dividends

A torrid start to the year for global stockmarkets has heightened concerns about the contagion effect of China's problems on the wider Asia Pacific region, and in particular its "maturing" dividend culture.

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Neptune's George Boyd-Bowman, manager of the Global Income fund, assesses the impact of Abenomics on corporate Japan.

Threat to market support

Kirill Pyshkin, fund manager at Mirabaud Asset Management, says the recent underperformance of global high dividend stocks is unusual, so should investors be taking advantage of the buying opportunity?

Mark Barnett, head of UK equities at Invesco Perpetual and manager of the Edinburgh investment trust, analyses the growing pressures on listed companies from a number of sources.