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portfolio of high yield IT's

General discussions about equity high-yield income strategies
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Re: portfolio of high yield IT's

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Postby Eboli » July 21st, 2021, 7:47 pm

I cannot answer the OP's original question as I do not understand the underlying reasons for 10 (ten!!! with £60K is a questionable ask) with maximum yield (that, I regret, seems a seriously short-term requirement). Others have already suggested a plethora of trusts that might continue to yield a sufficient amount.

If, however, the aim is sustainable long-term Dorisian neglect a better construction might be 3 trusts yielding a somewhat more modest yield which are likely to sustain real growth in income over decades. If that were the ask, perhaps I would choose three: MRC, MYI and BNKR - though there are many other fitting these profiles.

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Re: portfolio of high yield IT's

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Postby scrumpyjack » July 21st, 2021, 8:16 pm

John Baron has an article in last week's Investors Chronicle on his IT Portfolio
https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/id ... fensively/
Don't know if its behind a paywall, as I subscribe

Also he used to hold SMT as one holding in his Income porfolio! The reason was to have balance overall, so perhaps you don't need to only have high yield ITs in such a portfolio. What matters is the overall mix.

ps apologies for the split infinitive!

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Re: portfolio of high yield IT's

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Postby AshleyW » July 21st, 2021, 8:18 pm

The AIC publishes their dividend heroes of Investment Trusts that have increased their dividends for at least 20 years. Many of these pay quite low dividends and out of all the hundreds of ITs there are only a few that yield 3.5% or more and maintained or increased dividends post 2008 crash. The AIC is a good starting point to choose by yield and then 5-year dividend growth but then some research is needed to check dividend history to find those that have increased or at the very least maintained dividends during the hard times. The great advantage of ITs is that the annual accounts are usually available on the IT´s website and most give 10-year dividend histories so just by checking out 2 published accounts you can get the 20-year dividend history. It is possible to select 8 to 10 trusts which offer geographical and sector diversification, good dividends, and consistency in payouts.

I don´t believe that there are any index/passive investments that can offer the same yield and dividend stability/growth as ITs - but it has to be accepted that these are actively managed products so it's not possible to buy and hold. Managers change or change their style as we saw with Neil Woodford and previously reliable trusts such as Temple Bar are revamped and their dividends reset to a lower level.

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Re: portfolio of high yield IT's

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Postby Arborbridge » July 21st, 2021, 8:34 pm

Eboli wrote:I cannot answer the OP's original question as I do not understand the underlying reasons for 10 (ten!!! with £60K is a questionable ask) with maximum yield (that, I regret, seems a seriously short-term requirement). Others have already suggested a plethora of trusts that might continue to yield a sufficient amount.

If, however, the aim is sustainable long-term Dorisian neglect a better construction might be 3 trusts yielding a somewhat more modest yield which are likely to sustain real growth in income over decades. If that were the ask, perhaps I would choose three: MRC, MYI and BNKR - though there are many other fitting these profiles.

Eb.


You suggest three, only THREE! ITs for £60,000 of modest yield. Well, that's risky ;)

The OP mentions high yield, and from that we may deduce he needs the yield to provide income, as I do too. No point suggesting low or medium yield in that case. And I suspect that by wanting a larger number than you would countenance, he may want to spread the risk across a bigger spectrum.

Having said that, there's not a lot wrong with the three you suggest: they may not provide enough income though.

BTW, I see no reason why one should not have more than your three - there's nothing to lose by a bigger number, and it would reduce the IT specific risk.

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Re: portfolio of high yield IT's

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Postby Arborbridge » July 21st, 2021, 8:43 pm

AshleyW wrote:I don´t believe that there are any index/passive investments that can offer the same yield and dividend stability/growth as ITs - but it has to be accepted that these are actively managed products so it's not possible to buy and hold. Managers change or change their style as we saw with Neil Woodford and previously reliable trusts such as Temple Bar are revamped and their dividends reset to a lower level.


but it has to be accepted that these are actively managed products so it's not possible to buy and hold.

Just to be a bit pendantic here, it is possible to hold for many, many years. You pick an obvious outlier in Woodford (you are using a man of straw argument there, in my view), but many ITs have been run by the same manager or team for decades - witness City of London or Murray International, Finsbury or Temple Bar. Eventually, Temple Bar did change its manager after decades of success as the market morphed, but nevertheless one could have had the same manager for a long spell - and even now it's far from clear that the character of the IT has changed significantly as it still has a similar brief.

Although managers do change, I would say one can discount this as a worry to have uppermost in one's mind.

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Re: portfolio of high yield IT's

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Postby thebarns » July 22nd, 2021, 2:03 am

Padders -

My list of 40 ITs/REITs do consist of a number of niche areas and I have not found a tracker/passive strategy that will produce that yield with those constituent areas.

The closest funds are VT RM Alternative Income or Jupiter Monthly Alternative Income which have a number of these holdings but produce a smaller yield after their own and platform charges.

I bought some of them at distressed valuations over the last year and the current 5.6-5.7% yield is on current valuations.

So I think it is difficult to find a passive or tracker for these holdings - yes I do double or triple or quadruple up in certain of the areas, but I am fine with doing that as the transaction costs are immaterial given the size of the overall portfolio and the length of time I intend to hold.

