starter wrote:Ideas are tough art this l the moment. I bought quite a lot in March because the sweetshop was open and my portfolio is the expected sea of red, which is OK, but there have been a while heap of dividend cuts and even if they do start paying paying out at lower rates, I'm still a bit worried about being burned. Executives have got the idea that they can get away with cutting the cost of capital and there's not really anywhere for investors to go.
I have some money sitting on the sidelines and I'm not sure that there are enough FTSE dividend stocks left now without crowding into the same sectors. So what I'm very slowly looking at is:
1) Widening to FTSE 250 dividend stocks
2) Relooking at dividend interruptors like banks - although I've got a few in my portfolio already and there is a lot more speculation than I like here
3) Repointing to dividend growth stocks paying pitiful current dividends - I'm in my late forties so I don't need the dividends now
4) Going to large caps abroad which means I don't have to compromise on capitalisation, dividend history or current yield and I get more diversification but there's an admin overhead
Starter,
you could try posting this on the High Yield Strategies - General, and you might get a wider range of responses
tuk020