UK equity income funds weathering hard times

Investors keen to find stocks to meet income requirements

Like investors in equities everywhere, investors in UK equity income funds have lost significant amounts of money. However, all is not doom and gloom and equity income investors should take some comfort from the fact they avoided some of the biggest losses, faring better than those invested in either the UK Growth sector or the FTSE All-Share Index. Nevertheless, this may seem a small consolation to investors who saw the median UK equity income fund losing 7.5% in the last quarter, bringing its loss in 2008 to 28.1%, while those invested in the UK Equity & Bond sector only fared slightly ...