High yield investing. I like it.

 

I first started getting interest in high yiels investing/dividend yield investing when I was young. I first remember the eighties where putting money in offshore, Swiss banking was popular and almost anyoneone could deposit money into an Austrian bank, or Swiss bank or even Sark or Isle of Mann.

Anyway you could deposit dollars and buy gold coins, use the gold coins as collateral and get low interest loans and invest in foreign currency deposits that paid higher yields and sometimes the currency rose against the USD or gold.

The banks in Denmark were famous for those kind of loans, borrow in Yen or Euro or Dollar for 3% or less and buy a foreign currency that paid 5% or higher, sometimes 10% or more and the currency would rise 15% or more against the Euro, Yen or Dollar.

Just for the record  https://www.simplify.us/ has an ETF FOXY that does this. It has an excellent carry trade element to it. So no need to deposit assets offshore anymore, although still a good idea if your wealthy. 

Anyhow sense I was young I have always liked getting dividend yields in the 8% or higher range and just compound the yields for part of my capital. 

Another ETF company https://www.cambriafunds.com/index does similiar.  They have a quant way of buying value shares, and similiar for high yield shares that includes buybacks.

Now that im older I look at yield and dividends to get back part of my profits to apply to my income needs and also to reinvest into other things.

For growth of capital I like trend following.  Both those asset management companies have managed future ETFs that can include shares and commodity and currency and managed futures on almost anything trending up or down. I like strategies that are both long and short 

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I suppose I like yield investing because of the compounding and for the incentive it gives me to stay the course.

I have always had a bias against Tech/growth investing so prefer trend flowing to get that component. 

Or I just buy Tech ETFs in small amounts and just forget about them.

Thanks for reading.