I do this as I am not going to pick which of GRID/GSF or IHR/THRL or AEWU/SREI or GABI/RMDL or NCYF/BIPS etc is going to do better or worse and am happy taking the overall average yield.

I did once hold IUKD which was the high yield U.K. ETF and found it to be fairly useless.

For your info, I do hold other chunks of a portfolio, part of which includes a reasonable sized holding in a general world tracker so I am not knocking trackers per se, just in this particular area of my portfolio.

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Re: portfolio of high yield IT's

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Postby monabri » July 22nd, 2021, 2:48 pm

thebarns wrote:I did once hold IUKD which was the high yield U.K. ETF and found it to be fairly useless.



I'd agree with that.

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Re: portfolio of high yield IT's

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Postby gnawsome » July 22nd, 2021, 4:30 pm

thebarns wrote:Padders -

I did once hold IUKD which was the high yield U.K. ETF and found it to be fairly useless.



SNAP (but still holding ~ hoping)

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Re: portfolio of high yield IT's

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Postby Wuffle » July 23rd, 2021, 10:55 am

I have a similar sized pf.
I have chosen to fanny about because I cant help myself and have nearer to a dozen choices.
It costs me in multiple transactions.
For me, this is cheap entertainment, I am familiar with the arguments for why this is a bad idea.

I would point out to anybody with a small portfolio the option of BMPI (and BMPG, though not relevant here).
BMO Managed Portfolio Trust in income and growth flavours to give full titles.
It holds all the likely candidates and then more.
Monthly factsheet for top ten, interim report for the full pf.
Yes, you are charged a second time for management but that is at least a choice.

W.

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Re: portfolio of high yield IT's

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Postby Eboli » July 23rd, 2021, 8:00 pm

Arb chastised me:

The OP mentions high yield, and from that we may deduce he needs the yield to provide income, as I do too. No point suggesting low or medium yield in that case.


No, the OP mentioned maximum yield and
sustainable high yield,
whatever that may be. You cannot begin to answer this requirements unless you know the background: e.g., sustainable for how long; what tolerance of sustainability; is it only income sustainability? We're getting seriously close to the debate about Bo8 v Bo7 and we do not need to rehearse those differences again.

As for 3 v 10 on £60K I do, on reflection, see that I may be affecting a nearness to one extreme. However, too often here we see endless and needless diversification of holdings in ITs as if there is some unwritten necessity to hold an IT in whatever category that has already pre-set. By all means diversify where you are deliberately taking punts in management and style (SMT, comes to mind), but please do not try to argue that a similar diversification is achieved between EDIN and CTY for example.

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Re: portfolio of high yield IT's

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Postby Arborbridge » July 23rd, 2021, 8:45 pm

Eboli wrote:As for 3 v 10 on £60K I do, on reflection, see that I may be affecting a nearness to one extreme. However, too often here we see endless and needless diversification of holdings in ITs as if there is some unwritten necessity to hold an IT in whatever category that has already pre-set. By all means diversify where you are deliberately taking punts in management and style (SMT, comes to mind), but please do not try to argue that a similar diversification is achieved between EDIN and CTY for example.

Eb.

but please do not try to argue that a similar diversification is achieved between EDIN and CTY for example.


Well, I hope everyone agrees about that. However, that doesn't mean that ITs fishing in the same pond come up with the same result, not that having a couple of strings to the same bow (to mix metaphors) isn't a good idea to cut IT manager specific risk.

As it happens, I do have both Edin and CTY and I can't say I regret it. It turns out that EDIN has been doing rather better, but there's no way I could have predicted that back in 1990.

I have to admit that I have been notorious at hedging my bets and putting my eggs in many baskets, so I have a bias in that direction.

I think that's enough metaphor for one evening :lol:
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Re: portfolio of high yield IT's

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Postby richfool » July 24th, 2021, 10:28 am

Personally I don't mind some overlap of holdings (through holding trusts targetting the same sector). Different managers may take different views of when to buy and sell those holdings, which helps to further spread the risk.

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Re: portfolio of high yield IT's

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Postby dundas666 » July 26th, 2021, 1:24 pm

I think the overlap question depends on the sector, for example a lot of the ITs specialising in small/medium companies don't have similar portfolios so owning a number of them wouldn't create any duplication.

On the other hand many of the Asian ITs have similar holdings like Taiwan Semiconductor, Tencent and Samsung, and I think many of the UK income ITs have similar holdings too, so not much point holding different ones.

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Re: portfolio of high yield IT's

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Postby Arborbridge » July 27th, 2021, 8:56 am

richfool wrote:Personally I don't mind some overlap of holdings (through holding trusts targetting the same sector). Different managers may take different views of when to buy and sell those holdings, which helps to further spread the risk.


You are right not to mind, because even though they buy the same of similar companies, the managers achieve different results.
For those who are sceptical about this, all one needs to do is look at a few charts of total return plotting various well known ITs investing in UK companies together - and see the differences.


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Re: portfolio of high yield IT's

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Postby gnawsome » July 27th, 2021, 2:26 pm

Arborbridge wrote:
richfool wrote:Personally I don't mind some overlap of holdings (through holding trusts targetting the same sector). Different managers may take different views of when to buy and sell those holdings, which helps to further spread the risk.


You are right not to mind, because even though they buy the same of similar companies, the managers achieve different results.
For those who are sceptical about this, all one needs to do is look at a few charts of total return plotting various well known ITs investing in UK companies together - and see the differences.


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