Income-producing unit trusts are brilliant because if you can accept capital values will be volatile for a while, your dividend income will always be higher than what you get in the bank.
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When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.
I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn't pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very simple philosophy.
An investor in Duke Energy is expecting a dividend payment. That's roughly 70 to 75 percent of the earnings I produce. The business that goes with that level of dividend is a business that has more predictability, more stability.
Trust is central to an economy that works.
In capital we trust. Capital is our savior, our holy grail, our fountain of youth, or at least health, for banks.
In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust.
I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.
I'm not a trust-fund type.
The Wellcome Trust is a hugely important organisation, and it is vital that its fundraising continues unabated.
If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.
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