I spent a lot of times on my laptop learning about dividend growth investing, reading the blogs of my fellow bloggers, building a 35k
portfolio yielding more than 1000 $ of yearly dividend income, I went through a restructuring and ended up keeping my job, my wife was pregnant but had a miscarriage... phew... So many things can happen in a year!
Not exact matches
All told, the jump in Treasury
yields has yet to make its way into the broader economy in the form of higher borrowing costs, yet it will likely start to dampen the housing and auto markets as consumer loans become
more expensive, said Gary Cloud, a
portfolio manager of the Hennessy Equity and Income Fund.
For example, some investors may have taken on
more risk in their
portfolios in recent years by moving into lower - quality bonds or dividend stocks, in an attempt to generate additional
yield.
These behavioral finance influences can skew a
portfolio's overall allocations toward an overemphasis of potentially higher -
yielding equities that in some instances may represent
more downside risk than upside potential at current valuation levels.
This convergence of
yields has implications for the behaviour of investors: with bond
yields in different countries tending to move together, investors have found it
more difficult not only to diversify their
portfolios but to find trading opportunities.
(To learn
more about what constitutes a properly diversified stock
portfolio, see Over-Diversification
Yields Diminishing Returns.
Given the overall high
yield of my
portfolio, looking towards some
more growth oriented payers is something I'm looking towards moving forward with this
portfolio.
On a price return basis, the Safest Dividend
Yields Model
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portfolio last month.
Generally, the higher the duration, the
more the price of the bond (or the value of the
portfolio) will fall as rates rise because of the inverse relationship between bond
yield and price.
You can get over 5 % on some high
yield investments, but you may sacrifice some
portfolio diversification and take on
more return volatility.
The potential for investors unloading high - dividend - paying stocks through the Vanguard High Dividend
Yield ETF (VYM A-97), the Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF (SCHD A-92) and other high -
yielding ETFs leaves
portfolios more sensitive.
That permits advisors to express a precise fixed - income viewpoint that balances a client's
portfolio yield with his or her risk profile, says Gopaul: «Volatility is coming back now, and there's going to be
more demand there.»
Higher
yields, in turn, allow investors to earn
more income from their
portfolios.
Lower duration TIPS funds» headline
yield level may be lower, but their
portfolio impact may be
more beneficial than broad - based TIPS because they require less duration (risk) to earn that
yield,» added Mazza.
And, equally, that if you are getting say a 5 % dividend
yield on a a
portfolio of shares then the excess income is not «free» — you are taking on
more risk than you think, or perhaps the capital returns will be poor.
If banks would look at their overall
portfolio and invest money with «safer» investments (for example, infrastructure projects, with government backing), they will have lower
yields on those investments, and probably make less money, however it would be
more guaranteed money and less risk.
While bank certificates of deposit and bank money market accounts are viable alternatives in terms of
yields, money market mutual funds can be part of an investment
portfolio, which makes them much
more accessible for investors seeking liquidity.
Although decades of history have conclusively proved it is
more profitable to be an owner of corporate America (viz., stocks), rather than a lender to it (viz., bonds), there are times when equities are unattractive compared to other asset classes (think late - 1999 when stock prices had risen so high the earnings
yields were almost non-existent) or they do not fit with the particular goals or needs of the
portfolio owner.
If I compare the high
yield portfolio to the DSR
portfolio over a 12 months period, the DSR
portfolio easily win by
more than doubling the high
yield portfolio return.
When economies look rosy,
portfolio managers prefer less safe and
more profitable investments, pushing
yields and rates upward.
I've been performing the quarterly update on the
portfolios I manage and searching high and low for a bit
more yield for the bond and cash portions of the
portfolios.
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For the empire
portfolio I will focus
more on dividend and earnings growth instead of dividend
yield since my time horizon is essentially infinite.
High -
Yield bonds are a smaller portion of the typical fixed - income investment
portfolio, because they have much
more default risk.
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This will also dampen your
portfolio's volatility in the long term, without the shrivelling in its potential that you'd get if you invest significantly in bonds
yielding little
more than 4 %.
The specific
portfolios that Acorns has built have not been around long enough for us to analyze their average 1 - year, 5 - year, 10 - year, or lifetime
yields (as we typically get with
more established investment
portfolios), but I expect that this information will become available as the
portfolios age.
More importantly, this is providing an example of how bonds often are not correlated with stocks (they don't move up and down together), thus giving us the diversification benefits of including the fixed - income asset class in our
portfolios, while providing a higher
yield and higher expected return than cash.
High -
yielding stocks can provide a great boost to a
portfolio's returns, and quality dividends are much
more reliable than capital gains.
As a result, its valuation has turned disadvantageous (2 stars from Morningstar), its
yield has dropped nearly to my minimum for holding (2.6 %), and its relative size in my
portfolio sits at
more than 13 %.
In this part of my
portfolio I use
more risky fixed - income securities, as there is a defensive strategy to address the higher volatility of the high -
yield and other
more risky bond funds.
When reinvesting dividends, I try to improve the
portfolio along one or
more dimensions, such as
yield, company quality, dividend growth, dividend safety, diversification, and the like.
Although most investors diversified beyond this model and incorporated small caps, foreign stocks, high
yield bonds, and perhaps something
more exotic like REITs or commodities, a simple mix of 60 % S&P 500 and 40 % Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond is often the shorthand definition of a balanced
portfolio.
The dividend
yield of the S&P / TSX Composite Index is about a point lower than that, but it's easy enough to build a stock
portfolio that pays 4 % or
more.
Back when I was exclusively a bond manager, 2001 - 2003, which I chronicled in my series «The Education of a Corporate Bond Manager,» I successfully struggled with one concept: when do you try to add
more yield to your
portfolio, and when don't you?
Even a much
more conservative
portfolio yielding a 4 - percent annual return would mean you'd have
more than $ 150,000 after 40 years.
Meanwhile, equities can potentially generate
more income than bonds in a diversified
portfolio, since dividend
yields in many markets exceed bond
yields.
If all you wanted was a 3.6 % per year income stream, you could just buy a
portfolio of stocks that had an average dividend
yield of 3.6 % per year or
more (such as those above).
When economies look rosy,
portfolio managers prefer less safe and
more profitable investments, pushing
yields and rates upward.
More passively managed
portfolios may have much lower expense ratios, but this often corresponds to lower returns as these funds are primarily oriented toward long - term growth rather than generating the highest
yield.
-- less fees: even though ETF fees are much smaller than mutual funds, they do charge
more than holding those stocks directly —
more control: being able to select your type of
portfolio, holding stocks that you believe in and going for the stocks that you know and targeting the
yield that matches you —
more fun?
For example, some of these candidates might be appropriate to boost the
yield of an existing
portfolio while others might be
more appropriate for investors seeking a higher total long - term return.
The site also includes 11 model
portfolios — encompassing expected and historical returns and risk, tracking error, CAPE ratios, inflation expectations,
yield curves, GDP growth rates, commodity term structures, and
more.
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