Time for dividend visibility

It is in fund groups' best interest to make dividend income growth tables available as total return tables

Unit trust and Oeic fund groups - usually no slouches in satisfying and appealing to the vast and growing group of people with money to invest - are missing an opportunity to draw more attention to dividend income. However, with a few exceptions, the unit trust industry, including its associates and affiliates (fund statistics and rating firms, intermediary fund commentators, and investment journalists), seems institutionally inhibited from using uniquely proven precepts. There is an established case for the double merits of dividends: their contribution to total return growth and their v...