Investors in Real Estate Investment Trusts(REITs) are the big winners of new US tax laws. Currently dividends from REITs are taxed as ordinary income for US tax payers. This is substantially higher than taxes on qualified dividends at 10% for investments held for over one year. The ordinary income tax on REITs has also been …
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Jeffrey Kleintop at Schwab has posted a fascinating article on the dangers and returns of international and US investing using the example of a shark attack. The following is an excerpt from the article: US and International The chart below shows us what stock market shark attacks look like using the relative performance of US …
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The Dividend Yields of the world’s largest economies is shown in the chart below: Click to enlarge Source:Dividends And Buybacks: The Last Hurrah?, Global Finance Among the developed markets, Australia offers the highest dividend yield at 4.18% followed by Norway and the UK. The dividend yields of the developed markets are shown in the following …
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South Korea used to be one of the unattractive markets for dividend investors due to the low payouts by Korean firms. I have written about the low payouts in a few article before like here and here. In those articles I had suggested that income investors can avoid Korea. However decades of low payouts may …
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The worst performing sector so far this year is the consumer-staples sector. Stocks of consumer staple makers such as cereal, toothpaste, soups, etc. have been hit hard due to a variety of factors. Rising costs of commodities, higher logistics costs, cheaper store-name or generic brands, consumers’ preference for healthier options, etc. are some of the …
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