UK equity income still offers high yield

ON UK INCOME

JULIAN LEWIS, CEO of Cavendish Asset Management on UK Income.

The most straightforward argument for why investors should be looking at UK equity income is one can get a higher yield than from more traditional sources of income. To say this is an unusual situation would be an understatement. For generations, gilts have earned investors more than equities. The primary advantage of equity income has traditionally been one can get a rising income stream, as opposed to the flat income stream offered by gilts. Yet now the situation has reversed, equity income offers both higher yields and a rising stream of income. Apocalyptic fears as to the global e...