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While the return of bank dividends is a positive development, with the spectre of inflation looming, investors are increasingly looking to alternative sources for income.
The return of bank dividends is a pivotal moment in the UK’s emergence from the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic, but the country’s shareholder distributions are set to remain subdued for some time, forcing investors to maintain the search for alternative sources of income.
The Bank of England's financial stability report, published on Tuesday (13 July), confirmed that the "extraordinary guardrails on shareholder distributions are no longer necessary", citing the encouraging...
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