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Merian Global Investors' Richard Buxton
UK equity fund heavyweights Richard Buxton, Gervais Williams and Alan Custis are among the investors expecting recent high-profile dividend cuts to mark a “profound change” for investors, with investor pay-outs set to shrink permanently when the coronavirus-induced crisis subsides.
It follows news on Thursday (30 April) that Royal Dutch Shell would be cutting its dividend by two-thirds, in the first such move for the world's largest dividend payer since the Second World War. Shell...
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