Well-run companies the key to long-term health of ailing income sector

The UK Equity Income sector has been battered by waves of bad news for the last year or more. Invest...

The UK Equity Income sector has been battered by waves of bad news for the last year or more. Investors are starting to question its future and even one or two are predicting its demise. The main attraction of this sector has been its ability to perform relatively well in periods of uncertainty when compared to its growth-orientated cousins. Unfortunately, the sectors these funds invest in have been hammered - banks, retail, property and the building sectors. Combined, they have been destroyed in the fallout from this sub-prime mortgage debacle. In other words, they have fallen more tha...