Management put its foot down when salesmen demanded to sell policies that turned life insurance into a high-yield investment.

These factors drove a large increase in demand for high-yield investments.

State bank regulators are warning consumers against investment schemes, often promoted on the Internet, that claim to offer high-yield investments through the world's "prime banks."

Recent low interest rates made trusts very popular with people looking for high-yield investments, including affluent retirees.

The Peace Corps, she said, is "a high-yield investment that pays off in multiple ways at home and abroad."

Contrary to conventional views about risk, some experts argue that emerging market bond funds are safer than high-yield investments in the developed world.

It was taking such risks that allowed mutual funds investing in high-yield short-term investments around the world to pay attractive returns.

"There are other high-yield investments that are less volatile," he said.

But investors demand higher returns than depositors, and many banks chased high-risk, high-yield investments.

Remind me to look into it-I've been looking for another high-yield investment, and this just might be it.