Also keep in mind that yield-hunters flock to the Australian dollar, but be careful.
But perhaps most important has been the growth of complex products that appeal to yield-hungry investors.
It has also helped that yield-hungry investors have been pouring money into emerging markets.
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And as yield-sensitive investments, MLPs are a no-brainer in a world of zero interest rates.
The deciding investment metric is their yield-to-worst call as several of these preferreds trade above call prices.
Indonesia's central bank, for example, has stopped selling three-month notes, which yield-hungry foreigners were eagerly snapping up.
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Yield-seeking investors are trying to balance the need for income generation with the desire to avoid riskier securities.
To sell its debt subject to the yield-cap, the bank will have to persuade informed investors of this.
If yield-seeking investors are piling into stocks, then bearish sellers must be exiting for them to do so.
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As bond yields come up, they compete for investment dollars from other yield-heavy investments, so the theory goes.
Now Wall Street is laying the table a third time for yield-starved investors.
Private-equity firms have been able to refinance, and yield-starved investors have given some of these deals a second life.
He popularised frequent-flyer programmes, computer-reservation systems and the yield-management systems that tell airlines how much to charge for particular seats.
Curiously the crunch has not shaken faith in two currencies favoured by yield-hungry investors: the Brazilian real and Turkish lira.
Less controversial yield-rich picks can be found among business development companies (BDCs).
Yield-seeking investors were not offered much help from the Federal Reserve yesterday.
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But investors aren't being adequately compensated for the risks they are taking, says Martin Fridson, CEO of FridsonVision, a high-yield-bond research shop.
"Apple bonds are a low-risk alternative to Treasury...bonds in this yield-grabbing environment, " said Mark MacQueen, co-founder and portfolio manager at Sage Advisory Services Ltd.
"In this yield-starved environment, this is the new fixed-income, " says Hank Smith, chief investment officer of equities at Haverford Investments, referring to dividend-paying stocks.
Only one government, Argentina's, appears to rely on this sort of mechanism (and it has balked at setting a yield-cap on the subordinated debt).
The survey also indicated that Scotland was the only part of the UK where rooms yield - the industry measure of revenue - increased.
CMOs were created when Wall Street bought mortgages, bundled them by the thousands and carved up the portfolios into securities for sale to yield-hungry investors.
Where David Miles does see a large impact from QE is in the price - and implied yield - on other assets, notably corporate bonds.
Crandall is the visionary who introduced yield-management software to commercial airlines.
The deal comes as Manhattan office-building values have been increasing as yield-hungry foreign and domestic investors have been buying more U.S. real estate in major cities.
It does mean all bookings, almost 90% over the Web, are firm credit-card sales, the flight costs determined by yield-management software familiar to any airline customer.
Also buying last week were the traditional yield-seeking investors globally, looking for outlets beyond assets at home that provide depressed returns due to artificially low interest rates.
The money is coming from yield-starved Japanese investors, pension funds, and retail investors pulling their cash out of muni funds and pouring it into bank-loan mutual funds.
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The Swiss bank also suggests yield-hungry U.S. investors look at European large capitalization stocks such as pharmaceuticals which have lagged the market but carry a higher dividend yield.
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