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Looking beyond bonds

With bond prices high and inflation threatening to chip away at their returns, investors may want to cash in some of their fixed income for other high-yielding investments, said Andrew Bary in Barron’s. Consider utility and telecom stocks, bank preferred stock, and convertible securities. It’s also worth looking at master limited partnerships—publicly traded groups that own pipelines used to transport natural gas, heating oil, gasoline, jet fuel, and other petroleum products. Thanks to their “outstanding cash flow,” MLPs have generated “some of the best returns of any asset class in the past decade.” They’re not well known among individual investors—but that could soon change, considering that such partnerships currently are paying out 7 percent and 8 percent yields, most of which is tax-deferred.

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