Crazbe7 wrote:Lootman wrote:I suspect that many HYPs have performed close to the index, since the names in them are typically the biggest names in the index anyway. The real problem has been the FTSE-100 itself, which has done nothing since 1999, other than dividends.
Since the low of the global financial crisis the FTSE-100 has about doubled from 3,800 or so. The S&P 500 is up nearly seven-fold in the same time, from 666 to around 4,500. If you are fishing in a pond with very few fish, you won't do as well regardless of your skill level.
But you are not comparing the same thing. You are comparing dividend income v growth. Your argument would be more persuasive if you compared dividend growth in the FTSE-100 v S&P 500.
No, I was comparing two indices, minus dividends and FX.
In terms of dividend growth I would also expect the US to have done better, simply because it was coming from a much lower base and from a much higher level of dividend cover and earnings growth. But I cannot be bothered to look it up, can you?
The only metric where I can see the UK doing better is in total nominal amounts of dividends paid out. But even that will crossover at some point.