But, that same adjustment to another person might yield lower quality.
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Now, an adjustment to one person might yield higher quality.
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The comparable muni yield for such quality is 3.55%, so the preferreds provide a 40% to 62% higher after-tax return.
Older, higher quality vines yield less fruit, but the fruit commands a better price.
The implicit hint is that inflation and fiscal stimulus can yield a low-quality growth that is unsustainable.
Investing is often all about trade-offs and lately plenty of income investors have been trading off quality for yield.
First is pension liabilities: under the new rules, a company's future obligations will be calculated using the yield on high-quality corporate bonds.
Through its unyielding insistence on the highest quality to yield the best value for its members, Costco has indeed earned the trust of its members.
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This means that for investors seeking income-oriented opportunities with daily liquidity, a well discriminated, quality high yield portfolio remains one of the most attractive investments across all fixed income markets.
Dozens of official reports, plans and national strategies, and promises of technical help, have failed to overcome a vicious circle: most herders are poor, have too few animals, and cannot afford the improvements in breeding, pasture management and shearing needed to raise fibre quality and yield.
Additionally, many mutual funds have been forced to sell their high quality, high yield bonds because of redemptions.
In order of popularity, respondents said they owned high-quality corporate, high-yield, international (including emerging market), Treasury (including TIPS) and municipal bonds and bond funds.
Ask everyone involved to rate decisions in terms of quality, speed, execution (yield), and the effort involved.
Taking this distortion to yet another level, compared to high yield bonds, blue-chip, high quality stocks look incredibly cheap!
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Of course, second-lien debt is a niche product for issuers that require higher leverage than is usually available in the first-lien market, but that in many cases are locked out of the regular-way high-yield bond market because of size, credit quality, or complexity.
Managers with the ability to adapt to change, with the ability to manage portfolio risk factors such as yield, duration, allocation weighting, and credit quality, can find success in multiple environments.
U.S. farmers paid more for high quality Genuity reduced refuge corn and Roundup ready 2 yield soybean seeds as global food prices hit historic highs.
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Just take a look at what happened to the SPDR Barclays High Yield bond ETF ( JNK) compared to the high-quality Vanguard Total Bond ETF ( BND) during the heart of the last recession.
It has hardly surprising that the Real will become the poster child of the hot money flow in the FX market, after all it does offer a yield return that is over 10 times what can be found on quality Euro Zone debt.
There you get a quality company, obviously a Swiss-based investment bank, in our mind a quality company with pretty strong capital ratios and a generous dividend yield.
Ensuring the quality of Medicaid data undoubtedly can help fraud-detection programs yield a positive return on investment, and also can assist the government in its efforts to detect those who are committing fraud.
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When reviewing these various income producing strategies, I would recommend not only focussing on current yield information but also taking into consideration longer term distribution histories, credit quality, tax treatments and distribution policies.
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There is the further issue of the quality of coal, since the majority of the world reserve is of lower thermal quality than the top-grade anthracitic coal, and will yield less energy per tonne either burned directly or in the form of syngas in ICGC plants.
Improvements have been made in image quality with the newer OLED technology, but high manufacturing costs, yield limitations and limited lifetime make it expensive and challenging for all but the smallest devices.
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"There's been a general flight to quality, so very few people want to take a chance on high-yield bonds right now, " said Cecilia L. Gondor, executive vice president of Thomas J.
The company makes fluid power systems for industrial, mobile and aircraft equipment, as well as electrical systems and components for power quality, Its ROE comes up to 16.6% and its dividend yield is a solid 3.3%.
Although we know the 10 year treasury yield is artificially low right now, we still feel like REITs are not overvalued given the higher quality of REIT portfolios today (which would warrant lower relative cap rates), and given the lower dividend payout ratios (currently 74 percent of AFFO versus historical average of 82 percent).
Does this mean that high yield bonds are over-valued? (likely), that Treasury bonds are over-valued, since high yield bonds are priced as a spread above Treasuries? (very likely), and that high quality stocks in a universe of mostly overvalued liquid assets are relatively cheap? (likely).
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