It has been a turbulent few years for UK income investors.
Since 2014, those focusing on high-yielding UK stocks will have suffered through an oil price slump, a flurry of supermarket dividend cuts, a collapse in mining shares, an EU referendum that plunged the financial sector into disarray, and a Corbyn-induced sell-off in utilities. Franklin Templeton's Morton: Things are not as bad as they seem for UK equities Stocks with high dividends generally fall into the value category, and in fact our current bull market marks the longest ever period of underperformance for value stocks vs growth stocks. Oil and mining stocks may have recovered...
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