The trillions that have been lost on Wall Street over
the last few months are nothing compared to what we're now facing
with the frozen credit markets.
Your
kids and grandkids too.
It looks like everyone is going to be a victim.
For starters, frozen credit means no
loans. No auto
loans . . . no home loans . . . and no personal lines of credit.
It also means no home equity loans . . . and even lower limits on your
credit cards.
Might need to postpone buying that snazzy Smart car
unless you've got the cash -- your $4+ per gallon gas-guzzler will have to do for
now.
Or that "once-in-a-lifetime" investment property?
Sorry
friend, chances are that's not gonna' happen now either . . . even though you may see
bargain basement property sales at your favorite resort.
You see, in a credit-based economy such as ours . . . when you can't
borrow money, you stop spending money.
Frozen credit will also
have a big impact on your kids and grandkids.
For instance, no credit
means no
student loans.
And with the average cost of four years of a private
college upwards of $30,000 these days, your kid or grandkid may be
denied an education. After all, if she can't borrow the money
she needs to pay for tuition, she can't get a college degree.
In a world of growing
global competition in the workforce, how will she compete? Without
an education, what chance does she have against top talent from
countries like China, India, Mexico, Argentina, and the Philippines?
Never before in history has education been as critical for the
future of our youth as it is right now.
To put this into perspective:
At just over 8 million residents, New York City is the most populous
city in the United States. A recent census reveals that there are 17
million undergrad and grad students in the United States.
Imagine if just half of these students required loans.
A credit
freeze means that a group of students
larger than the population of New York City will be denied the loan
they need to attend school.
Now that's a crisis.
Frozen credit will also mean no small business
loans . . . no big business loans . . . and no new construction loans.
When businesses can't borrow capital to invest in
their
own growth, they simply stop growing. At the same time,
since consumers are no longer spending, these companies take huge
hits in revenue . . . and ultimately their profit margins get squeezed.
When companies stop increasing their profits -- or
producing any profit at all -- shareholders bail out. Even
more capital is lost.
What
kind of investor is going to put their money in a company that's
going backwards?
With Wall Street institutions dropping like flies, and
trillions of dollars of investors' wealth going up in smoke, I
like to put my money in a safe place where I can wait out the storm.
That's why I'm keeping my money in safe,
steady
dividend-paying securities located in countries like Taiwan,
Australia, New Zealand, and Brazil. These countries are:
It just makes sense to keep
my money in high-yielding instruments that pay me up to 20.0%
in dividends . . . and I'm sure you'll choose to follow suit after reading
this letter.
Because I suspect you get the same thrill from a steady stream of
fat dividend checks as I do.
Problem is, you and I happen to live in one of the stingiest countries in the world when it comes to interest and dividends.
The average U.S. stock pays just
2.4%. (We now have one of the lowest-yielding stock market in the world, apart from Japan's.)
It's a cash-flow desert here in America for anyone who needs to bank a comfortable income off their portfolio. While you can find the occasional high-yielding stock, odds are that anything paying above say, 12%, is a basket case.
In fact, once you weed
out the money losers, only 12 U.S. common stocks pay more than 12%.
Just 12 lonely survivors. But guess what?
Expand your horizon a bit and it's
a completely different story.
Right now, there are
actually 481 profitable companies yielding more than 12% -- they just don't happen to be in the U.S.
Fact is, any income investor who doesn't look overseas might as well be playing golf with one club. You're giving up on 98% of your juiciest yields before you even tee off.
My name is Paul Tracy. I'm
the Chief Investment Strategist at StreetAuthority LLC, where we publish the most widely read dividend-focused newsletter in the country, High-Yield Investing. With more than 26,000 paying subscribers, more investors rely on us to lead them to safe high yields than any other service.
We delight in finding safe stocks, bonds and funds yielding so much that you don't even have to worry about making a capital gain.
Our subscribers are racking up solid profits by
focusing on companies that put shareholders first -- by sharing their profits in the form of steadily increasing cash dividends.
And we've done our job well, if our status as America's highest-circulation income-investing letter means anything.
