Global Equity Income

Nick Clay, alternate manager on the Newton Global Higher Income fund, has said the Federal Reserve may yet take further monetary easing measures instead of the expected tightening.

Guinness Asset Management is to close the 'Z" share class on its Global Equity Income fund to new investment as of the end of April.

‘No-names’ like we were might struggle today

M&G has written to investors in its £9.5bn Global Dividend fund and acknowledged "there may well have been some complacency" around underperforming stocks in 2014.

This year has been a difficult one for many active funds, but, as ever, a select group of portfolios continue to be backed en masse by buyers looking to deliver outperformance for clients.

The dearth of value opportunities in Western equity markets alongside a host of other issues leaves emerging market equities as the last man standing. Should income seekers change their focus?

Global equity income funds must face up to the prospect of switching sectors in 2015 as the Investment Management Association (IMA) begins to monitor rolling three-year yields.

Invesco Perpetual Global Opportunities

Angry workers and tax-hungry governments pose the biggest risks to equity income investors, Henderson Global Investors' Ben Lofthouse has said.

Global dividends jumped 11.7% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2014, according to Henderson's global dividend index.