Elite Radar: Guinness Emerging Markets Equity Income

Best performing EM fund in the spotlight

When it comes to investing for income, the temptation for investors is to stick to the UK – after all, our dividend-paying culture is long-established and generous. But prospects for income seekers overseas are improving.

While interest rates on cash have remained stubbornly low since the Global Financial Crisis, company dividends around the world have almost doubled in the past decade, according to Janus Henderson's Global Dividend Index. The forces driving emerging market debt returns There is also growing political support in many countries for companies to improve their governance and return money to shareholders in the form of dividends - the two often coming hand in hand. This is especially the case in emerging markets.  Emerging economies are often linked more with growth than with income, bu...