But a few years ago, we started noticing that more and more of the highest yields we were finding were foreign. In successive months, we featured a closed-end Asian fund yielding
19.6% . . . a Spanish phone company yielding 11.2% . . .
a South American country fund yielding 25.3% . . . a regional European fund yielding
13.8% . . . an emerging market stock fund yielding 20.8% . .
. an Australian real-estate firm yielding 14.1% . . . and a Bermuda-based shipping firm yielding 17.4%.
While we'd prefer to pocket huge yields from IBM and other home-grown blue chips, it just isn't happening.
The good stocks don't yield much and many of the highest high
yielders have been the hardest hit of all in the mortgage and
banking crisis. If anything, keeping our money at home is proving to
be more dangerous than sending it abroad. With Lehman Brothers
bankrupt... Merrill Lynch taken over in a fire sale... Fannie,
Freddie and AIG all wards of the state... now is hardly the time to
warn of of the danger of foreign investing.
Rather than fight this
new reality, we've turned it to our advantage by launching an entirely new publication called High-Yield International.
And I'm inviting you to become a subscriber today.
A Powerfully Simple Investment Thesis
You don't have to be a genius to understand
our game plan. Our 3-pronged attack is simplicity itself:
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Most foreign economies are growing faster than ours. Simple logic dictates that their stocks will grow faster, too.
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After a brief period of strength sparked by the Fed's bailout of
Fannie, Freddie and AIG, we believe the U.S. dollar is likely to continue declining.
This will accelerate the first trend and compound your profits.
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Finally, and most importantly, yields are simply much higher overseas.
The bottom line is that if you want truly high yields, you need to look overseas. While U.S. shares pay
a puny 2.4%, the average stock in New Zealand yields
more than 7%! And there are dozens of Kiwi blue chips throwing off 9%, 10%, 11% and more!
Check out the chart below and you'll see how much more other markets yield. And we're not even including a dozen other smaller markets that are also paying more than the U.S.
What Caused The Credit Crisis... And Where Is Your Money
Safe?
In short, the crisis initially stemmed from relaxed
lending procedures -- primarily related to the housing
market.
Lax lending practices allowed millions of people to borrow
money for a home. Some of these people had shaky credit,
some of these people were qualified for loans of far more
than traditional metrics would have allowed, and in some
cases both of these factors were present.
Many borrowers took out 100% of the value of the home they
were purchasing, using an adjustable rate mortgage to ensure
starting monthly payments were affordable. However, these
instruments typically offered a low introductory rate and
"reset" to a market rate after a certain time period,
usually meaning higher payments for the borrower.
Housing prices, however, began to pull back -- dramatically,
in some cases. Many borrowers -- as many as 40%, according
to Deutsche Securities -- became "upside down," meaning they
owed more on their mortgages than the home was worth.
Normally that wouldn't cause a problem -- it happens to most
new-car buyers as soon as they drive off the lot. It doesn't
really matter, unless the borrower wants to sell the car.
In the case of these homes, though, many borrowers did in
fact want to sell as soon as they realized that they
couldn't afford the payments after the interest rate reset.
Borrowers began to default, banks began to foreclose, and
the value of billions of dollars in securities backed by
pools of home mortgages plummeted.
This eroded the balance sheets of banks and brokerages,
which heavily bought the instruments. The holders of these
assets had to "write down" their holdings to reflect their
falling value -- and those writedowns had to be charged
against earnings. A recent Bloomberg tally shows banks and
brokerages have already written down more than $500 billion
in mortgage-backed securities.
This created turmoil in the credit markets, resulting in a
sea change in Wall Street's makeup, with some of its most
storied names being acquired, going out of business or
seeking bankruptcy. In a practical sense, banks are now
extremely hesitant to make any loans, which makes it hard
for factories, farmers and other enterprises large and small
to do business.
You may be fed up with this whole financial fiasco... and
deservedly so. But instead of moping about U.S. stock
losses, why not put your money to work for you in safe and
steady, high-yielding securities located in fast-growing
markets not caught up in our credit mess?
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Poland, for example, yields
3.3%. Singapore yields 4.1% . . . Greece, 3.7% . . . Holland,
4.2% .
