21st June 2011

BlackRock: Equity Income

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Income-seeking investors face something of a conundrum. Interest rates in the UK have remained at a three- hundred-year low for over two years but yields on cash deposits and government bonds (gilts) cannot keep pace with the rate of inflation, which is well in excess of the Bank of England's two per cent target. In such an environment, income-seeking investors have found it increasingly hard to achieve their income targets by traditional means, while inflation has eroded the real value of their portfolios.

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