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Screens Yield Your Clients Can Use By Karin Anderson Use this screen to find income-generating stock funds that are good bets for both taxable and nontaxable accounts. Many investors seek the steady income provided by dividend-paying stocks, but companies from across the market-cap spectrum have been cutting dividends during 2008’s nerve-jangling market swoon. True, high-yielding stocks haven’t been any less volatile than the market as a whole in the past couple of years. Still, for those with long-term investment horizons, dividendfocused funds offer a great way to reap the rewards of income-generating stocks while minimizing the risk that a few companies will affect a client’s entire portfolio. Morningstar Advisor Workstation and Principia are helpful tools for sifting through the universe of stock funds to find higher-yielding portfolios. To set up this screen, we started by searching for domestic stock funds run by skilled stock-pickers. We screened for funds with top-third category rankings over the trailing 10-year period, making sure that the current management was responsible for that record. Special Criteria Morningstar Category % Rank Cat 10 Yr 5 5 Now, we need to narrow the field to stock funds with high yields. We’ll use the prospective dividend yield percentage, which is the asset-weighted average of the prospective dividend yields of all the domestic stocks in the fund’s portfolio as of the date of the most recent portfolio. This measure incorporates each stock’s prospective dividend yield, which is calculated by dividing estimated annual regular dividends per share for the current fiscal year by the company’s month-end stock price as of the portfolio date. Morningstar weights each portfolio holding by the percentage of domestic equity assets it represents so that larger positions have proportionately greater influence on the fund’s dividend yield. Here, we set the screen for funds with prospective dividend yields greater than 2%. We wouldn’t expect this criterion to give us only dividend-focused strategies, but it should help point us in the right direction. Prospective Dividend Yield > 2.0 And because dividend-paying stocks tend to lead to greater taxable gains, investors using taxable accounts should consider funds with better aftertax records. One way to do this 64 Morningstar Advisor April/May 2009
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009
Contents
New on MorningstarAdvisor.com
Letter from the Editor
Contributors
Did Diversification Fail Investors?
Accounting for His Success
The Classics
Investment Briefs
A Multiple-Lens Approach to Analysis
Where Leverage Lurks
Guide to Finding Hidden Risks
How Leveraged ETFs Compound the Misery
Get Rid of the Dead Weight
Grounded Manager
Investors Should Mind Their Tails
Four Picks for the Present
The Future of Big Pharma
Yield Your Clients Can Use
Wide Moats, Good Stewardship: A Potent Bear-Market Combination
Mutual Fund Analyst Picks
50 Most Popular Equity ETFs
Undervalued Stocks
New at Morningstar
To Beat the Devil
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - Intro
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - Cover2
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Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 2
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - Contents
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Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 5
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - New on MorningstarAdvisor.com
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 7
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 8
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - Letter from the Editor
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - Contributors
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 11
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - Did Diversification Fail Investors?
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 13
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - Accounting for His Success
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 15
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 16
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - The Classics
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 18
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 19
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - Investment Briefs
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 21
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 22
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Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 24
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - A Multiple-Lens Approach to Analysis
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 26
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Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - Where Leverage Lurks
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 33
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Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 35
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - Guide to Finding Hidden Risks
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 37
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 38
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 39
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - How Leveraged ETFs Compound the Misery
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 41
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - Get Rid of the Dead Weight
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 43
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Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - Grounded Manager
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Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 53
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - Investors Should Mind Their Tails
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 55
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Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 57
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - Four Picks for the Present
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Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - The Future of Big Pharma
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 62
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 63
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - Yield Your Clients Can Use
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 65
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - Wide Moats, Good Stewardship: A Potent Bear-Market Combination
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 67
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - Mutual Fund Analyst Picks
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 69
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 70
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 71
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 50 Most Popular Equity ETFs
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 73
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - Undervalued Stocks
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 75
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Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - 77
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Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - New at Morningstar
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - To Beat the Devil
Morningstar Advisor - April/May 2009 - Cover3
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