Market Moves
Long-Ignored Dividends Will Rise, Says Jefferies
Stock buybacks are expected to shrink, leaving room for more payouts, the firm believes.
Tag: dividends
Asset Allocation
Highest Dividend Payers Are Biggest Losers in S&P 500
Those stocks, such as Altria and Verizon, carry the top yields, but their flagging prices negate the sweet payouts, according to Bespoke.
Asset Allocation
Dividends Romp in the 2nd Quarter, But Don’t Get Used to It
While company payouts hit a record, economic problems should slow that pace up ahead, a Janus Henderson study warns.
Asset Allocation
Good News: Dividends Bounce Back to Set Record
Sliced at the coronavirus’ outset, company payouts enjoy increases amid enlarged profits.
Asset Allocation
At Long Last, Dividends and Buybacks Are Starting to Pick Up
Companies, tightfisted on payouts since last year’s market wipeout, feel flush now, Credit Suisse says.
Pensions
Sanofi Agrees to Bolster Pension, Match Dividends with Plan Contributions
TPR pressures French biopharmaceutical company to boost UK defined benefit plan funding.
Asset Allocation
Dimon Frets Over Weak Recovery and Fintech Rivals
That’s even as the JPM chief just turned in record earnings, and bank stocks are almost recovered.
Asset Management Culture
CalSTRS Pressures Exxon to Be More Climate-Friendly, Backing Outside Directors Slate
The nation’s second-largest pension fund joins an activist investor in proxy push to elect four board members.
Op-Ed: Should Allocators Un-Core Their Core Bond Portfolio?
With yields at historic lows, longtime investor Tony Waskiewicz says investment offices might want to take another look at the allocation that used to be ‘worry free,’ but is now a source of consternation.
Market Moves
Goldman’s 10 Reasons That the Bull Market Will Resume
An array of forces will juice stocks anew and the early-September drop is just a correction, the firm argues.
Coronavirus - COVID-19
US Dividend Payments Have Worst Quarter Since 2009
Liquidity and cost control are now top priorities as dividends drop and buybacks become an ‘endangered species.’
Coronavirus - COVID-19
Alaska Spending Blueprint Drops Residents’ Oil Dividend by 38%, Gives No Direct Virus Aid
Base cause: The state’s sovereign wealth fund dropped 10% last month, as oil prices plummeted in the coronavirus crash.
Coronavirus - COVID-19
Crisis Creates New Class of High-Yielding Stocks
Leuthold’s Opsal identifies 148 of them yielding more than 4%.
Bye-Bye, Buybacks? Share Repurchases Falling 15%
Corporate fad to cash out investors is flagging, Goldman study finds.
Market Moves
S&P 500 Dividend Yield Surmounts the 30-Year Treasury
The last time that happened was during the financial crisis, Bespoke says.