Not exact matches
At some point, provided that dividend is
safe and investors are convinced it is going to be maintained, the dividend
yield on the stock itself is going to be so attractive that it brings in buyers from the sidelines, people who otherwise can not stand to
see the
yield right there in front of them without doing something about it.
Our bottom line: Persistent risk aversion not only suppresses rates across the
yield curve but raises the premium on assets
seen as the most
safe and liquid.
While much of the outflows so far have been a result of investors switching out of high
yield into
safer money - market and government bond funds, Gutteridge believes we have
seen the bulk of the selling.
A bond issuer such as the UK or US government is
seen as very
safe, however a heavily - indebted company would be far riskier - investors demand a higher
yield to invest in this sort of company.
Read on to
see which
yields are still
safe, and which you should stay away from.
Some governments like the United States and Canada are
seen as
safe havens and attract funds despite low
yields.
I've been burned a few times on REITs, so I
see this as a
safer way to play them, lowering the
yield but also the risk.
By comparison,
safer 10 year US Treasury bonds have
seen yields drop by 40bps and have returned 5.17 % year to date.
We
see a similar willingness to pay excessively high valuations for «
safe», income producing assets in the behavior of the 10 - year treasury
yield with the
yield falling from 5 % in 2007 to 3 % in 2013 to just 1.5 % today.
The Atlantic is now full of oil the Pacific is now filling up of radiation, GM contamination everywhere and the destruction of higher
yield, more environmentally
safe methods of farming (organic) and its replacement with of Big Agra * patented * nutrition less crap instead (in the name of «codex alimentarius» —
see my blog etc)....
From what I
see here in Asia, the interest in good
yields remains strong and the demand for
safe quality assets is high as well.
@Shital Thakkar As long as the US is
seen as a
safe haven for foreign money, I think
yields will continue to drop.
@Sam Van Horebeek, referencing «From what I
see here in Asia, the interest in good
yields remains strong and the demand for
safe quality assets is high as well.