MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Dividends at Robinson

MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Dividends? They’re part of the package at Robinson By Joanne Hart, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:55 BST, 11 July 2020 | Updated: 22:45 BST, 11 July 2020 Dividends are a scarce commodity these days. Some companies are cancelling them out of necessity. Others, such as Driver, are cancelling them out … Read more

Only 14 FTSE 100 firms have raised dividends for each of the last 10 years

Just 14 FTSE 100 firms have managed to raise their annual dividend payouts for each of the last 10 years Ashtead Group has had the highest total shareholder return in the last decade  Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell cut its dividend for the first time since 1945 this year ABF, Prudential and BAE Systems have … Read more

Ugly FTSE 100 forecast of 16% fall in dividends this year

Income investors face a 16 per cent drop in dividends from Britain’s top companies this year as they attempt to weather the Covid-19 crisis, a new forecast shows. Nearly half of FTSE 100 firms have now cut or suspended shareholder rewards as the coronovirus pandemic takes a dramatic toll on business activity. The other half … Read more

Investors endure a £60m blow as 48 FTSE firms slash their dividends

Investors endure a £60m blow as almost half of FTSE firms slash their dividend payouts By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 11 June 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 11 June 2020 Forty-eight FTSE 100 firms have slashed dividends – in a huge blow to investors and savers. Chemicals giant Johnson Matthey … Read more

Global dividends could fall by as much as 35% this year

Savers hit as global dividends could fall by 35%, report warns, but it says US and Asia are where investors have been best protected The best-case scenario for global dividends in 2020 is a 15 per cent drop, based on cuts and suspensions already confirmed, and which accounts for $213billion Banks, discretionary consumer sectors and … Read more

BRUNNER INVESTMENT TRUST: Paying rising dividends for 47 years 

BRUNNER INVESTMENT TRUST: Global ‘one-stop shop’ founded in 1927 has paid rising dividends for 47 years By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 15 May 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 15 May 2020 WHAT IS IT? The Brunner Investment Trust, run by Allianz Global Investors, calls itself a ‘one-stop shop’ for investors … Read more

Coronavirus looks set to cost £85bn in lost dividends

Coronavirus crisis looks set to cost pension funds and savers nearly £85bn in lost dividends By Hugo Duncan for the Daily Mail Published: 21:53 BST, 3 May 2020 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 3 May 2020 The coronavirus crisis looks set to cost pension funds and savers nearly £85 billion in lost dividends.  More than 300 … Read more

HAMISH MCRAE: Dividends are vital to economic demand

The dividend drought has begun. For people who rely on dividends for their income, either directly or indirectly through their pensions, the past three or four weeks have been a catastrophe.  Share prices may have clambered back some 20 per cent from their lows of March 23, when the FTSE100 index dipped below 5,000 – … Read more

Dividends are drying up and investors are set to lose £35 BILLION

The UK stock market may be back in ‘bull’ rather than ‘bear’ territory, but I say pull the other one. This is more ‘cock and bull’ than bull, and will bring little comfort to the army of investors who rely on shares to provide them with an income.  For these income-seekers, many dependent upon a … Read more

Oil giant Shell’s eight-decade run of not cutting dividends ends

Shell’s 80-year run of not cutting dividends ends as the oil giant falls victim to historic slump in demand caused by virus lockdown Shell is the first oil ‘supermajor’ to cut dividends due to the Covid-19 pandemic  Russ Mould, AJ Bell: Dividend cut is ‘devastating to investors across the country  In layman’s terms, oil markets … Read more