Investment trusts to consider for investors seeking yield

With dividends being slashed in all major markets, equity-income investors have to consider alternatives. Here are the best options.

Royal Dutch Shell’s decision to slash its dividend last week has severely rattled equity-income investors. Dividends are being cut to the bone across multiple sectors and markets, sometimes at regulators’ insistence. And there’s no reason to think that it might get any better in the short to medium term. Earnings have fallen off a cliff and taken dividends with them. A fifth of both Euro Stoxx 50 (the index of eurozone blue chips) and FTSE 100 businesses have already cancelled their payouts.

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David C. Stevenson
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David Stevenson has been writing the Financial Times Adventurous Investor column for nearly 15 years and is also a regular columnist for Citywire. He writes his own widely read Adventurous Investor SubStack newsletter at davidstevenson.substack.com

David has also had a successful career as a media entrepreneur setting up the big European fintech news and event outfit www.altfi.com as well as www.etfstream.com in the asset management space. 

Before that, he was a founding partner in the Rocket Science Group, a successful corporate comms business. 

David has also written a number of books on investing, funds, ETFs, and stock picking and is currently a non-executive director on a number of stockmarket-listed funds including Gresham House Energy Storage and the Aurora Investment Trust. 

In what remains of his spare time he is a presiding justice on the Southampton magistrates bench.