Amid an ever-volatile market landscape, Jaisal Pastakia, investment manager at Heartwood Investment Management, looks at the five things income investors should learn from the coronavirus outbreak.
Amid an ever-volatile market landscape, Jaisal Pastakia, investment manager at Heartwood Investment Management, looks at the five things income investors should learn from the coronavirus outbreak. It has been a challenging few years for investors looking to draw income from financial markets. Amid a multi-year trend of low yields in bond markets, and investor disinterest in dividend-paying shares in stock markets, 2020's economic crash led to the sharpest cuts to global dividends in history (see chart in gallery above). Following the worst of March's market falls, companies were p...
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