. . and Taiwan, 5.0%. And remember, those are just the averages, weighted down by large numbers of stocks that don't yield a cent.
Meanwhile, as long as
the dollar continues its long-term slide, these foreign yields are getting more valuable every day. While the U.S. economy cools,
many parts of the world are sizzling, and central banks worldwide are raising interest rates. As investors buy foreign assets to capture these higher
rates
.
. . these currencies are rising fast against the buck.
But let's not mourn the falling dollar.
Let's celebrate the flip side of the coin: the rising value of just about every other currency on the planet.
Because this opens up a treasure chest of money-making
opportunities.
An appreciating foreign currency gives even the stodgiest foreign stock a wonderful "tail wind," pushing the dollar-value of your investment ever upward -- even if its price in local currency doesn't move a bit.
Join Us and Profit from the World's Most Powerful Investment Force
Whether you're investing in Zanzibar or
on the NYSE, you're making a currency bet.
Get the currency right and you've
already won more than half the battle. If you can get into a country
when its currency is 200 units to the dollar and get out when it's
100 to the dollar, you've already doubled your money. And that's on
top of any capital gain on the stock, or interest on the bond.
I hate to discourage all the stock
pickers out there, but the simple fact is that it's much more
important to be in the right countries than the right stocks.
An appreciating currency can effortlessly transform a so-so return
into an extraordinary gain.
Take Australia, for example. You could
have bought any Australian stock five years ago, and with the
currency strengthening against the dollar, you would have had an
extra 68% in your pocket -- on top of whatever the stock returned. The +109%
return of Australia's All Ordinaries Index became a +183% gain for
U.S. investors.
Almost the exact same thing happened in
New Zealand. Over the past five years, stocks
have soared +58% there. But American
investors gained +97% because of the currency effect.
In Germany, stocks rose +86% in euros,
but in dollar terms they were up +158%.
It goes on and on around the world. In
Spain, stocks rose +92% for Spanish investors, but +157% for their
U.S. counterparts.
In Brazil, the currency effect was like
rocket fuel. Local investors saw their shares soar +338%… but in
dollar terms Brazilian stocks gained an eye-popping +730%!
So where are we telling our readers to invest
now for currency-powered stock profits? Let's take a tour. For our
first stop, we don't even have to cross the ocean...
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First Stop, Canada
Few people realize that among the world's 16 major currencies, Canada's has been one of the top performers against the U.S. dollar. In fact, the Canadian dollar
has soared +31% over the past five years against the dollar, far faster than the euro's +27% rise. That means dividend payouts from Canadian companies also surged +31%
in the past five years for U.S. investors.
When a yield-hungry investor thinks of Canada, the first thing that comes to mind are oil and gas trusts. But in
less than three years we can kiss our favorite Canadian energy trusts goodbye. Thanks to the Canadian government's decision to tax them like corporations starting in 2011, their double-digit yields will become a thing of the past.
Not to worry. A few years ago, our northern neighbor invented another type of security that's as close to the income trust as hot chocolate is to cocoa. "Income deposit securities" may not sound very glamorous, but who cares when they offer juicy yields of up to 11.8%?
In fact, IDSs are really Canadian income trusts in disguise, efficiently distributing a company's cash flow to shareholders. Canadian investment banks designed them specifically for U.S. companies seeking a Canadian income trust structure better suited to American tax laws.
While many high-yield securities carry equally high risks, IDSs are special because their rich yields tend to be extremely safe.
These companies run the gamut from school buses and hospitals to funeral homes and recycling plants. Whatever their focus, all of them are in recession-proof businesses that throw off piles of free cash flow, even in a slowing economy. And they all pass along the lion's share of that cash flow to investors.
With only a handful of these securities trading today, they are easily overlooked. But we first called attention to these high-yield gems over a year ago in High-Yield Investing. In fact, we liked them so much so that we added three to our model portfolios.
And they haven't let us down. For example,
since we added packaged food supplier B&G Foods to our
portfolio, it has returned a solid 35%, while the stock market as a
whole is in the hole by 6%.
Now let's look at a couple of interesting places for high-yield investors that that you won't find in a typical investment
letter . . .
