Are you interested in investing in dividend paying companies? Our equity income funds aim for sustainable income and long-term growth
Quality Equity Income Funds
What is Dividend Investing?
Dividend investing involves focusing on companies that provide regular dividend payments out of their profits to investors. This style of investing can come with multiple benefits:
Consistent income
- Dividend-paying stocks provide regular payments, often quarterly or biannually, creating a reliable stream of income.
- The regular payments of dividends mean investors earn returns without needing to sell their shares, even during market downturns.
Stability
- Companies that pay dividends are usually well-established with strong financial foundations and can be a source of stability and resilience during volatile market periods.
The compounding effect
- Reinvested dividends can be used to buy more shares, which in turn generate additional dividends. This can lead to gradual but considerable long-term portfolio growth through compounding.
- Compounding can also turn a fall in share price into an opportunity for better value investments. Learn more about this from our dividend investing insight.
What is Equity Income?
If investors are interested in gaining the benefits of dividend investing in their portfolio while avoiding the need to conduct company research themselves, equity income funds are worth considering.
These professionally managed funds use a dividend-investing strategy and are specialised in selecting companies with dividend histories. Investors gain the benefits of dividend income as the fund collects dividends from its holdings and passes them on, often as cash distributions or reinvested shares.
Risk: The Funds are actively managed equity funds with the benchmark indices used as a comparator benchmarks only. The value of an investment and the income from it can fall as well as rise as a result of market and currency movement, and you may not get back the amount originally invested.
How do they differ?
The Guinness Equity Income range applies an approach to dividend investing that focuses on high-quality companies that can increase their dividends as they grow. Our Equity Income fund range is diverse, allowing investors to leverage growth opportunities both globally and regionally while maintaining an emphasis on quality and consistent dividend income.
For investors seeking long term income
This investing style, which generates income from equity investments, is geared toward investors seeking long-term income capital appreciation. Our quality equity income approach also offers investors downside protection by investing in solid and mature companies that can withstand economic volatility.
Our Equity Income Funds
The Guinness Asian Equity Income strategy invests in high-quality dividend-paying companies in the Asia Pacific region.
The Guinness Emerging Markets Equity Income strategy aims to provide investors with capital growth and income by investing in emerging markets worldwide.
The Guinness European Equity Income strategy targets income and capital growth and provides exposure to dividend-paying companies in Europe (excluding UK).
The Guinness Global Equity Income strategy is designed to provide income and capital growth by investing in companies that can pay sustainable, growing dividends.
The Guinness Pan-European Equity Income strategy targets income and capital growth and provides exposure to dividend-paying companies in Europe (including UK).
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Equity Income Insights
Chinese stocks: how the trade war affects the present and future
Why Dividends Matter to Investors
Consumer Staples: Sector & Stocks
Why Choose Guinness
We construct high-conviction portfolios of 30-40 ‘best ideas’, unconstrained by benchmark considerations. Most of our portfolios take an equal-weight approach and are rebalanced periodically or on flows.
The clarity of our approach and consistent methodology make the characteristics of the portfolio easier to measure. This starts with the definition of the investment universe and the business attributes we look for, proceeds to the structured analytical framework and systematic approach we employ, and culminates in the construction and maintenance of our portfolios. As a result, the behaviour of a portfolio in different market conditions, while not guaranteed, becomes more predictable.
Our senior employees and fund managers have worked together for many years.
We are employee-owned with a significant long-term holding held by the Guinness family.
We target equal weights in our portfolios, unconstrained by benchmarks.
How to Invest with Guinness
We aim to make it simple to invest in our funds. All our funds are open to direct investment via an application form. In addition, they are widely available on investment platforms and are eligible for UK investors' ISAs & SIPPs.
Invest in our funds through a range of investment platforms (fund dealing websites/supermarkets). Dealing through platforms is suitable for all types of investment, including via an ISA or SIPP.
Invest in the funds directly via an application form sent with payment to the funds' administrators.