Richard Hughes

UK Equity Income Fund Manager

Number of years in the market33

Favourite reading / watchingThe Money Game by Adam Smith. My predecessor on Recovery Fund, David Tucker, gave it to me to read after I had been appointed to succeed him. He is not the Wealth of Nations author but that is also worth a read. Film- Manhattan.

Ideal dinner party guestsBob Dylan, so we’ll need someone who can sing, Amy Winehouse. P. G. Wodehouse to make us laugh and of course another Welshman- Dylan Thomas, who I am sure will get along fine with Amy.

If I weren’t a fund manager, I would be a… Journalist on Private Eye

Thank Brexit for your income!

2 Feb 2017

by Richard Hughes

When I blogged on this topic in February last year, I sounded a note of caution that 2016 was unlikely to be plain sailing for income investors. In the event, despite an uncertain start, income-seeking investors experienced another good year. Companies paid out £84.8 billion in ordinary dividends,… Read the article

Incoming! A challenging year ahead for UK dividends

3 Feb 2016

by Richard Hughes

2015 was another bumper year for income-oriented investors with companies paying out over £80 billion in ordinary dividends and an additional £5.6 billion in special dividends. 2016 looks unlikely to be plain sailing with income investors facing some difficult decisions and therefore needing to consider less traditional sources of dividends.

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