T-bills that Pay Over 10%? In Africa?
In South Africa, one-year T-bills pay 10.1%.
The South African rand
can be volatile due to inflation and political issues. But with the
St. Louis-based bank we'll tell you about in High-Yield
International, you don't have to send your money to South Africa
to capture these sky-high yields. You can get a six-month CD paying
8.5% right now.
But you may do even
better investing directly with a South African broker. After all, this
is Africa's largest and most developed economy, and one of the world's
largest producers of gold and platinum. Thanks to upswing in precious
metals prices, the economy is clipping along at +4.5% growth per year.
You'll have plenty of chances to invest directly in high-yielding
South African cash cows when you subscribe to High-Yield
International.
The Land Of Milk . . . and Money
Over the past 10 years, the New Zealand Stock Market has surged
+139%, and the "Kiwi" dollar has risen nearly +40% vs. our own, bringing the gains for American investors up to
+243%.
Is the party over in New Zealand?
Our prediction: The best is yet to come.
Long-term global population pressures are strongly bullish for this naturally rich nation.
New Zealand single-handedly accounts for one-third of the world's dairy
trade . . . and the global rise in the price of milk is showering windfall profits on the nation's dairy farmers.
In fact, New Zealand's biggest dairy operation hiked its 2008 payout by +27% over 2007. The money will be flowing like milk, first to New Zealand's farmers and then into the country's stock market.
This helps explain why stocks in New Zealand offer the highest dividends in the world. The average payout is over
7%.
Meanwhile, rock-solid
New Zealand government bonds now pay 6.8% . . . and outside
money continues to flow into the country to capture these attractive
rates. No wonder the Kiwi dollar recently hit a
26-year high.
You're Not a Kiwi?
Your Dividends are Even Bigger!
These high-yielding New Zealand stocks are an even better deal than they
appear . . . because their dividends are effectively tax-free.
Local New Zealand investors are given tax credits to compensate for the tax they pay on dividends. Since overseas investors can't use these credits, most New Zealand companies pay higher dividends to overseas investors than to resident investors. Where else can you find companies that pay you extra just because you're an American?
So Why Are Yields
Higher Overseas, Anyway?
There are three reasons why yields on U.S. stocks fall far short of what other countries give you:
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Many industries in foreign countries are
dominated by state-sanctioned monopolies. These old-school
companies, with strong ties to the government, tend to be the
most stable -- and some of the highest-yielding -- on the
planet. By contrast, the U.S. has opened up many traditional
industries to fierce competition... hurting margins, profits and
dividends in the process.
- Because of their higher volatility,
the largest companies in emerging markets
need
to offer enticing yields to attract
foreign investors, especially deep-pocketed institutional
investors. The solid dividend payments serve another purpose as
well: they
put a floor on a firm's share price and protect against steep drops.
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Until 2003 the U.S. taxed dividends as
ordinary income -- creating an incentive for companies to deploy
excess cash in other ways. It's simply part of U.S. corporate
culture to make acquisitions, repurchase shares or expand the
business rather than pay dividends to
shareholders. After all, these
shareholders would immediately lose a portion of those dividends
to Uncle Sam. Although
qualified dividends are now taxed
at a lower 15% rate, corporate America has not
fully adjusted its cash-deployment
strategy.
Entire Markets Surging
Triple Digits
While the S&P 500 had a
lackluster 2007, rising just 3.5%, just look at the returns
posted by other stock markets around the
world . . .
U.S. stocks have never moved like this. Never. The highest one-year gain the S&P 500 ever reported was
+45% -- and that was a lifetime ago . . . in 1954.
The S&P
500 didn't even crack the top 50 last year, coming in 76th out of the world's 90
major stock market indexes.
On top of eye-popping returns, when you venture off the U.S. exchanges you also find freakishly high yields.
This is a whole new ball game. And it requires extreme due diligence. When you're buying Venezuelan stocks yielding
18%, and you're looking over your shoulder at Hugo Chavez, you'll feel a lot better knowing that
our High-Yield International staff has done the research first.
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Buying Venezuelan stocks isn't for everyone. But what if I told you that in neighboring Brazil, you can get the same yields at a fraction of the risk?
