Global dividends to hit new record in 2022

2021 saw global dividends strongly recover, surging 14.7% from 2020. However, the latest Janus Henderson Global Dividend Index predicts that payouts will rise even higher. The report found that a quarter of the steep increase in dividends in 2021 came from just nine companies, eight of which are banks or miners. Overall, banks and miners delivered three-fifths of the $212bn increase in 2021. The mining sector distributed $96.6bn in 2021, with BHP becoming the world's largest dividend payer. This is almost double the previous record from 2019 and ten times more than during the sector's...