Dividend yield

This one is not written up yet

The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.

Written up from the same chapter

• Asset allocationThe decision on how to distribute a client's wealth across asset classes — the first decision in building a portfolio, and the one that explains most of what the portfolio then does.
• Authorised capitalThe maximum amount of share capital a company is allowed to issue, fixed in its Memorandum of Association — a ceiling on what can be created, not money the company has.
• Bollinger bandsA technical indicator that plots bands a set number of standard deviations either side of a moving average, treating prices at the upper band as overbought and at the lower band as oversold.
• Corporate actionAn event initiated by a company that changes the securities it has issued — dividend, buyback, bonus, split, consolidation, rights issue or merger — and which the registrar has to execute investor by investor.
• Corporate governanceThe rules, processes and procedures followed in running a company, judged by an analyst against a checklist of board, audit and related-party tests rather than by reputation.
• Credit spreadThe extra yield a non-government borrower must pay over a government security of the same tenor — the market price of credit risk, quoted as an add-on over the risk-free rate.