Brazil has its problems, but in contrast to Venezuela, it's staunchly capitalist and pro-American.
On the Sao Paolo
exchange as I write this, no fewer than 26 stocks are yielding more than
13%. And thanks to liberalized SEC regulations and adventurous new brokerages, you can now buy these cash cows without leaving your armchair.
That's the kind of insight you get with High-Yield International
-- and nowhere else. If a service like this existed, we would
never have gone to the expense and trouble of starting this one from scratch.
Join us as we venture to these newly accessible markets and you'll see stocks yielding
15.4% . . . mutual funds yielding
13.1% . . . closed-end bond funds yielding 16.3% . . . along with high-yielding REITs, royalty trusts, limited partnerships, ETFs, preferred stocks, convertible
preferreds . . . and a few strange investment creatures you probably never knew existed!
What We Bring to the Table
It's tough to research, analyze and follow far-away stocks yourself. Heck, it's not easy for us
-- and that's all we do for a living. So we've put together a great team to do the work for you.
Heading up the team is veteran income
investor Nick Lanyi. This award-winning financial reporter and investment analyst
serves as editor, decision maker and portfolio picker for our new advisory service.
We couldn't have found a better man for the job. Nick has spent 17 years researching and analyzing money-making opportunities for three of the most widely-read investment advisory services in history.
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At Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street, Nick spent the better part of a decade as
a core member of Rukeyser's trusted research team, covering the entire investment waterfront.
Louis Rukeyser was the first person to bring Wall Street to Main Street, via his pioneering television show that drew 10 times the audience of the likes of CNBC. And his print advisory was by far the most popular investment letter in history.
During his rigorous apprenticeship, Nick steadily rose through the ranks to ultimately supervise all investment research for Rukeyser's newsletter. He personally analyzed hundreds of companies and spent years specifically focused on high-yielding
stocks and bonds.
If anyone was destined to inherit Rukeyser's skill at isolating Wall Street's few proven producers from a sea of riff raff, it was Nick.
Using Rukeyser's priceless Rolodex, Nick established working relationships with virtually every prominent money manager on Wall Street. He interviewed dozens of top money managers and analysts. And he developed the rare knack for translating their often-arcane statements into plain English that the rest of us can understand and act on.
It's the Smartest Way to Invest Here . . .
AND Over There
Study after study has proven that over the long haul, stocks with higher dividends outperform all others.
If you invested $100,000 in non-dividend paying stocks in 1972, you'd have
made $240,000 by October 2007. That same $100,000 in
dividend-payers would have made you $3.2 million. Even better, stocks that initiated or raised their dividends turned $100,000 into more than $4 million.
Everything that makes high-yield investing so lucrative here holds true overseas as well.
High-yielding investments offer the most compelling risk-reward trade-off you can
find . . . a smooth path to wealth instead of heart-stopping peaks and plunges. From 1971 to 2001, boring but dividend-heavy utility stocks actually outperformed the Nasdaq's aggressive but dividendless technology stocks -- while incurring about half the volatility along the way. International utility stocks, with their even higher yields, did even better.
One more thing: dividends keep management honest. You can hide a lot of bad news with tricky accounting, but you can't fake dividends. Dividends send a clear message that management is putting shareholders first by paying them the profits they deserve as co-owners of the business.
We're Not Allergic to
Capital Gains, Either!
It's a funny thing about high-payout companies: hold them long enough and before you know it, you're usually sitting on a nice-sized capital gain as well. Here are few cases from our own experience in digging up high-yielding stocks for StreetAuthority subscribers:
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When we featured DryShips, Inc., it was trading at $11.11 and yielding 7.2%. While the dividend has been coming in like clockwork, the share price has skyrocketed to over $70, handing us a whopping +604% capital gain. And all this has
happened in two years!
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Likewise with another shipper, Diana Shipping. We featured this one at the same time as
DryShips, because its 12.9% yield caught our eye. But the stock has since jumped
+184%, for a triple-our-money total return of +224%.
