Effective yield reflects the real return on bonds, considering compounding and reinvested coupons. Understand its calculation ...

I present a hybrid investment strategy that can be implemented for improving the total return of an individual stock in a portfolio, or a portfolio of stocks. The technique is a blend of two typical ...

Many investors, especially those using a cash flow approach to spending, prefer cash dividends. From the perspective of the classical financial theory, this behavior is an anomaly. In their 1961 paper ...

Shareholder yield. Total payout. Total yield. These different labels represent the same thing—return of capital to shareholders. There are nuanced definitions to each, but the common thread is ...

This article was written by Sean Murphy, Equity Indices Product Manager and Steve Hou, PhD, Quantitative Researcher at Bloomberg. To be eligible for inclusion in the index, a company must be part of ...