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Insights on Income: Foreign Markets are a Necessary Profit Play for Today’s Income Investor
Back in the middle 1980s, income investing for U.S. investors was pretty simple. Inflation was around 5% – roughly the same as now – but U.S. government bonds were paying close to 8%, and without going into high-risk debt issues you could find 9% with very little difficulty.
If you were an income investor, to balance those high yields, you also had to have capital appreciation, so about half your portfolio would be invested in U.S. common stocks – which, thanks to their dividend payouts, yielded a good 3%-4% themselves. Even after you paid Uncle Sam, a portfolio such as this…
14Jul2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | Continued
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