Global dividends in 2020
A recent report showed that global dividend payments held up much better than those in the UK in 2020. For investors in UK shares and funds investing in UK companies, 2020 was a grim year when it came to dividends. The pandemic cast a long shadow over the pay outs to investors: Early on, the Bank of England effectively stopped all the major UK banks, including those mainly focused overseas, from paying dividends. The timing of the Bank’s decision meant that the first dividend