High-yielding stocks have been doing well despite rising interest rates, according to asset management firm AllianceBernstein. "Traditionally, high yielding stocks have been thought of as bond proxies and had historically underperformed the wider equity market in periods of rising rates.
" They added that the strategy has done well in Europe so far this year, having returned 6.5% as of Oct. 18 — beating the 2% of its benchmark, the equal-weighted largest 300 stocks in the MSCI Europe, excluding financial stocks. "Combined yield has been the best performing of the long-short European factors that we track, year-to-date," the analysts said.
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