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Nowadays, every bit of extra yield, or "alpha", counts.
Eking out a quarter- or half-point of extra yield may not sound like much, but this additional payout makes a difference over time.
"With corn at close to $7 per bushel the payback on that is within the same season for sure, a per cent or two of extra yield will pay for the service".
Benmosche said "it makes a big deal" at the current low rates to get that little bit of extra yield by buying mortgages directly, which is why he said AIG is talking to big banks about buying their non-agency mortgage debt.
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Then those loan packages were chopped up and sold in small pieces as corporate bonds to all kinds of institutions, who were reaching for extra yield.
Bonds might have become junk because of a deterioration in the issuing company's finances, but they did not start that way.However, in the 1970s and 1980s Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert realised there was a group of investors who were willing to take the risk of a diversified portfolio of junk bonds because of the extra yield on offer.
So far this year, investors who crave the extra yield of junk are actually worse off than they would have been in Treasuries.
For those of you who demand extra yield and spread over Treasurys or government agency bonds, take a look at the following short-term bond recommendations.
"We are more than compensated for the risk of credit-quality deterioration with extra yield," Mr. Kennedy said.
"If you go through a whole cycle, you will have gotten the extra yield because of the leverage," Mr. Cassidy said.
Argentina's borrowing costs fell to the lowest level since 2008 ahead of Boudou's announcement, with the extra yield investors demand to own Argentine bonds instead of U.S. Treasuries narrowing 17 basis points to 6.01percentt, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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