Equity income: Time to find uncorrelated strategies in the closed-ended world

Alternative routes to dividend income

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It has become increasingly difficult to find value among equity income stocks as investors, starved of income from traditional sources like bonds and deposit accounts, and liberated pensioners searching for an alternative to crummy old annuities, have turned to equities to make up the shortfall.

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