In an ultra-low-interest-rate environment, dividend investing has become increasingly popular as investors flee lower-yielding portfolios for higher-yielding stocks. In a scenario of faltering growth, with central banks’ asset purchase programs shaping the pattern of government benchmark yields, the hunt for yield dictates the investment agenda in a prolonged scenario of near-zero interest rates and negative yields at the short end of yield curves of high-quality paper.

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