I'll give you a scoop right away; the high dividend
yield portfolio even beat my «DSR four stocks portfolio».
I'll give you a scoop right away; the high dividend
yield portfolio even beat my «DSR four stocks portfolio».
Not exact matches
According to Research Affiliates,
even a 14 percent increase in volatility in a 60/40
portfolio would not
yield 5 percent over that same timeframe.
Even with low
yields and rising interest rates, bonds still tend to do their job by dampening volatility and minimizing losses for the overall
portfolio.
Even extending this
portfolio back a decade, which includes the financial crisis, it would have
yielded an investor a 7.7 % annual return.
Even if you have a $ 500,000 dividend stock
portfolio yielding 3 % that's only $ 15,000 a year.
If you are the kind of income investor who's happy with dividends that are steady and can grow year after year, or
even decades, and don't care as much about
yields — 3M
yields 2.3 % currently — 3M is a right fit for your
portfolio.
While some investors choose to go it alone and select individual stocks for the income portion of their
portfolio, the beauty of high
yield ETFs is that they spread the individual company risk across several issues, often across sectors, and sometimes,
even across countries.
Even if you assume some widening of spreads and a lower total return, there is still a case to be made for including high
yield in
portfolios.
Given the huge opportunity cost of allocating to cash or bonds at current
yield levels,
even generally optimistic return assumptions for stocks are enough to keep
portfolio level returns near 0 % real.
I don't expect bond
yields to rise sharply, but as the last few weeks have demonstrated,
even a modest rise in
yields will inflict some pain on
portfolios.
Eventually I will begin focusing on higher
yielding stocks (and
even some preferred stock) in my retirement
portfolio to help provide the income I will need in retirement.
In a world where finding
yield is a challenge,
even a looming rate hike isn't enough to get investors particularly excited about their bond
portfolios.
Thanks to lackluster global growth, and rock - bottom interest rates in the United States — and
even negative rates in other parts of the world — investors face the choice of either accepting lower income or increasing risk in their bond
portfolios in the search for
yield.
Even a much more conservative
portfolio yielding a 4 - percent annual return would mean you'd have more than $ 150,000 after 40 years.
Even with the stock paying a historically - high
yield of 3.8 % right now, a million - dollar
portfolio at that
yield would pay you just $ 38,000 a year.
But beyond this,
even if
yields do rise modestly, a well - bought
portfolio of REITs and MLPs can offer something that a standard bond
portfolio can not: an income stream that rises over time.
Even the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (NYSE: $ VIG), a core long - term holding in my ETF
portfolios — barely
yields 2 %, and this is a dividend - focused product.
Yet,
even here, the evidence against adding high -
yield bonds to one's
portfolio is powerful.
It is invested primarily in the credit market, not so much in government bonds because government bond
yields are so low, but we're looking for absolute returns
even if interest rates go up, so some of the
portfolio, a significant piece of it actually, is floating rate, so if interest rates go up, you just get higher cash flows, which will support higher returns, and the rest of the
portfolio is in relatively short maturity bonds, which will have some price volatility and if there's bad market conditions, will have temporary losses, so the goal is to offer something that is absolute returns.
Jeffrey Gundlach: Flexible
yield was designed about four, five years ago to offer investors a place where they could hopefully have some success
even if interest rates rise, so it's a relatively short maturity type of
portfolio.
CDs can increase your cash
yield in a
portfolio, but
even a high
yield CD does not offer very much growth at all.
-- 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?
Even though I am a fan of the 10/10 rule of investing which focuses on the growth of a dividend stock, a high
yield dividend stock (or income trust) can have a part in a
portfolio.
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.
Even with the Kimberly - Clark's dividend
yield climbing to a 52 - week high of 3.4 % (and well above its 5 - year average of 3.1 %), a million - dollar
portfolio at that
yield would pay you just $ 34,000 a year.
On the other hand, dividend investors raise strong points: — 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?
Besides,
even if bond
yields do rise, as they will eventually, you'll still be relying mostly on the stocks in your
portfolio for long - term growth.
Besides, as this research shows,
even at today's low
yields bonds remain an effective way to hedge equity risks and diversify your
portfolio.
This kind of performance chasing & lack of diversification is almost guaranteed to
yield inferior returns —
even if you can match the longer term return of a more diversified
portfolio, you'll still suffer far more painful levels of volatility.
Plus, it offers well - diversified
portfolios that hold a variety of assets, from large - company stocks (U.S. and foreign) to small - company stocks, U.S. and foreign bonds, high -
yield debt, and
even gold.
All of the above is true
even if the current
yield of your
portfolio flat - lines, as it probably will (due to the increasing dollar value of your
portfolio).
In doing so, they have effectively made that fund's TIPS
portfolio more a bet on break -
even inflation per se rather than on TIPS that suffer from a rise in real
yields: precisely the trade proposed here.
For example, say I built a $ 200k stock
portfolio that had an average
yield of 5 % (easy at current prices,
even with blue chips), and then purchased a $ 200k rental property with cash that
yielded 7.5 % after all costs (easy to do in the US right now, but also possible in certain Canadian cities like Hamilton or Kitchener).
«While a student at Berkeley in the late 1960s, Mr. Milken came across empirical support for his hunch that a
portfolio of these high -
yield bonds would outperform an investment - grade
portfolio,
even taking into account the higher likelihood of default....
I've targeted an 8 %
yield across this group of stocks — a critical number to reach, but one that many retirement
portfolios don't
even come close to touching.
Sam starts off saying, «
Even if you have a $ 500,000 dividend stock
portfolio yielding 3 % that's only $ 15,000 a year.»
If you are making independence decisions based on the income generated by your
portfolio then the current
yield (and
even market value) of your
portfolio becomes less important.
If your break -
even rate was 16.67 % as in our example, and you diversify half of your
portfolio into «safer» assets such as bonds
yielding 2 %, that means the other half of your
portfolio has to generate a crazy impossible return year after year in a compounding manner just to break
even, not to build any wealth!
If you donâ $ ™ t mind taking on
even more risk, you can spice up your
portfolio with high -
yield bonds issued by companies with weaker balance sheets.
Every investor will have days where they will have their head in their hands, like I did managing the huge corporate bond
portfolio in September 2002, where I said to the high
yield manager one
evening as we were leaving work, «This can't keep going on like like this, right?