{"id":76,"date":"2013-06-04T08:59:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T08:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=76"},"modified":"2013-06-04T08:59:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T08:59:08","slug":"the-search-for-5-yield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"The search for 5% yield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In these crazy times of extra-ordinary low interest rates, where does one look to find an investment that gives a decent rate of return ?<\/p>\n<p>For pension funds or retired people, looking for a regular rate of return, these times are very hard to secure a reliable source of income. However one can find investments that do yield 5%, so there are ways to make your hard earned savings pay a decent yield with a level of risk, as it is not possible to get 5% on a deposit account, but I can show you some investments that do yield 5% provided you have an appetite for risk.<\/p>\n<p>HICL Infrastructure PLC [<a title=\"HICL Infrastructure\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?csi=185903&amp;amp;action=]\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?csi=185903&amp;amp;action=]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Laing Infrastructure PLC<br \/>\n[<a title=\"John Laing Infrastructure PLC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?csi=2510086&amp;amp;action=\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?csi=2510086&amp;amp;action=<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Individual stocks that give exposure to hard assets that give a return of 5%.<br \/>\nThere are investment funds that pay monthly and are yielding 4%.<\/p>\n<p>The Legal &amp; General Monthly Income Fund:<br \/>\n[<a title=\"Legal &amp; General Managed Monthly Income Fund\" href=\"http:\/\/i.legalandgeneral.com\/consumer\/investments\/products-and-funds\/actively-managed\/income\/investments-productsandfunds-activelymanaged-income-fund-managedmonthlyincome.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/i.legalandgeneral.com\/consumer\/investments\/products-and-funds\/actively-managed\/income\/investments-productsandfunds-activelymanaged-income-fund-managedmonthlyincome.jsp<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>One has to look hard, but as you see, one can get an income if one is willing to take a risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these crazy times of extra-ordinary low interest rates, where does one look to find an investment that gives a decent rate of return ? For pension funds or retired people, looking for a regular rate of return, these times are very hard to secure a reliable source of income. However one can find investments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}