Two-year dividend famine is set to continue

Stock market experts are warning of another year of dividend famine as some of Britain’s biggest dividend mainstays struggle to maintain payments to shareholders.

Dividends from British-listed companies fell by £10 billion, or 15 per cent, last year to £56.9 billion and, while they may creep up this year, they will still fall well short of the £66 billion distributed in 2008, according to the Capita Registrars Dividend Monitor.

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