Dividends have accounted for well over half of the long-term real return on big-company stocks.
One has to do the mental math: nominal return minus inflation is real return.
From 1926 through 2009, the average annual real return on that portfolio was 9.1%.
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Note that you can get a risk-free real return of 3.5% on inflation-indexed U.S. Treasurys.
Long-term corporates showed a 5.9% real return under the Republicans, meanwhile, and long-term Treasurys returned 5.6%.
Currently, however, TIPS with a 10-year maturity are offering a slightly negative real return.
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And this is all hi-tech investment with proven multipliers, so the real return is even greater.
Add that to the current dividend yield and you've got about 3.5% of real return.
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The rate of return on American index-linked government securities (also a real return) is roughly 4%.
None of the asset classes produced a positive real return in all of three of these periods .
Arnott and Bernstein look, component by component, at the total real return and arrive at a grimmer conclusion.
Add two points of real growth to even a skimpy 6% yield and you have an 8% real return.
T-Bills, gold, foreign stocks and domestic stocks all produced a positive real return in two of the three periods.
After factoring in inflation and, in the case of non-registered accounts, taxes, the real return is negligible to negative.
Five year Treasury TIPS were sold last week with a negative real return.
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In providing a real return, something you can live on, diamonds are a dud--unless you use one on a ring.
With four more years left on his extension, Sanchez is pretty much untradeable anyway, at least for any real return.
When you add earnings growth to the meager dividend yield, you get a total real return not much better than 3.5%.
Investors who took the plunge into Treasuries then earned an annual negative real return of 1.6% over the following 30 years.
Real estate had nominal negative returns in two of the three periods, and in one period it produced a positive real return.
This is why I prefer to show expected market returns on an inflation-adjusted (real return) forecasts as well as nominal return expectations.
Likewise, there was a nearly 27 year period where gold produced a negative nominal compound return and a significantly negative real return.
Treasuries also produced a positive real return in one of the periods.
Interest rates normally give lenders a 2-4% real return on their money.
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But when 5% is inflation and I have to pay another 1.9% in taxes (23.8% of my return), my real return drops to just 1.1%.
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Even if Bernanke ceases firing dollars into the bond market, yields will still have to rise to the level at which they provide a real return.
Money market funds and cash equivalents (short-term certificates of deposit, T-bills) will yield below 1.0 percent for several more years, thereby generating a negative real return.
You get a 1.6% real return, which becomes a nominal 6.6%, which translates into 4% after tax, which in turn becomes a negative 1% after inflation.
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