Dividends don’t end at Dover

Income investors who rely on UK stocks and funds are missing out on the fastest-growing source of income in the world – the dividends of Asia-Pacific companies.

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Japanese payouts have jumped by 144% since 2009
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Dividends make a huge difference to returns. The Barclays Equity Gilt Study 2018 shows that if you had invested £100 in UK equities in 1899, and not reinvested the dividend income, your money would now be worth £203. But if you had reinvested all your dividends, the stake would have grown to £34,758.

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Marina Gerner is an award-winning journalist and columnist who has written for the Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Economist, The Guardian and Standpoint magazine in the UK; the New York Observer in the US; and die Bild and Frankfurter Rundschau in Germany.

Marina is also an adjunct professor at the NYU Stern School of Business at their London campus, and has a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Her first book, The Vagina Business, deals with the potential of “femtech” to transform women’s lives, and will be published by Icon Books in September 2024.

Marina is trilingual and lives in London.