Celebrating 25 years of the awards

The pet care market offers moderate but stable growth prospects, helped by a constant rise in pet ownership and increase in spending per pet.

How should investors behave in the current environment? There are many studies that show high yielding shares have historically provided superior total returns compared to the broad UK market.

Winners revealed at 3pm

Finding supportive allies

Firstly, equities. The companies we invest in continue to pay their dividends, even when many others are cutting or suspending theirs and/or raising equity.

Sustainable Development Goals are a matter of urgency

The market response first, to the Covid-19 crisis, and second, to the huge stimulus packages announced to offset it, has been astonishing.

As multi-asset investors focused on income generation, we do not think going against global central banks is prudent, and until we see a meaningful turnaround in economic data, our preference for adding to risk is likely to remain for debt over equity...

Looking back at previous winners