Contrarian Investor: The impact of our dividend fetish

'Obsession with dividends benefits the wealthy'

It has been a bumper few weeks for world class research reports and white papers trying to explain the strange, populist times we are living in.

The stand-out paper is from a US research outfit called the Brookings Institution called Mortality and Morbidity in the 21st Century. It is co-authored by the husband and wife team of Anne Case and...