Continued active issuance, which added to supply, and the same energy names that were affected by the drop in oil prices in the high -
yield index combined to detract from the performance of the leveraged loan sector.
Not exact matches
We made a bunch of good buys earlier this year,
combined with some higher
yielding securities (REIT ETFs) and some «value» based
indexes make for some pretty good dividends / distributions.
The best return of 814 % was achieved by
combining the earnings
yield with the 6 - month price
index.
The best combination was
combining the 12 - month price
index with the companies with the highest earnings
yield, using the past 12 months earnings.
The higher
yielding sectors of Energy, Materials, Telecommunications and Utilities
combine for a weight of 24 % of the
index and each sector has seen robust performance in 2016 so far, The two leading sectors are the S&P 500 Energy Corporate Bond Index returning over 16 % year - to - date and the S&P 500 Materials Corporate Bond Index returning over
index and each sector has seen robust performance in 2016 so far, The two leading sectors are the S&P 500 Energy Corporate Bond
Index returning over 16 % year - to - date and the S&P 500 Materials Corporate Bond Index returning over
Index returning over 16 % year - to - date and the S&P 500 Materials Corporate Bond
Index returning over
Index returning over 14 %.
The
Index is comprised of the 100 companies with the best
combined rank of dividend payments and net stock buybacks, which are the key components of shareholder
yield.
In a world of elusive alpha and popularity of passive
index investing, the path to enhanced returns lies through
combining socially responsible and impact investing with another factor, such as dividend
yield of value, according to analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
BTW, this treatment of using additive or multiplicative
indices has a long history in Russian geochemistry, where the objective is to
combine weighted concentrations of many elements / compounds analysed in soils or rocks, to see if they
yield a direction to a concentrated source.