Good direct CDs seem to be the best ticket for that, considering that my average
yield premium over Treasuries of same maturity is over 1 percentage point (e.g., CD at 3 % if Treasury yield at 2 %) for CDs bought over the last 6.5 years.
For this reason, GSE debt obligations often carry
a yield premium over Treasury securities with comparable maturities.
We believe this positioning buildup led to an April break in the usual positive correlation between the USD and the U.S.
yield premium over other developed markets.
Not exact matches
For, with long - term taxable bonds
yielding 5 percent and long - term tax - exempt bonds 3 percent, a business operation that could utilize equity capital at 10 percent clearly was worth some
premium to investors
over the equity capital employed.
(This rate is the difference between the
yield on bonds that include an inflation risk
premium and those on inflation protected bonds; once you «net out» the latter, what's left
over is inflation expectations.)
The share price is depressed a small amount but options
premiums and the underlying
yield of 12.7 % have kept me in the black for
over a year.
Also, the
yield on the 10 - year Treasury note was
over 6 % 15 years ago versus roughly 2 % today, making the risk
premium of stocks versus bonds much higher today than it was then.
Despite their high real
yields, the
premiums over face value would erode in the event of deflation (though the securities do not mature at less than par in any event).
If you wanted a little more call
premium you could sell the 28 strike instead of the 27 strike, and get 7.3 % annualized
yield from the call
premium, plus the 8.4 % dividend for a total
yield over 15 %.
In developed markets, the right to a certain return of capital is actually costing anywhere from — 1.5 % to — 0.5 % per year in real purchasing power.1 On the other hand, real
yields in many of the larger emerging market economies reside solidly in positive territory — returning anywhere from about a 1 %
premium over inflation in Mexico and Russia to more than 6 % in the case of Brazil.
The stock has surged nearly 30 %
over the last six months and trades at a
premium multiple and dividend
yield relative to its history.
Corporate debt
yields include a corporate risk
premium over treasury
yields.
The options
yield over 10 % / year in call
premium income.
Also, the
yield on the 10 - year Treasury note was
over 6 % 15 years ago versus roughly 2 % today, making the risk
premium of stocks versus bonds much higher today than it was then.
Seemingly, this behavior might be construed as not leading to outperformance
over time, because every spike in option - adjusted spread (OAS), a standard measure of the
yield premium required by high -
yield bondholders, would tend to eventually retract, and gains could easily be wiped out by symmetrical losses on the other side.
Also, like the Fortune column points out, the thesis that interest rates will inevitably rise, so bonds are a bad idea but stocks are now undervalued because of wide
premiums over bonds is seriously flawed because if bond
yields rise, it will be bad for bonds but the equity
premium will drop as well, so it may not be necessarily good for stocks.
It's obvious that CDs have done and will do better than Treasuries of the same maturity if held to maturity, since the
yield premiums have been very rich most of the time
over the last 6.5 years, and currently are quite good.
Discounts and
premiums on securities purchased are amortized
over the life of the respective securities using the effective
yield method.
With no opportunity to reinvest distributions, an investment at a 20 %
premium will
yield an average expected return of 8.3 %
over the long term.
The average junk bond risk
premium is 4.55 percentage points
over comparable Treasury
yields, and this has helped buffer high
yields somewhat from rising Treasury rates.
Given that those bonds
yield a 1.5 percentage point
premium over government bonds (which have a default risk close to zero), a corporate bond investor is likely to be left with a one percentage point advantage
over government bonds after accounting for the risk of loss.
If a less specific group of bonds can be delivered to create a new unit, i.e., the bonds must satisfy certain constraints on issuer percentages, issue sizes, duration [interest rate sensitivity], convexity [sensitivity to interest rate sensitivity], sector percentages, option - adjusted spread /
yield, etc., then arbitrage can proceed more rapidly, and
premiums over NAV should be smaller.
I re-ran the analysis that Michael and I did in our initial article, but I switched to the new capital market assumptions I use which allow for increasing bond
yields over time while keeping a fixed average equity
premium over bonds.
Thus, while TIPS
yields are at historically low levels, TIPS continue to look like a clear choice
over nominal Treasuries in relative terms, because investors aren't paying a
premium for unexpected inflation.
You can even find better prices when you book in advance as once the resorts reach a certain occupancy level they then put in place «
yield management» and the prices begin to increase as the occupancy increases
over the busy peak periods and they then charge what is called a «rack rate» or
premium rate
Invested
over those same two decades, the difference in
premiums could
yield more than $ 130,000 in savings.
For anti-inflammatory and non-narcotic medications, these are less severe and will
yield lower
premiums; the same can be said for any medication bought
over the counter such as ibuprofen.
Your statement regarding the disclosure of «
Yield Spread
Premiums» by Mortgage Brokers is far
over due.