Small but beautiful or big and ugly: Where should income seekers look?

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The mega-cap income payers have been battered recently, so should investors be seeking out the small but beautiful divi-payers? Unicorn's Simon Moon explains why.

From the UK’s general election in May to tumultuous commodity prices and the renewed possibility of Greece exiting the eurozone, equity investors are facing a number of challenges. Against this backdrop, it is increasingly looking like 2015 will be a stock picker’s market. The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee recently voted unanimously to keep interest rates at record lows, as the two MPC members who have been voting for a rate rise since August, Ian McCafferty and Martin Weale, abandoned their push. With the prospect of the first interest rate hike now being pushed back...

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