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We bought an oil royalty trust operating in
Alaska four years ago at $38.15 per share. It was paying a $3.82
dividend for a yield of 10.0%. Now it's paying $11.12 a share, giving
our readers a 29.2% yield on their original buy-in price. Meanwhile, the shares are trading at over $80, for a total return of
+222%.
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Even so-so yielders like most REITs can surprise you.
Simon Property Group wasn't paying a whole lot when we
first spotted it about four years ago. But we knew its dividend was reliable. SPG's payout has risen
over 71% over the years and its share price has more than doubled, giving
our readers a +418% total return.
You get the picture. When you own a steadily growing cash machine, good things tend to happen. You either pocket paycheck-size dividends on a regular basis, or watch your pile of beans grow into a mountain of cash.
Safety Is Everything
I'm not naive about the dangers that can lurk behind outlandishly high yields.
So to make sure your dividend is SAFE, we put every stock, bond and mutual fund through a unique analytical boot camp. It's like an x-ray for detecting safe and lasting income streams.
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Here are just a few things we need to see before we even think about
recommending an investment to you:
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A long track record of improving earnings. The longer a firm has been profitable, the more likely it is to deliver steady returns in the coming years.
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A history of consistent and growing dividend
payments. We want to see steadily increasing dividends with no declines or missed payments.
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Strong cash flows. Since you can't pay dividends without cash, we
stick to companies that are generating above-average amounts of cash each and every year.
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Strong projected growth. Growing firms are more likely to be able to boost their dividends in the future.
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A sustainable payout ratio. Firms occasionally pay out 100% or more of their earnings to shareholders. They can't do this for long without cutting their dividend. We avoid firms that are skating too close to the edge.
It's hard enough to gather this data on U.S. companies. When you're deciding whether to put money into an Argentine cattle ranch or a South African paper mill,
it becomes a real scavenger hunt.
If we can't verify the numbers to our own comfort level, we take a pass. Instead of swinging wildly for the fences, we prefer to stand calmly at home plate, patiently waiting for the perfect moment to swing. There's no hurry, because the umpire can never call us out. We simply wait as long as we want for the ideal pitch to float across the plate.
Why It's Easier Than Ever to Go International
Time was, only rich people and institutions could invest abroad. But small investors hungry for overseas stocks are having it easier every day.
Democracy has come to Wall Street, and formerly unattainable markets are now easily and cheaply traded by everyone.
The most recent big news is that the SEC is now allowing foreign brokers to sell directly to U.S. investors. This marks the first time since the Wall Street crash of 1929 that the SEC has allowed that.
Conversely, many more U.S. brokerages are now starting to offer direct access to the markets in Toronto, Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong, Australia and London.
And this development couldn't have come at a better time because the
old way of doing things -- ADRs -- is breaking down.
Where Have All the ADRs Gone?
Fortunately, ADRs aren't
the thriving marketplace for international trading they once were.
Thanks to the
high cost of regulation in the Sarbanes-Oxley era, many
foreign companies aren't bothering to list their stocks
in the U.S.
Even some
of the world's premier companies -- including Taiwan's Hon Hai
Precision Industries, the world's largest contract-maker of
electronics -- are off-limits to U.S. investors. These companies
haven't bothered to register with the SEC, and don't have ADRs.
The point
is, if you want the best foreign stocks, you can't just sit back and
fish in a shrinking pool of ADRs. You have to go out and search for
the winners abroad. Which is exactly why we've launched High-Yield International.
We'll Show You The
Right Way
To Buy Foreign Stocks
Most foreign companies trade in the U.S. on the Pink Sheets using five-letter symbols ending in "F"
. . . or through over-the-counter ADRs, with five-letter symbols ending in "Y."
Be very careful when trading
these five-letter stocks. If you aren't careful, you'll run into bid/ask spreads so wide that you could drive a truck between them. All this does is enrich the market maker at your expense.
When the market maker is offering to sell you a share of XYZ for
$1.00 but will buy it back for just $0.90, you're in the hole by 10% right out of the gate.
We'll make sure you
avoid these sort of rip-offs . . . and show you a whole better
way to buy foreign stocks . . . in a special report you can get FREE with your
trial subscription to High-Yield International. In The Smart Way to Buy Foreign Stocks, you'll see how to have your foreign trades executed directly on foreign exchanges, cut out the market maker, and keep the savings for yourself.
