With advisers re-examining the importance of dividends in overall returns, Rayner Spencer Mills Research's Ken Rayner looks at the benefits of an international approach.
The Global Equity Income sector comprises funds which invest at least 80% of their assets globally in equities. Funds must be diversified by geographical region and intend to achieve a historic yield on the distributable income in excess of 110% of the MSCI World index yield at the fund’s year end. Global funds allow an investor to gain worldwide exposure, managed at both a strategic and tactical level, without requiring the levels of capital needed for a sector specific portfolio. Global income funds have come about as a result of the gradual change in focus of many companies in the ...
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