{"id":357,"date":"2013-10-28T08:33:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T08:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=357"},"modified":"2013-10-28T08:33:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T08:33:47","slug":"emerging-markets-paying-dividends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Emerging Markets: Paying Dividends."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the FTSE 100, the UK flagship index of the 100 largest companies, <strong>5 PLC&#8217;s paid about 36% of all the dividends paid<\/strong>. Incredible to see the reliance of pension funds and income investors of a few companies.<br \/>\nBut one thing is sure for dividend paying companies, they are able to pay cash to investors which is a clear sign of good management and corporate governance. The ability to manage the business and generate cash.<\/p>\n<p>In Emerging Markets, like <strong>India, Brazil<\/strong> etc, companies too are now able to pay dividends, showing a level of maturity in the market. Also one has to note that law and politics are an issue, so holding shares in say the <strong>Brazilian energy giant, Petrobas is lucrative, as in Brazil companies have to pay by law 25% (at least) of their profits in dividend payment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An amazing snippet I have found, is that there are about <strong>18,000 listed companies in Asia (this excludes Japan, New Zealand &amp; Australia), of which nearly 9,000 paid dividends to shareholders in the past 12 months<\/strong>. Perhaps one can make an assumption that there is the realisation that many emerging markets are not so emerging anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the FTSE 100, the UK flagship index of the 100 largest companies, 5 PLC&#8217;s paid about 36% of all the dividends paid. Incredible to see the reliance of pension funds and income investors of a few companies. But one thing is sure for dividend paying companies, they are able to pay cash to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}