Take a few minutes today to open an
account with one of the brokers in this report and you can be
trading on the foreign markets tomorrow.
Most have direct
relationships with foreign trading desks, which helps their clients
avoid those large spreads often imposed by U.S. market makers.
They all give you the six
"biggies": Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan and the
U.K. But some go much further, also letting you trade directly in
Australia, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece,
Holland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, New Zealand,
Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand and the Philippines.
You can also do all your
U.S. investing with these brokers, so you don't need two separate
accounts. Before you buy another foreign stock through your current
broker, get a free copy of our report and find out how much money
you can save every time you buy and sell.
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High-Yield International is the only periodical devoted exclusively to helping you profit from high-yielding foreign securities.
And that's all we do: dig up dependable cash-in-hand securities from Australia to Zurich that steadily steamroll ahead, compounding their gains into ever-higher total returns.
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We report to no one but you. If our recommendations don't increase your wealth, we know we will lose your trust and your readership. And we'd deserve to.
We accept no advertising. Nobody owns us. And we track all of our recommendations, so you always know how much money we're making for you.
We have one purpose and one purpose only -- safely making you money. Without a lot of nail biting and never more than a thimbleful of risk.
On the contrary, when you try High-Yield International, the risk is all ours. You don't risk a penny with our 100% money-back guarantee.
What You'll Get When You Join Us
High-Yield International is a web-based newsletter that you can access the instant we release each monthly issue. You can then easily print out the issue from your computer if you wish.
You'll never have to wait for your issue by snail mail because as soon as we dot the last "i" we'll e-mail you the complete issue.
You don't have to log on to a web site and fumble around with a password. The issue goes straight to your email
inbox.
In addition to your monthly issues and mid-month updates, we'll alert you by email whenever there's breaking news on one of our holdings.
Here's a Peek at What You Can
Expect
in Every Issue:
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Nick Lanyi's Global Focus:
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Nick focuses on a particular country or region of
the globe. It's a unique level of analysis that you
won't find in any other advisory service. He just
took a close look at Brazil, where stocks have risen
more than +267% in the past five years. Thanks to
Brazil's appreciating currency, U.S. investors are
up +564%! He found an ultra-safe way to tap into the
Brazilian boom via an electric utility paying 5.7%.
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International High-Yield
Security of the Month:
Most of our
readers turn here first. It's an in-depth profile of
an especially attractive company, fund, trust (or
perhaps an exotic security you've never even heard
of before). Nick's latest find was a South American
copper producer yielding 9.3%.
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Undiscovered Markets:
Nick loves
digging up high-yielding gems in off-the-beaten-path
countries like Vietnam, South Africa, Turkey and New
Zealand. These nations are posting surprisingly strong
economic growth. In a recent issue he found a
Singaporean REIT yielding 9.0% -- much more generous than
comparable REITs are paying here at home.
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Our Reliable
Income Portfolio of foreign common stocks, preferred stocks, mutual funds and ETFs with high and
dependable yields
. . . and some downside-risk protection. These stable, growing cash cows have long track records and strong future prospects. You can count on them to deliver premium income year-in and year-out.
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You'll also get a Mid-Month Update every month. This is not a skimpy bulletin, but a solid overview of the global high-yield scene, with specific buy/sell/hold advice on every position
in both our portfolios.
Look at What Else You Get . . .
To welcome you as a new subscriber, and to get off to a running start, you'll also receive a package of special reports we've prepared especially for new subscribers. Here's a peek at the three you get with a one-year subscription:
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The
Smart Way to Buy Foreign Stocks |
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Astounding (and Surprisingly Safe)
Yields in Emerging Markets |
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Fund Favorites:
Three Closed-End Winners for Dividend Lovers |
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Come on board for two years
and you get these four additional reports:
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Top Yields Down Under: Our Five Favorite High-Yield Stocks in Australia and New Zealand |
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Secret Asian Cash Cows: Three High-Yielding Stocks Western Investors Are Missing Out On |
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Heading South for Higher Yields: Latin America's Top Three Income Stocks |
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Global Gems:
Four Top-Yielding Foreign Winners |
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Charter Subscribers Save $397
A year of High-Yield International, which entitles you to 12 months of advice, complete with buy and sell signals, plus as-needed updates -- e-mailed to you within minutes of our investing decisions -- costs $794.
