Stocks with growing dividends best way to offset inflation

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Newton's Simon Nichols discusses the best ways to counterbalance inflationary pressures.

March saw the second anniversary of this cycle's market bottom, and over the last two years we have seen an upward trend in equity markets driven by stimulative policy and economic recovery. We are now at the stage where inflation is becoming problematic; emerging markets were weak around the turn of the year as policy was tightened in some regions in response. Indeed, policy tightening in Europe and the UK is now expected by the market this year despite the latest disappointing growth in the UK economy and the "peripheral elephants in the room" plaguing the growing European core. Inv...