making, we will need to make sure that the determinations are valid (that we measure what we mean to measure) and reliable (that the measure will yield the same results on repeated trials).

These critiques point out that the methods for constructing the levels are flawed, that the levels demand unreasonably high performance, and that they yield results that are not corroborated by other measures.

Focusing on both principal performance standards and research - based, high - yield strategies, Dr. Jan Rozelle (2012) and her colleagues developed several teacher observation and feedback tools to give principals the opportunity to assess the variety of research - based teacher behaviors exhibited during an observation, as well as make anecdotal comments.

A series of «yes» or «pass» statements for each indicator yields a summative classification of high performance.

The 2009 model - year features a new dual exhaust system yields a more powerful sound while also boosting horsepower to 265 (up from 263); standard high intensity discharge (HID) head lamps sharpen front styling and aid nighttime visibility, and standard Active Stability Control (ASC) enhances driving safety and performance.

High - performance TwinPower Turbo 3.0 liter engine yields 454 hp, 442 lb - ft, 0 - 60 mph of 3.8 seconds (preliminary) and a top - speed of 174 mph.

I developed this mix to illustrate you can approximate or slightly exceed the performance of intermediates, but with a higher yield and similar volatility.

The S&P 500 High Yield Corporate Bond Index performance behaved similarly returning 3.43 % for March, which was the index's largest return since a 3.86 % return in October, 2011.