Yesterday (Tue 2nd May), the Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust paid out it’s monthly dividend of 2.7p to shareholders.
http://www.fandc.com/foreign-and-colonial-investment-trust/
Companies % of Portfolio
Amazon 1.4
UnitedHealth 1.2
Alphabet 1.1
Microsoft 1.1
Utilico Emerging Markets 0.9
Facebook 0.8
BP 0.8
Priceline 0.8
Philip Morris 0.7
Apple 0.7
Total assets: £3.6 billion
http://otp.investis.com/clients/uk/fandc/rns/regulatory-story.aspx?cid=521&newsid=860565
The total number of voting rights that can be exercised in the Company is: 545,024,660
Thus:
545,024,660 x £0.027 = £14,715,665.82
That is £14m in dividend payments
http://www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk/shareshop/security.cgi?csi=10192&action=
A yield of 1.7%