Sentence examples for decent yield from inspiring English sources

The bonds had a decent yield, but their real advantage was they were considered absolutely safe.

It has a decent yield of 5.6%." McDermott picks M&G Global Emerging Markets and Rathbone Global Opportunities.

Will the prospect of inflation make real estate a good investment? A. Real estate with a decent yield will do well.

"If you're in a low-return world, you want to be in something that has a decent yield and, if possible, some capital growth – and property fits that quite well, which makes it great to hold," he said.

With investors chasing anything with a decent yield, they've piled into lower quality bonds — such as "junk bonds" issued by companies with poor credit ratings, and debts issued by governments in emerging markets — greatly narrowing the interest-rate premiums that such securities normally carry.

They were attracted by the preference shares' combination of a low risk weighting and decent yield, says Ira Jersey of Credit Suisse, but have seen their prices tumble on fears that they will be wiped out if the government moves to prop the agencies up.

An ideal investment mix combines assets that have decent yields but a low correlation of returns, to minimise the chance that all go bad at once.

But as capital has flooded into property in search of decent yields, the obvious investments are starting to look relatively expensive again.

Pension funds and other institutional investors are on the hunt for assets generating decent yields, particularly if the returns are uncorrelated to stockmarkets.

"High-quality companies that pay high dividends and have plenty of cash flow to support those dividends have decent yields relative to bonds and a lot of potential for those dividends to grow," he said.

Instead of focusing on stocks with the highest yields, "what we're trying to do is to find growth stocks — companies with strong top-line sales growth, strong cash flow and healthy balance sheets — that happen to pay decent yields," said Roger J. Sit, another co-manager of the fund.