But right now you can receive a half-priced charter subscription for just $397 (with a 100% money-back guarantee, of course).
If you think about it, $397 is a modest price to pay for this level of service. On a $100,000 portfolio, it's like paying a 0.397% management fee, which is far less than you'd pay any mutual fund or asset manager -- even if you could find one in the arcane area of international high yields.
By the way, you can pay even less by signing on for two years, which drops the price to $697. You have the same 100% money-back guarantee as a one-year subscription, but you save an extra $97. That's a
steep discount off the standard two-year rate.
Not for Everyone . . . But Maybe Perfect For You
High-Yield International isn't for everyone. It's a focused and comprehensive service for committed income investors. Join
sus and you will be part of an elite investment alliance -- not a mass-circulation service.
Instead of trying to get a zillion subscribers, we want to make sure our service does what it's supposed to for you: take the guesswork out of choosing
high-yields from around the world without any hidden liabilities that could trip up a safety-first investor.
But I think once you try a few
issues . . . and see for yourself the mouthwatering income plays that excited us enough to start this
service . . . the cost will be the last thing on your mind.
On a $100,000 portfolio, you
could pocket $10,000 per year in dividends alone in these foreign cash cows -- and plenty more if you want to be aggressive. Is making
four times the yield of the average stock -- while reducing your risk -- worth
81 cents a day?
Only you can answer that. But our guarantee makes the fee irrelevant. I invite you to try High-Yield International for three full months with zero commitment.
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Editor, TheStockAdvisors
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If it's not right for you, we'll send you every penny of your payment back. No fine print. Take three full issues to decide. (Even after your three-month trial period is over, you can still get a pro-rated refund anytime you choose.)
Finally, I would like to remind you
that High Yield International is the only advisory devoted to profiting from both these powerful themes:
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Increasingly strong economic growth outside the U.S.
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Abnormally high dividend yields available on international securities.
Join us and you'll be part of a growing brotherhood of like-minded investment adventurers who share our love for reliable investment ideas delivering hefty income and strong capital gains.
When those fat distribution checks come rolling in, the beauty of our "pay-me-now" approach will be obvious. You'll recoup your initial investment before you know it. After that, every check is pure gravy. And any capital gain down the road is icing on the cake.
One last thing: look around you and you'll see why I am so convinced that NOW is the time to make this move.
Between the widening
credit crisis that has torpedoed venerable institutions like Lehman
Brothers . . . the inflationary $700 billion government
bailout to rescue Wall Street from its own bad bets on toxic
derivatives . . .
not to mention
the continually worsening trade and budget deficit . . . it all adds up to a pretty strong headwind for U.S. investors. Fed Chairman Bernanke has said so himself.
So it's your choice. You can place your investment future on the back
of U.S. stocks . . . a market yielding 2.4% that even optimistic forecasters believe will eke out
just +5% to +8% annual gains . . . or join us as we lock in solid foreign plays yielding from 9% to 25% right out of the gate in dividends alone.
We think the choice is clear. Please
click here to take advantage of our Charter Discount
today.

Sincerely,

Paul Tracy
Chief Investment Strategist
High-Yield International
P.S. Here are just
a few of the companies in our portfolio right now that are scheduled to pay a sizeable dividend in the next
three months alone:
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Business |
Annual yield based on next dividend |
| Canada |
Natural Gas |
13.7% |
| Bermuda |
Shipping |
20.0% |
| Ireland |
Aircraft Leasing |
16.7% |
| Australia |
Equity Fund |
12.1% |
| Global |
Real Estate |
11.3% |
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Don't let these payouts
pass you by!
P.P.S. Go ahead and try High-Yield International FREE for three months! That's right -- sign up now and take the next three monthly issues -- plus the special reports -- while you decide if the service is right for you. If it's not, no problem.
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