Three stocks to channel your inner Mr Darcy

Professional investor Guy Monson picks three stocks that he hopes will secure a healthy income.

Each week, a professional investor tells us where he'd put his money. This week:Guy Monson of the Sarasin Global Higher Dividend Fund.

Jane Austen's Mrs Bennet knew the importance of securing investment income. In the early chapters of Pride and Prejudice, she remarks upon the attention drawn by "the report which was in circulation within five minutes of [Mr Darcy's] entrance, of his having ten thousand a year". Anticipating, perhaps, the deflation of the middle half of the 19th century, she foresaw that her daughters must prioritise security of income over security of capital if they were to live their lives in the style she hoped for.

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Guy Monson is CIO and co-manager of the Sarasin Global Higher Dividend Fund