Gill Hutchison, head of investment research at The Adviser Centre, takes a closer looking at challenges and opportunities for the sector during an eventful 12 months.
Ultra-low interest rates around the world have spurred a search for income that has extended investors' risk exposures - both down the market capitalisation scale and across to overseas markets that would not previously have been considered, or indeed been available. Income-oriented products are available in most equity sectors nowadays, but the more popular port of call has been the Investment Association (IA) Global Equity Income sector, which was established in 2012 to cater for a growing number of dividend-focused funds, which were then residing in the Global sector. One of the ma...
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