‘Highly unlikely’ UK dividends will match pre-Covid highs until 2025
Link Group’s worst-case scenario has payouts falling for a second year in a row to £61.5bn
Link Group’s worst-case scenario has payouts falling for a second year in a row to £61.5bn
‘The most important return to the dividend list will be the banks’
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But Link says drop in shareholder payouts is not all down to coronavirus crisis
This year set to be worst for dividends since global financial crisis with UK and Europe worst hit
Oils, retail, travel and financials likely to struggle in the medium term
Just 36% of UK equity income funds hold Shell in their top-10 compared to 65% at the start of 2020
FTSE 100 companies spent £136bn buying back their own shares from 2010 to 2019
Merian fund manager praises Legal & General for telling dividend naysayers to ‘bog off’
Rachel Beagles joins board as scion of investment trust’s founding family steps back
Managers warn a fifth of income could be swiped as £3bn worth of dividends cut
Two-thirds of the long-run equity returns in the region have historically come from dividends