No company pays out more than the Australian-British mining group BHP. He is currently the largest dividend payer in the world at $ 12.5 billion.
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Frankfurt, Düsseldorf In some places, the Covid-19 pandemic looks like it has been overcome. That is true of company distributions, which should please shareholders. According to a study by the British fund provider Janus Henderson, the sum of global dividend payments in the third quarter of 2021 increased by a good fifth compared to the previous year – to $ 403.5 billion, which is a new record.
The asset managers now expect the distributions for the year as a whole to return to the level they were before the corona crisis. The study is available to the Handelsblatt.
“The dividends are recovering faster than expected. It is driven by improved corporate balance sheets and growing optimism, ”said Ben Lofthouse, senior equity fund manager at Janus Henderson.
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