“Anyone who is in that market should be concerned that there is a lack of earnings visibility and therefore there is a lack of visibility surrounding dividends, so you should be cautious and build more fat into your calculations.”
“Anyone who is in that market should be concerned that there is a lack of earnings visibility and therefore there is a lack of visibility surrounding dividends, so you should be cautious and build more fat into your calculations.”
— Christopher Childs, a fund manager at F&C Asset Management in London, on the current challenges in the European dividends market surrounding potential earnings and tax.
Picking the wrong deal to finance can lead to public opprobrium. Banks must abandon the fiction that they are mere conduits for their clients if they care about reputational risk